Four Thousand Hooks : A True Story of Fishing and Coming of Age on the High Seas of Alaska /

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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 n...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Adams, Dean J.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2012]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Alaska
Ficher, ...
Adams, Dean J.
Travel.
Teenage boys.
Manners and customs.
Longlining (Fisheries)
Halibut fisheries.
Fishers.
Coming of age.
Coming of age > United States.
Teenage boys > United States > Biography.
Fishers > Alaska > Biography.
Longlining (Fisheries) > Alaska.
Halibut fisheries > Alaska.
Fishers > United States > Biography.
United States.
Alaska.
Alaska > Description and travel.
Alaska > Social life and customs > 20th century.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The sea is fluid, elusive, hard to grasp
  • First day of fishing
  • Adaptation
  • Layover in Kodiak
  • The final trip
  • Mayday.

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