| Four Thousand Hooks: A True Story of Fishing and Coming of Age on the High Seas of Alaska Contributor(s): Adams, Dean J. (Author) |
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ISBN: 029599844X ISBN-13: 9780295998442 Publisher: University of Washington Press OUR PRICE: $103.95 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Technology & Engineering | Fisheries & Aquaculture - Travel | United States - West - Pacific (ak, Ca, Hi, Or, Wa) - Nature | Animals - Fish |
| Dewey: 639.209 |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 6" W x 9" (1.29 lbs) 264 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Western U.S. - Chronological Period - 1970's - Cultural Region - Pacific Northwest - Geographic Orientation - Alaska |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 website: http: //www.fourthousandhooks.com/ |