Four Thousand Hooks

Four Thousand Hooks
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Publisher : University of Washington Press
Total Pages : 283
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ISBN-10 : 9780295804354
ISBN-13 : 0295804351
Rating : 4/5 (54 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Four Thousand Hooks by : Dean J. Adams

Download or read book Four Thousand Hooks written by Dean J. Adams and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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