{"product_id":"against-the-tide-the-fate-of-the-new-england-fisherman-9780618056989","title":"Against the Tide: The Fate of the New England Fisherman","description":"With its spectacular beaches and charming towns, Cape Cod is known around the world as a vacation spot and a summer retreat for the well-to-do. But there is another Cape Cod, a hidden, hardscrabble, year-round world whose hunter-gatherer economy dates back to the Bay Colony. The world of the independent fisherman is one of constant peril, of arcane folkways and expert knowledge, of calculated risk and self-reliance -- and of freedom won daily through backbreaking, solitary work. It is a way of life deep in the American grain.\u003cbr\u003e Haunted by the numbers of family fishermen who have recently been forced to abandon the profession, Richard Adams Carey spent a year among a handful of men who stubbornly refuse to do so. Reminiscent of the work of William Warner and Joseph Mitchell, AGAINST THE TIDE is a masterly profile of four New England fishermen in which every page opens onto something more profound: maritime history, maritime ecology, and the poetic celebration of a special American place.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCarey, Richard Adams:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Richard Adams Carey was born in Connecticut and educated at Harvard College. After his graduation, in 1973, he went to work in a northwestern sawmill, and he has since divided his time between Alaska and New England.","brand":"Houghton Mifflin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50917815157010,"sku":"9780618056989","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_8675e73d-470a-4913-9959-d69ecbbb152d.jpg?v=1738870479","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/against-the-tide-the-fate-of-the-new-england-fisherman-9780618056989","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}