Fishcamp Life on an Alaskan Shore - Softcover

Lord, Nancy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1582430705 ISBN 13: 9781582430706

Publisher: Counterpoint, 2000

Synopsis

Nancy Lord celebrates a great good place-Cook Inlet, Alaska, where she and her partner have made a life together for more than twenty years.. With poetic cadence and magical tone, Lord writes of her life from June to August, days filled with the mending of nets, the muscle-wrenching labor of the catch, the exquisite pleasure of an improvised hot-tub, and the often subtle beauty of the inlet's flora and fauna.Woven throughout Lord's adventures is the deeper history of the region's stories and legends of the native Denaina people; anecdotes about past and current residents; and descriptions of their neighbors, both human and animal.

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Review:

Nancy Lord writes like an angel about the hard, often lonely, and always rewarding work of fishing along an agate-strewn Alaskan inlet, where she and her partner do what she calls the "sustaining work" of landing evasive salmon far less efficiently than do the neighborhood grizzly bears. That sustaining work grows ever more difficult, she writes, as it becomes more unusual for individual fishers to market their goods in the Lower 48, the province of large-scale food distributors and of the "pale imitation that packages well." Reading this lovely book may well make you hungry--and not a little envious of Lord, who seems to have found a little corner of paradise in the backwoods of the far north.

About the Author:

Nancy Lord's previous books include Survival, a short-story collection. She lives in Homer, Alaska, where she writes, fishes commercially, and promotes marine conservation.

About this edition

• Publisher: Counterpoint
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1582430705
• ISBN 13: 9781582430706
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288