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Author : James Brendan Connolly
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (333 download)
Download or read book The Book of the Gloucester Fishermen written by James Brendan Connolly and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Brendan Connolly
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (447 download)
Download or read book The Book of the Gloucester Fishermen written by James Brendan Connolly and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narrative essays on fishermen, or 'bankers' in Gloucester, Massachusetts.
Author : Kim Bartlett
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393322194
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (221 download)
Download or read book The Finest Kind written by Kim Bartlett and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2002-02 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A portrait of the Glouchester fishermen made famous in "The Perfect Storm." 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 readers right on the boat with them. 14 photos.
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ISBN 13 : 1885435614
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (854 download)
Download or read book Gloucester Fishermen's Wives Cookbook written by and published by . This book was released on 2005-10-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since their founding in 1969, the Gloucester Fishermen's Wives Association has been a powerful force for the conservation of New England's precious fishing grounds and heritage. The "Fishermen's Wives" are consummate cooks as well as dedicated activists. This book celebrates their cuisine and politics. Read the stories of cooking, courage, and love; savor the photographs, and feast on the foods that have nurtured Gloucester's seafaring families for generations, with 173 of the members' traditional European and American recipes for seafood and a variety of other appetizers, entrees and desserts. The Fishermen's Wives have helped improve safety standards on U.S. vessels, created the first subsidized health plan for fishermen, established a marine sanctuary at Stellwagen Bank, and have helped to protect the health of the ocean and the future of the fishing industry. The GFWA erected the statue that now overlooks Gloucester Harbor honoring the "faith, diligence, and fortitude" of all fishermen's wives, qualities that arise in part from their strong Sicilian-American, Portuguese, Irish, and Newfoundland cultural traditions. A portion of every book sold goes to the Gloucester Fishermen's Wives Association to fund their efforts towards the conservation of New England's fishing grounds and improvement of conditions for fishermen and their families.
Author : R. Salve Testaverde
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1450069452
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Memoirs of a Gloucester Fisherman written by R. Salve Testaverde and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2004-08-05 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memoirs of a Gloucester Fisherman is one man’s story of a lifetime spent seafaring out of Gloucester – a personal record, an intimate summing-up, of unusual candor and strength. At the same time, Salve Testaverde’s account represents an important document in the history of commercial fishing over the past fifty years. In the span of his working life, which began in 1931 on his father’s boat, R. Salve Testaverde has seen the coastal fishery of New England change, and adapt to change, relentlessly. The story of his career traces the ups and downs of the Gloucester fleet as shifting market conditions and developing technology challenge its men to adapt and survive. But Memoirs of a Gloucester Fisherman is also a story of the love between a woman and a man, of a marriage that flourished through the hardships and uncertainties of the Depression, the War, and, of his wife and the home she made for her family brings us deep inside the man himself – his doubts, his joys, his ways with the people he loves. Just as indelibly, we see the Testaverdes against the sharply drawn backdrop of Gloucester’s fishing community. In scenes of extraordinary vitality, Salve Testaverde describes the daily life of the Fort neighborhood as it was in the ‘20s; the first of the famous fiestas in honor of St. Peter; the competition and especially the camaraderie among the men of the fleet, culminating in their triumphant cooperative effort to create the Fisherman’s Wharf. In Salve Testaverde’s song of himself, we hear the true voice of a community and a way of life. Memoirs of a Gloucester Fisherman is an unforgettable book.
Author : Sebastian Junger
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393040166
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book The Perfect Storm written by Sebastian Junger and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1997 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A true story of men against the sea.
Author : John N. Morris
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ISBN 13 : 9781567924763
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (247 download)
Download or read book Alone at Sea written by John N. Morris and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With over seventy photographs and maps, an extensive glossary of fishing terms, and a detailed chronology of the Gloucester fleet, including all the fishermen and vessels lost at sea since 1693, 'Alone at Sea' is a comprehensive record of life in the area.
Author : George Henry Procter
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (26 download)
Download or read book The Fisheries of Gloucester from the First Catch by the English in 1623, to the Centennial Year, 1876 written by George Henry Procter and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter K. Prybot
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book White-tipped Orange Masts written by Peter K. Prybot and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Netting shrimp in the icy waters off Cape Ann, hauling up lobster two hundred miles offshore, in the 1970s Gloucester's eastern-rig side trawlers were at the top of a dying and dangerous industry. In the tough competition for the daily catch, Gloucester's dragger fleets were the best. They went out farther, stayed out longer, and risked all as the fishing grounds grew lean. Author Peter Prybot captures the glory days of the draggers through recollections and his own firsthand observations as a lifelong Gloucester fisherman. Terrible weather, good fishing, bad fishing, great days and greater danger-- these are true stories from the decks of the celebrated trawler fleet that is no more.
Author : Kitty Parsons
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (611 download)
Download or read book Gloucester Sea Ballads written by Kitty Parsons and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sylvanus Smith
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (211 download)
Download or read book The Gloucester Fisherman, Gloucester, Massachusetts written by Sylvanus Smith and published by . This book was released on 191? with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mark Kurlansky
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307369803
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)
Download or read book Cod written by Mark Kurlansky and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2011-03-04 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wars have been fought over it, revolutions have been spurred by it, national diets have been based on it, economies have depended on it, and the settlement of North America was driven by it. Cod, it turns out, is the reason Europeans set sail across the Atlantic, and it is the only reason they could. What did the Vikings eat in icy Greenland and on the five expeditions to America recorded in the Icelandic sagas? Cod -- frozen and dried in the frosty air, then broken into pieces and eaten like hardtack. What was the staple of the medieval diet? Cod again, sold salted by the Basques, an enigmatic people with a mysterious, unlimited supply of cod. Cod is a charming tour of history with all its economic forces laid bare and a fish story embellished with great gastronomic detail. It is also a tragic tale of environmental failure, of depleted fishing stocks where once the cod's numbers were legendary. In this deceptively whimsical biography of a fish, Mark Kurlansky brings a thousand years of human civilization into captivating focus.
Author : Mark Kurlansky
Publisher : Workman Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1523507098
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (235 download)
Download or read book World Without Fish written by Mark Kurlansky and published by Workman Publishing Company. This book was released on 2018-06-15 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A KID’S GUIDE TO THE OCEAN "Can you imagine a world without fish? It's not as crazy as it sounds. But if we keep doing things the way we've been doing things, fish could become extinct within fifty years. So let's change the way we do things!" World Without Fish is the uniquely illustrated narrative nonfiction account—for kids—of what is happening to the world’s oceans and what they can do about it. Written by Mark Kurlansky, author of Cod, Salt, The Big Oyster, and many other books, World Without Fish has been praised as “urgent” (Publishers Weekly) and “a wonderfully fast-paced and engaging primer on the key questions surrounding fish and the sea” (Paul Greenberg, author of Four Fish). It has also been included in the New York State Expeditionary Learning English Language Arts Curriculum. Written by a master storyteller, World Without Fish connects all the dots—biology, economics, evolution, politics, climate, history, culture, food, and nutrition—in a way that kids can really understand. It describes how the fish we most commonly eat, including tuna, salmon, cod, swordfish—even anchovies— could disappear within fifty years, and the domino effect it would have: the oceans teeming with jellyfish and turning pinkish orange from algal blooms, the seabirds disappearing, then reptiles, then mammals. It describes the back-and-forth dynamic of fishermen, who are the original environmentalists, and scientists, who not that long ago considered fish an endless resource. It explains why fish farming is not the answer—and why sustainable fishing is, and how to help return the oceans to their natural ecological balance. Interwoven with the book is a twelve-page graphic novel. Each beautifully illustrated chapter opener links to the next to form a larger fictional story that perfectly complements the text.
Author : Joseph E. Garland
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786256169
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (862 download)
Download or read book Lone Voyager written by Joseph E. Garland and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like countless Gloucester fishermen before and since, Howard Blackburn and Tom Welch were trawling for halibut on the Newfoundland banks in an open dory in 1883 when a sudden blizzard separated them from their mother ship. Alone on the empty North Atlantic, they battled towering waves and frozen spray to stay afloat. Welch soon succumbed to exposure, and Blackburn did the only thing he could: He rowed for shore. He rowed five days without food or water, with his hands frozen to the oars, to reach the coast of Newfoundland. Yet his tests had only begun. So begins Joe Garland’s extraordinary account of the hero fisherman of Gloucester. Incredibly, though Blackburn lost his fingers to his icy misadventure, he went on to set a record for swiftest solo sailing voyage across the Atlantic that stood for decades. Lone Voyager is a Homeric saga of survival at sea and a thrilling portrait of the world’s most fabled fishing port in the age of sail.—Print Ed.
Author : Barry Fisher
Publisher : Tilbury House Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780884482338
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (823 download)
Download or read book A Doryman's Day written by Barry Fisher and published by Tilbury House Publishers. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We'd be hard put to decide whether Barry Fisher is better at fishing or storytelling. The three stories in this book are rollicking gems, salty as a flake of cod set out to dry. "A Wharf Rat's Tale" takes us to Gloucester, Massachusetts, a town where, "if you didn't go fishing, you got out of town." It was a fascinating, adventurous place for a boy in the late '30s, as young Barry and his pals pick up odd jobs on the wharves, repair a beat-up dory, hang out with the schooner crews, and take up fishing themselves, catching the fattest flounders at the sewer outfall in the harbor. Barry Fisher went offshore dory-fishing for real when he was eighteen, and "A Doryman's Day," he says now, is "as accurate as my old mind can make it." He describes fishing longline trawl gear from Grand Banks dories launched off the deck of a schooner in wonderful detail and paints a vivid picture of a working day in a fishery straight out of history. A few years later, he went on a late-season swordfishing trip, dory-fishing from a schooner with a crew betting against the weather and the odds that they'd come home with a catch. "Mysterious Ways of the Lord, or How Captain Jack Brant of the Swordfishing Schooner lorna b Found God in a Split Second and then Achieved Salvation on the Northern Edge of George's Bank" gives you just a hint of the story to come.
Author : Linda Greenlaw
Publisher : Hachette Books
ISBN 13 : 0786871350
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (868 download)
Download or read book The Hungry Ocean written by Linda Greenlaw and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2001-08-01 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The term fisherwoman does not exactly roll trippingly off the tongue, and Linda Greenlaw, the world's only female swordfish boat captain, isn't flattered when people insist on calling her one. "I am a woman. I am a fisherman. . . I am not a fisherwoman, fisherlady, or fishergirl. If anything else, I am a thirty-seven-year-old tomboy. It's a word I have never outgrown." Greenlaw also happens to be one of the most successful fishermen in the Grand Banks commercial fleet, though until the publication of Sebastian Junger's The Perfect Storm, "nobody cared." Greenlaw's boat, the Hannah Boden, was the sister ship to the doomed Andrea Gail, which disappeared in the mother of all storms in 1991 and became the focus of Junger's book. The Hungry Ocean, Greenlaw's account of a monthlong swordfishing trip over 1,000 nautical miles out to sea, tells the story of what happens when things go right -- proving, in the process, that every successful voyage is a study in narrowly averted disaster. There is the weather, the constant danger of mechanical failure, the perils of controlling five sleep-, women-, and booze-deprived young fishermen in close quarters, not to mention the threat of a bad fishing run: "If we don't catch fish, we don't get paid, period. In short, there is no labor union." Greenlaw's straightforward, uncluttered prose underscores the qualities that make her a good captain, regardless of gender: fairness, physical and mental endurance, obsessive attention to detail. But, ultimately, Greenlaw proves that the love of fishing -- in all of its grueling, isolating, suspenseful glory -- is a matter of the heart and blood, not the mind. "I knew that the ocean had stories to tell me, all I needed to do was listen." -- Svenja Soldovieri
Author : George Henry Procter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The Fishermen's Memorial and Record Book written by George Henry Procter and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
