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Working the Sea
Author | : Wendell Seavey |
Publisher | : North Atlantic Books |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Lobster fisheries |
ISBN | : 9781556435225 |
"A first-person account of life in the fishing communities of coastal Maine"--Provided by the publisher.
Fishers At Work, Workers At Sea
Author | : David Griffith |
Publisher | : Temple University Press |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2002-01-30 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781566399111 |
Based on a sample survey of 102 households. Focuses on Puerto Rican fishers who also engage in paid employment in the USA.
The Sea We Swim In
Author | : Frank Rose |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2024-02-13 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781324074557 |
A practical guide to "narrative thinking," and why it matters in a world defined by data.
Sea State
Author | : Tabitha Lasley |
Publisher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 2021-12-07 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0063030853 |
A Recommended Read from: Vogue * USA Today * The Los Angeles Times * Publishers Weekly * The Week * Alma * Lit Hub A stunning and brutally honest memoir that shines a light on what happens when female desire conflicts with a culture of masculinity in crisis In her midthirties and newly free from a terrible relationship, Tabitha Lasley quit her job at a London magazine, packed her bags, and poured her savings into a six-month lease on an apartment in Aberdeen, Scotland. She decided to make good on a long-deferred idea for a book about oil rigs and the men who work on them. Why oil rigs? She wanted to see what men were like with no women around. In Aberdeen, Tabitha became deeply entrenched in the world of roughnecks, a teeming subculture rich with brawls, hard labor, and competition. The longer she stayed, the more she found her presence had a destabilizing effect on the men—and her. Sea State is on the one hand a portrait of an overlooked industry: “offshore” is a way of life for generations of primarily working-class men and also a potent metaphor for those parts of life we keep at bay—class, masculinity, the transactions of desire, and the awful slipperiness of a ladder that could, if we tried hard enough, lead us to security. Sea State is on the other hand the story of a journalist whose professional distance from her subject becomes perilously thin. In Aberdeen, Tabitha gets high and dances with abandon, reliving her youth, when the music was good and the boys were bad. Twenty years on, there is Caden: a married rig worker who spends three weeks on and three weeks off. Alone and in an increasingly precarious state, Tabitha dives into their growing attraction. The relationship, reckless and explosive, will lay them both bare.
The Green Glass Sea
Author | : Ellen Klages |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2008-05-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 144063713X |
It is 1943, and 11-year-old Dewey Kerrigan is traveling west on a train to live with her scientist father—but no one, not her father nor the military guardians who accompany her, will tell her exactly where he is. When she reaches Los Alamos, New Mexico, she learns why: he's working on a top secret government program. Over the next few years, Dewey gets to know eminent scientists, starts tinkering with her own mechanical projects, becomes friends with a budding artist who is as much of a misfit as she is—and, all the while, has no idea how the Manhattan Project is about to change the world. This book's fresh prose and fascinating subject are like nothing you've read before.
20,000 Jobs Under the Sea
Author | : Torrance R. Parker |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : |
A profile of how commercial diving helped coastal development everywhere man has moved to establish centers of trade and commerce with a focus on the history of commercial diving in southern California since the late 1800s.
We Are the Ocean
Author | : Epeli Hau‘ofa |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 217 |
Release | : 2008-01-29 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0824865545 |
We Are the Ocean is a collection of essays, fiction, and poetry by Epeli Hau‘ofa, whose writing over the past three decades has consistently challenged prevailing notions about Oceania and prescriptions for its development. He highlights major problems confronted by the region and suggests alternative perspectives and ways in which its people might reorganize to relate effectively to the changing world. Hau‘ofa’s essays criss-cross Oceania, creating a navigator’s star chart of discussion and debate. Spurning the arcana of the intellectual establishments where he was schooled, Hau‘ofa has crafted a distinctive—often lyrical, at times angry—voice that speaks directly to the people of the region and the general reader. He conveys his thoughts from diverse standpoints: university-based analyst, essayist, satirist and humorist, and practical catalyst for creativity. According to Hau‘ofa, only through creative originality in all fields of endeavor can the people of Oceania hope to strengthen their capacity to engage the forces of globalization. “Our Sea of Islands,” “The Ocean in Us,” “Pasts to Remember,” and “Our Place Within,” all of which are included in this collection, outline some of Hau‘ofa’s ideas for the emergence of a stronger and freer Oceania. Throughout he expresses his concern with the environment and suggests that the most important role that the “people of the sea” can assume is as custodians of the Pacific, the vast area of the world’s largest body of water.
Working the Sea, Updated and Expanded
Author | : Wendell Seavey |
Publisher | : North Atlantic Books |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2010-07-13 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1556439148 |
Working the Sea is the story of a Maine fisherman’s life, a collection of memories and teachings from a master storyteller. Author Wendell Seavey, who grew up in the 1940s in the fishing village that inspired this story, avoids the overly romantic or picturesque language of other fishing and working-class narratives, writing in a true Downeast Yankee voice and candidly describing both the joys and hardships of the fishing life. Seavey is firmly rooted in the fishing traditions of his community and family, and the book reflects these deep roots. But his perspectives and observations are unique and at times unexpected as he travels across the United States, engages in psychic and spiritual activity, develops an environmental philosophy of life, and meets a host of memorable countercultural characters. Seavey also shares practical lessons about approaching life’s “insurmountable obstacles” and getting past them, and about his transformation from a “fisherman-user” to a “fisherman-ecologist” striving to be part of the cycle of life. This new edition includes an account of the author’s two-year sojourn in Texas as well as several other new stories.