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Four Thousand Hooks

- A True Story of Fishing and Coming of Age on the High Seas of Alaska
Af: Dean J. Adams Engelsk Hardback

Four Thousand Hooks

- A True Story of Fishing and Coming of Age on the High Seas of Alaska
Af: Dean J. Adams Engelsk Hardback
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As Four Thousand Hooks opens, an Alaskan fishing schooner is sinking. It is the summer of 1972, and the sixteen-year-old narrator is at the helm. Backtracking from the gripping prologue, Dean Adams describes how he came to be a crew member on the Grant and weaves a tale of adventure that reads like a novel--with drama, conflict, and resonant portrayals of halibut fishing, his ragtag shipmates, maritime Alaska, and the ambiguities of family life.

At sea, the Grant''s crew teach Dean the daily tasks of baiting thousands of longline hooks and handling the catch, and on shore they lead him through the seedy bars and guilty pleasures of Kodiak. Exhausted by twenty-hour workdays and awed by the ocean''s raw power, he observes examples of human courage and vulnerability and emerges with a deeper knowledge of himself and the world.

Four Thousand Hooks is both an absorbing adventure story and a rich ethnography of a way of life and work that has sustained Northwest families for generations. This coming of age story will appeal to readers including young adults and anyone interested in ocean adventures, commercial fishing, maritime life, and the Northwest coast.

Visit the author''s webpage on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fourthousandhooks/

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As Four Thousand Hooks opens, an Alaskan fishing schooner is sinking. It is the summer of 1972, and the sixteen-year-old narrator is at the helm. Backtracking from the gripping prologue, Dean Adams describes how he came to be a crew member on the Grant and weaves a tale of adventure that reads like a novel--with drama, conflict, and resonant portrayals of halibut fishing, his ragtag shipmates, maritime Alaska, and the ambiguities of family life.

At sea, the Grant''s crew teach Dean the daily tasks of baiting thousands of longline hooks and handling the catch, and on shore they lead him through the seedy bars and guilty pleasures of Kodiak. Exhausted by twenty-hour workdays and awed by the ocean''s raw power, he observes examples of human courage and vulnerability and emerges with a deeper knowledge of himself and the world.

Four Thousand Hooks is both an absorbing adventure story and a rich ethnography of a way of life and work that has sustained Northwest families for generations. This coming of age story will appeal to readers including young adults and anyone interested in ocean adventures, commercial fishing, maritime life, and the Northwest coast.

Visit the author''s webpage on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fourthousandhooks/

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 282
ISBN-13: 9780295998442
Indbinding: Hardback
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ISBN-10: 029599844X
Kategori: US Pacific Northwest
Udg. Dato: 14 sep 2015
Længde: 0mm
Bredde: 152mm
Højde: 229mm
Forlag: University of Washington Press
Oplagsdato: 14 sep 2015
Forfatter(e): Dean J. Adams
Forfatter(e) Dean J. Adams

Kategori US Pacific Northwest

ISBN-13 9780295998442

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Hardback

Sider 282

Udgave

Længde 0mm

Bredde 152mm

Højde 229mm

Udg. Dato 14 sep 2015

Oplagsdato 14 sep 2015

Forlag University of Washington Press