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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...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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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.