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Four Thousand Hooks: A True Story of Fishing and Coming of Age on the High Seas of Alaska

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As Four Thousand Hooks opens, an Alaskan fishing schooner is sinking. It’s the summer of 1972, and the sixteen-year-old narrator is at the helm. Backtracking from the gripping prologue, Dean Adams describes how he came to be a crew member at the Grant and weaves a tale of adventure that reads like a novel―with drama, conflict, and resonant portrayals of halibut fishing, his ragtag shipmates, maritime Alaska, and the ambiguities of circle of relatives life.

At sea, the Grant‘s crew teach Dean the day by day tasks of baiting thousands of longline hooks and handling the catch, and on shore they lead him during the seedy bars and guilty pleasures of Kodiak. Exhausted by twenty-hour workdays and awed by the ocean’s raw power, he observes examples of human courage and vulnerability and emerges with a deeper knowledge of himself and the world.

Four Thousand Hooks is both an absorbing adventure story and a wealthy ethnography of an approach to life and work that has sustained Northwest families for generations. This coming of age story will appeal to readers including young adults and someone excited by ocean adventures, commercial fishing, maritime life, and the Northwest coast.

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