Four Thousand Hooks : A True Story of Fishing and Coming of Age on the High Seas of Alaska.cDean J. Adams
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Author: Dean J. Adams
Page Count: 264 pages
Published Date: 20 Sep 2012
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Publication Country: Washington, United States
Language: English
Type: eBook
ISBN: 9780295991979
File size: 18 Mb
Download Link: Four Thousand Hooks A True Story of Fishing and Coming of Age on the High Seas of Alaska
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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 tells how he came to be a crew member on the Grant and unfolds 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-interested in ocean adventures, commercial fishing, maritime life, and the Northwest Coast.
Dean Adams went on to become the captain of his own commercial fishing vessel and obtained BS and MS degrees in Fisheries Science from the University of Washington.
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