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 Denaiina people; anecdotes about past and current residents; descriptions of their neighbors, both human and animal, who like Lord and her partner, co-exist with fish.
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Höhe: 203 mm
Breite: 127 mm
Dicke: 17 mm
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978-1-58243-070-6 (9781582430706)
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Nancy Lord lives in Homer, Alaska. From her many years of commercial salmon fishing and, later, work as a naturalist and historian on adventure cruise ships, she’s explored in both fiction and nonfiction the myths and realities of life in the north.
Among her published books are three collections of short stories and five works of literary nonfiction, including the memoir Fishcamp, the cautionary Beluga Days, and the front-lines story of climate change, Early Warming. Lord was honored as Alaska Writer Laureate for 2008-10, a term during which she traveled throughout the state to promote Alaska writers, writing, and libraries.
