Against the Tide: The Fate of New England Fisherman

Against the Tide: The Fate of New England FishermanAgainst the Tide: The Fate of the New England Fisherman by Richard Adams Carey With its spectacular beaches and charming towns, Cape Cod is known around the world as a vacation spot and a summer retreat for the well to do. But there is another Cape Cod, a hidden, hardscrabble, year round world whose hunter gatherer economy dates back to the Bay Colony. The world of the independent fisherman is one of constant peril, of arcane folkways and expert

Against the Tide: The Fate of the New England Fisherman by Richard Adams Carey

With its spectacular beaches and charming towns, Cape Cod is known around the world as a vacation spot and a summer retreat for the well-to-do. But there is another Cape Cod, a hidden, hardscrabble, year-round world whose hunter-gatherer economy dates back to the Bay Colony. The world of the independent fisherman is one of constant peril, of arcane folkways and expert knowledge, of calculated risk and self-reliance -- and of freedom won daily through backbreaking, solitary work. It is a way of life deep in the American grain.

Haunted by the numbers of family fishermen who have recently been forced to abandon the profession, Richard Adams Carey spent a year among a handful of men who stubbornly refuse to do so. Reminiscent of the work of William Warner and Joseph Mitchell, AGAINST THE TIDE is a masterly profile of four New England fishermen in which every page opens onto something more profound: maritime history, maritime ecology, and the poetic celebration of a special American place.

• Publisher:‎ Harper Perennial
• Paperback
• Print length:‎ 384 pages
• Item Weight:‎ 14.4 ounces
• Dimensions:‎ 5.5 x 1 x 8.25 inches