A portrait of the Gloucester fishermen—made famous by The Perfect Storm—that takes you deep inside their world.
This powerful work brings the reader along with the fishermen as they plow the treacherous sea in search of the elusive and dwindling schools of fish. Kim Bartlett lets us hear the men speak and puts us right on the boat with them. 14 b/w photographs
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This book is alive with people who live and work in a way most of us have never experienced. -- New York Times Book Review
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Kim Bartlett is a freelance writer and part-time farmer. He lives with his wife, tractors, and many farm animals on Cape Ann, Massachusetts.
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One of the Finest books,
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This review is from: The Finest Kind: The Fishermen of Gloucester (Paperback)
At the time I'm writing this, there's only one other review (negative) and it stresses that the book isn't about fishing. To some degree, that's true, but the review misses the point. The Finest Kind is about the lifestyle for generations, unfortunately one that looks like it's on its way out, of a small fishing town in New England. It's a raw narrative of the "men who go down to the sea in ships" and their daily battles with nature, the government, themselves.
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A waste of the Readers Time,
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This book is nothing more than a diary of the authors observations and has very little to do with the act of fishing.
Save your money on this one and buy Working on the Edge by Spike Walker.
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Joe Charley, New York, Rogers Street, Isle of Shoals, Cigar Joe, Fisherman's Wharf, Ocean Crest, Sea Buddy, Coast Guard, Jeffreys Ledge, Spava Bertolino, Frontiero Bros, Gloucester Marine Railways, Middle Bank, Rocky Neck, Seven Seas Wharf, Fish Exchange, Grand Manan Banks, Long Beach, Main Street, Salvi Testeverde, Star Fisheries, Boston Fish Pier, Cape Cod, Jesus Christ New!
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Joe Charley, New York, Rogers Street, Isle of Shoals, Cigar Joe, Fisherman's Wharf, Ocean Crest, Sea Buddy, Coast Guard, Jeffreys Ledge, Spava Bertolino, Frontiero Bros, Gloucester Marine Railways, Middle Bank, Rocky Neck, Seven Seas Wharf, Fish Exchange, Grand Manan Banks, Long Beach, Main Street, Salvi Testeverde, Star Fisheries, Boston Fish Pier, Cape Cod, Jesus Christ New!
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- The Old Man by Gary W. Cook on page 195
- The Georges Bank by Richard H. Backus on page 113
- The Wealth of Oceans: Environment and Development on Our Ocean Planet by Judith Gradwohl in Back Matter
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