Conquest of the Seas
by Bowen, Frank C
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG/Good only (see notes) /Good only
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Fitzwilliam , New Hampshire, United States
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Synopsis
With its spectacular beaches and charming towns, Cape Cod is known around the world as a vacation spot and a summer retreat for the well-to-do. But there is another Cape Cod, a hidden, hardscrabble, year-round world whose hunter-gatherer economy dates back to the Bay Colony. The world of the independent fisherman is one of constant peril, of arcane folkways and expert knowledge, of calculated risk and self-reliance -- and of freedom won daily through backbreaking, solitary work. It is a way of life deep in the American grain. Haunted by the numbers of family fishermen who have recently been forced to abandon the profession, Richard Adams Carey spent a year among a handful of men who stubbornly refuse to do so. Reminiscent of the work of William Warner and Joseph Mitchell, AGAINST THE TIDE is a masterly profile of four New England fishermen in which every page opens onto something more profound: maritime history, maritime ecology, and the poetic celebration of a special American place.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- MAIN002153I
- Title
- Conquest of the Seas
- Author
- Bowen, Frank C
- Illustrator
- illus
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG/Good only (see notes)
- Jacket Condition
- Good only
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- Publisher
- McBride
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1940
- Keywords
- 4to, 423pp, y, dfb
- Bookseller catalogs
- maritime;
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