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Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
"Set in the tiny Native village of Egegik on the shores of Alaska's Bristol Bay, Bill Carter's Red Summer is the thrilling story of one man's journey from novice to seasoned fisherman over the course of four beautiful, brutal summers in one of the earth's few remaining wild places. As millions of salmon race toward their annual spawning grounds, Carter learns the ancient, backbreaking trade of the set net fisherman, one of the most exhilarating and...
Author
Publisher
University of Washington Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
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 novel-with drama, conflict, and resonant portrayals of halibut fishing, his ragtag shipmates, maritime Alaska, and the ambiguities of family life.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Sig Hansen is a star of the Discovery Channel's Deadliest Catch, one of the most successful series in the history of cable TV--but these weatherworn fishermen have stories that don't come through on TV. For Sig Hansen and his brothers, commercial fishing is as much a part of their Norwegian heritage as their names. Descendents of the Vikings who roamed and ruled the northern seas for centuries, the Hansens' connection to the sea stretches from Alaska...
Series
Ironweed film club volume no. 43
Publisher
Ironweed Film Club
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Two films look at the plights of two very different communities engaged in very similar fights for survival against mineral industries. When clouds clear: Set in the isolated cloud forest of the northern Andes Mountains, this award-winning documentary delves into one remote community's radical resistance to a proposed copper mine that would level and destroy their way of life forever. Red gold: At the headwaters of the Kvichak and the Nushagak Rivers...
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