Four Thousand Hooks: A True Story of Fishing and Coming of Age on the High Seas of Alaska AUTH-4048686 ISBN13: 9780812978308

ISBN13: 9780812978308

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Four Thousand Hooks: A True Story of Fishing and Coming of Age on the High Seas of Alaska AUTH-4048686 ISBN13: 9780812978308As Four Thousand Hooks opens, an Alaskan fishing schooner is sinking. It is 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 on 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 family life. At