The Lobster Coast: Rebels, Rusticators, and the Struggle for a Forgotten Frontier (平装)

基本信息出版社:Penguin (Non-Classics) (2005年4月26日)平装:384页正文语种:英语ISBN:0143035347条形码:9780143035343产品尺寸及重量:21.3 x 13.7 x 2.3 cm ; 295 gASIN:0143035347

商品描述内容简介This lively book reveals a little known culture that predates the Pilgrims and has remained true to the earliest version of the American Dream: an egalitarian, self-reliant republic. The self-sufficient lobstermen of the Maine coast are models of environmental prudence: at a time when the fishing industry is in crisis, they have conserved the bounty of their waters, even as the once-humble lobster has become a coveted delicacy. How denizens of the coast achieved this balance, even as they withstood assaults from everyone from French raiders to rapacious land speculators, makes for a "stellar informal history ... a primer for conservation and the effects of bad politics" (The Kingston Observer).媒体推荐A beautifully considered history…Woodard’s admiration for lobster culture is stirring…[Mainers’] feisty pluck remains undiminished in the face of obstacles. --Newsday

A feast…Woodard uses the lobster to tell the whole history of Maine. --Working Waterfront

A triumph --Bookpage

Delves deeply and reflectively into the history of the coast of Maine and its people. --The Boston Globe

Highly engaging, intelligent --Down East

Lively --The Economist

Lucid…engaging --Publishers Weekly

Thought-provoking…Woodard is a talented writer, a skilled journalist….lively reading for history buffs…an important book for any Maine lover’s bookshelf. --Bangor Daily News

Woodard doesn’t disguise his pique. Maine is worth fighting for-as is any village with distinctly etched local character and community. --The Christian Science Monitor

[A] well-researched and well-written cultural and ecological history of stubborn perseverance. --USA Today