The Doryman's Reflection - Paul Molyneaux

The Doryman's Reflection

A Fisherman's Life

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Buch | Hardcover
312 Seiten
2017
Skyhorse Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-944824-22-8 (ISBN)
16,20 inkl. MwSt
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For over three centuries, Raynes's ancestors invested their futures in the lives of fish. They learned to think like fish. Few today could match his skills, but they don't have to. Technology has edged Raynes out, and his fishing legacy will sadly die with him.
What happens when the oceans are emptied of all their fish? What happens when three hundred years of human knowledge and expertise disappear before the onslaught of the technology-driven world?

The Doryman’s Reflection is simply the most accurate and eloquent account of what transpired in the New England fisheries over the past half century, as told by the people who lived it, including author Paul Molyneaux.

Fishermen survive as relics, the last hunter-gatherers among us. Their boats, crammed with ropes and nets, carry the mystique of a nearly forgotten world ruled by the elements. Now an accomplished writer, Molyneaux as a young man journeyed to Maine with no experience and a dream of working on a boat. This is the story of his apprenticeship with Bernard Raynes, one of Maine’s last independent commercial fishermen.

The Doryman’s Reflection speaks to those who want to know what really happened, and what will happen, on our oceans.

Part coming-of-age memoir, part biography, it is a very personal account of what families in this dying but important industry face each day. Molyneaux shares his own history as a young man seeking the fisherman’s life in Maine and Alaska. Originally published in 2005, it has been thoroughly updated to cover the events of the past ten years.

Told through the life of the colorful and engaging Bernard Raynes, The Doryman’s Reflection is alive and real and powerful—far from a dry, pedantic treatise on the economics of commercial fishing.

Paul Molyneaux began working in commercial fishing as a "lumper," unloading scallop boats, in 1976. He now writes about fisheries and marine issues for The New York Times, Yankee Magazine, and National Fisherman. He and his family split their time between Mexico and Maine.

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 24 B&W photos
Verlagsort New York, NY
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 526 g
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Freizeit / Hobby Angeln / Jagd
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Geschichte / Politik Regional- / Landesgeschichte
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Natur / Technik
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Naturwissenschaften Biologie Limnologie / Meeresbiologie
Weitere Fachgebiete Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
ISBN-10 1-944824-22-7 / 1944824227
ISBN-13 978-1-944824-22-8 / 9781944824228
Zustand Neuware
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