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Four thousand hooks : a true story of fishing and coming of age on the high seas of Alaska /

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 n...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Adams, Dean J.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2012]
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • CONTENTS
  • PART ONE: THE SEA IS FLUID, ELUSIVE, HARD TO GRASP
  • 1 The Grant
  • 2 The Raft
  • 3 Family
  • 4 July 5, 1972
  • 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 Reentry
  • 41 Grampa's Model
  • Glossary
  • A
  • B
  • C
  • D
  • E
  • F
  • G
  • H
  • I
  • J
  • L
  • M
  • O
  • P
  • Q
  • R
  • S
  • T
  • U
  • V
  • W
  • Acknowledgments.