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Bezig met laden... LOBSTER CHRONICLES, THE: LIFE ON A VERY SMALL ISLAND (origineel 2002; editie 2003)door Linda Greenlaw
Informatie over het werkThe Lobster Chronicles: Life on a Very Small Island door Linda Greenlaw (2002)
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Lobster Fisheries The Lobster Chronicles by Linda Greenlaw Have read other books in this series and appreciate every word. After 17 years away at sea swordfishing she needs to return home to her homeland that has 70 in the winter months. She wants the rest of it now: husband, house, kids, etc. Love hearing all about small island living as I grew up such an island off the coast of RI. Many had to go off island to work daily til they retired. Like how the meetings go and especially the woman sitting knitting. Hard life I've seen it myself, good times and tragic things occur. Very informative and real life. I received this book from National Library Service for my BARD (Braille Audio Reading Device). I loved this memoir that gives us a bit of everything - small town life & politics, personal quandaries, family relationships, and the adventure of the sea. I still don't empathize with the appeal of living like that, though - it really does take a special kind of person, and maybe independent lobstermen should be allowed to pass on the way that the proverbial buggy-whip makers did.
Hauling lobster traps in the sheltered waters of Maine's Penobscot Bay with her father as sternman is a day in the sun compared with the isolation and dangers offshore. Greenlaw was at sea, a captain in the swordfish fleet, during the ''perfect storm,'' and was among the last people to have radio contact with the doomed Andrea Gail. She wrote an earlier book about the difficult swordfishing life. But island life has its charms - and its conflicts - and Greenlaw writes as enthusiastically about them as she did about her offshore experiences in the well-received ''The Hungry Ocean.'' The real, and very pleasant, surprise of ''The Lobster Chronicles'' is how well Greenlaw captures the small-town, waterside dramas of the Lighthouse Committee and the Island Lobster Association. Onderscheidingen
The author details her return to Isle au Haut, a tiny Maine island with a population of seventy year-round residents, many of whom are her relatives, to describe small-town life in a lobster-fishing village. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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