Four Thousand Hooks
University of Washington Press (Verlag)
978-0-295-99197-9 (ISBN)
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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.
Dean Adams went on to become the captain of his own fishing boat and to earn bachelor's and master's degrees from the School of Aquatic and Fishery Science at the University of Washington. He and his family live in Seattle and Kerikeri, New Zealand.
Part One: The sea is fluid, elusive, hard to grasp 1 The Grant; 2 The Raft; 3 Family; 4 Goin' North; 5 Kodiak; 6 Freddy; 7 Throwing the Lines; 8 Alitak; 9 The Cannery Spy; 10 Setting Gear Part Two: First day of fishing 11 Awakening; 12 Death; 13 Living with Rigor Mortis; 14 Beyond Exhaustion Part Three: Adaptation 15 Circumstances; 16 Surroundings; 17 The Crew; 18 Mom and Dad; 19 The Night; 20 Storm Day; 21 How to Jog; 22 Sand Point; 23 Letters to Home; 24 Caught by Fishing; 25 Metamorphosis; 26 Personal Factors; 27 End of the Line; 28 Loco-motion Part Four; Layover in Kodiak 29 Unloading; 30 Hashish, Flips, and a Whore Part Five: The final trip 31 Sandman Reefs; 32 Primal Extremes; 33 Everything but South; 34 Deckload Part Six: Mayday 35 Orange; 36 The Third Charm; 37 The Ill-Equipped Ship; 38 "Chips"; 39 Cigarettes and Twice-Caught Fish; 40 Re-entry; 41 Grandpa's Model Glossary; Acknowledgments
| Zusatzinfo | 1 maps, 1 map |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Seattle |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 522 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Naturführer | |
| Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-295-99197-6 / 0295991976 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-295-99197-9 / 9780295991979 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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