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Against the Tide: The Fate of the New England Fisherman
Against the Tide The Fate of the New England Fisherman
Author: Richard Adams Carey
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 arc...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780618056989
ISBN-10: 061805698X
Publication Date: 6/15/2000
Pages: 384
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Publisher: Mariner Books
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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An interesting examination of the both the nuts and bolts and the politics of the New England fishing industry. Sometimes very technical, but author Carey's prose is both supple and sometimes even rhapsodic.


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