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The Last Fish Tale : The Fate of the Atlantic and Survival in Gloucester, America's Oldest Fishing Port and Most Original Town by Mark Kurlansky is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Last Fish Tale : The Fate of the Atlantic and Survival in Gloucester, America's Oldest Fishing Port and Most Original Town about?
The bestselling author of Cod, Salt, and The Big Oyster has enthralled readers with his incisive blend of culinary, cultural, and social history. Now, in his most colorful, personal, and important book to date, Mark Kurlansky turns his attention to a disappearing way of life: fishing--how it has thrived in and defined one particular town for centuries, and what its imperiled future means for the rest of the world.The culture of fishing is vanishing, and consequently, coastal societies are changing in unprecedented ways. The once thriving fishing communities of Rockport, Nantucket, Newport, Mystic, and many other coastal towns from Newfoundland to Florida and along the West Coast have been forced to abandon their roots and become tourist destinations instead. Gloucester, Massachusetts, however, is a rare survivor. The livelihood of America's oldest fishing port has always been rooted in the life and culture of commercial fishing.The Gloucester story began in 1004 with the arrival of the Vikings. Six hundred years later, Captain John Smith championed the bountiful waters off the coast of Gloucester, convincing new settlers to come to the area and start a new way of life. Gloucester b
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- Author
- Mark Kurlansky
- Publisher
- New York: Ballantine Books
- Published
- 2008
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780345487278
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Agriculture, Fiction, History
- Rating
- 3.71 / 5 (500 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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