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Author Adams, Dean J.

Title Four thousand hooks : a true story of fishing and coming of age on the high seas of Alaska / Dean Adams.

Publication Info. Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2012]

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Description 1 online resource (270 pages)
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Contents Cover -- CONTENTS -- PART ONE: THE SEA IS FLUID, ELUSIVE, HARD TO GRASP -- 1 The Grant -- 2 The Raft -- 3 Family -- 4 July 5, 1972 -- 5 Kodiak -- 6 Freddy -- 7 Throwing the Lines -- 8 Alitak -- 9 The Cannery Spy -- 10 Setting Gear -- PART TWO: FIRST DAY OF FISHING -- 11 Awakening -- 12 Death -- 13 Living with Rigor Mortis -- 14 Beyond Exhaustion -- PART THREE: ADAPTATION -- 15 Circumstances -- 16 Surroundings -- 17 The Crew -- 18 Mom and Dad -- 19 The Night -- 20 Storm Day -- 21 How to Jog -- 22 Sand Point -- 23 Letters to Home -- 24 Caught by Fishing -- 25 Metamorphosis.
26 Personal Factors -- 27 End of the Line -- 28 Loco-motion -- PART FOUR: LAYOVER IN KODIAK -- 29 Unloading -- 30 Hashish, Flips, and a Whore -- PART FIVE: THE FINAL TRIP -- 31 Sandman Reefs -- 32 Primal Extremes -- 33 Everything but South -- 34 Deckload -- PART SIX: MAYDAY -- 35 Orange -- 36 The Third Charm -- 37 The Ill-Equipped Ship -- 38 "Chips" -- 39 Cigarettes and Twice-Caught Fish -- 40 Reentry -- 41 Grampa's Model -- Glossary -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Acknowledgments.
Summary 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.
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Subject Adams, Dean J.
Adams, Dean J.
Alaska.
Ficher, ...
Fishers -- United States -- Biography.
Fishers.
United States.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Halibut fisheries -- Alaska.
Halibut fisheries.
Alaska.
Longlining (Fisheries) -- Alaska.
Longlining (Fisheries)
Fishers -- Alaska -- Biography.
Teenage boys -- United States -- Biography.
Coming of age -- United States.
Alaska -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Alaska -- Description and travel.
Teenage boys.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
Coming of age.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- General.
Manners and customs.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Personal Memoirs.
Travel.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Autobiographies.
Autobiographies.
Added Title 4,000 hooks
Other Form: Print version: Four thousand hooks Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2012] 9780295991979 (cloth : alk. paper) (DLC) 2012019070
ISBN 9780295804354 ebook
0295804351
9780295991979 cloth : alkaline paper
0295991976