In History's Wake

Name: In History's Wake
Brand: Wesleyan University Press
SKU: 9780819575616
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The Last Trap Fishermen of Rhode Island

Автор: Markham Starr

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For as long as people have lived along Rhode Island's meandering coast, the ocean has provided them...

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Автор

Markham Starr

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

2015

страници

200

EAN

9780819575616

ISBN

0819575615

Enbook ID

09236008

Издател

Wesleyan University Press

Теглоt

998

Размери

226 x 279 x 13

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For as long as people have lived along Rhode Island's meandering coast, the ocean has provided them with a ready supply of food. Whether Native American or European transplants, fishermen sought to move beyond capturing individual fish to ensnaring entire schools. Searching for increasingly efficient ways to capture their prey, the trapping technologies that they invented evolved over time, and primitive stake traps gave way to fykes and weirs, much as they had along the entire New England coast. Fishermen from Rhode Island experimented with new designs capable of withstanding the punishing wind and waves, eventually creating a unique floating trap system. Today only four companies still use this ancient but effective technique. Author Markham Starr spent time on the docks, went to sea with the fishermen, and photographed them at work. His striking black-and-white images are accompanied by oral histories, poignantly documenting the industry. This book documents a tradition now hundreds of years old, the spirit and work ethic that drives these fishermen, and the austere beauty of working life on the coast.

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