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Highlights
- For the past eighteen summers, Nancy Lord and her partner Ken have made a living, and made a life, fishing for salmon off the west side of Cook Inlet on the southern coast of Alaska.
- About the Author: Nancy Lord lives in Homer, Alaska.
- 284 Pages
- Nature, Essays
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Book Synopsis
For the past eighteen summers, Nancy Lord and her partner Ken have made a living, and made a life, fishing for salmon off the west side of Cook Inlet on the southern coast of Alaska. In Fishcamp, Lord provides a nuanced and engrossing portrait of their days and months in camp at the inlet. 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.About the Author
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.Dimensions (Overall): 8.36 Inches (H) x 5.48 Inches (W) x .74 Inches (D)
Weight: .69 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 284
Genre: Nature
Sub-Genre: Essays
Publisher: Catapult
Format: Paperback
Author: Nancy Lord
Language: English
Street Date: March 16, 2000
TCIN: 92586216
UPC: 9781582430706
Item Number (DPCI): 247-06-3273
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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