An anthropologist describes the working world of Maine lobstermen, focusing on the intricate personal network that sustains them.
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"The book is wonderfully entertaining, and the information it contained agreed with everything I have learned during a decade of summers on the Maine coast"--Wall Street Journal
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6 x 9 trim. 23 illus. 3 tables. 5 figs. 2 maps. LC 87-40506
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It's So True!,
By Abbie (downeast Maine) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Lobster Gangs of Maine (Paperback)
I live here in the midst of the coast of Maine, and this book is factual, absorbing, entertaining (to me, anyway), and historically significant. The world of the independent lobsterman is rapidly changing, but these guys are competent, tough, and they have their own code of discipline. If you want to understand better this unique part of America, this book is for you.
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This book was very pedantic but interesting. It's essentially an "academic read" [sociology], but contains enough "nuggets" of insight into life in Maine lobstering communities to be of interest to the curious reader BUT it isn't particularly "entertaining".
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Not my thing. Overly detailed.,
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I was looking for a book that broadly covered lobstering. This book is very much into the people who do lobstering and how they relate to each other and to strangers and newbies.
It's obviously a very detailed study if that is what you're looking for. I found it somewhat boring. I found this book much more interesting: "The Secret Life of Lobsters: How Fishermen and Scientists Are Unraveling the Mysteries of Our Favorite Crustacean" Trevor Corson
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Throughout the year, daily weather conditions in Maine are highly variable. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
highline fishermen, harbor gang, highline fisherman, nucleated areas, midcoastal region, dragged bait, oversize measure, mixed fishing, lobster industry, lobster fishermen, pound operators, skilled fishermen, lobster prices, metal traps, trap losses, lobster market, mainland harbors, lobster fisherman, lobster fishery, lobster fishing, primary gear, successful fishermen, layover day, wooden traps, boat price Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Harbor, Uncle George, Pemaquid Harbor, United States, Gulf of Maine, Georges Bank, Muscongus Bay, Penobscot Bay, National Marine Fisheries Service, Tenants Harbor, Maine Department of Marine Resources, Port Clyde, Round Pond, Swans Island, Big Mac, Nova Scotia, University of Maine, Boothbay Harbor, Civil War, East Coast, Maine Lobstermen's Association, Metinic Island New!
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Throughout the year, daily weather conditions in Maine are highly variable. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
highline fishermen, harbor gang, highline fisherman, nucleated areas, midcoastal region, dragged bait, oversize measure, mixed fishing, lobster industry, lobster fishermen, pound operators, skilled fishermen, lobster prices, metal traps, trap losses, lobster market, mainland harbors, lobster fisherman, lobster fishery, lobster fishing, primary gear, successful fishermen, layover day, wooden traps, boat price Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Harbor, Uncle George, Pemaquid Harbor, United States, Gulf of Maine, Georges Bank, Muscongus Bay, Penobscot Bay, National Marine Fisheries Service, Tenants Harbor, Maine Department of Marine Resources, Port Clyde, Round Pond, Swans Island, Big Mac, Nova Scotia, University of Maine, Boothbay Harbor, Civil War, East Coast, Maine Lobstermen's Association, Metinic Island New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Markets and Marketing: Monographs in Economic Anthropology No. 4 (Monographs in Economic Anthropology Series) by Stuart Plattner in Back Matter
- Class and Society by Kurt Bernd, Mayer in Back Matter
- Saint Paul by Michael Grant in Back Matter
- Kinship and Marriage: An Anthropological Perspective (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology) by Robin Fox in Back Matter
- Lobstering and the Maine Coast by Kenneth R. Martin in Back Matter
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- The Lobster Coast: Rebels, Rusticators, and the Struggle for a Forgotten Frontier by Colin Woodard on page 269, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Logic of Sufficiency by Thomas Princen in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Property Rights and Regulatory Systems for Fisheries (Fishing News Books) by David Symes on page 15, and page 186
- Fisheries Management in Crisis ("Fishing News" Books) by Kevin Crean on page 58, and Back Matter
- The Secret Life of Lobsters: How Fishermen and Scientists Are Unraveling the Mysteries of Our Favorite Crustacean by Trevor Corson in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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