An absorbing adventure story and a rich ethnography of a way of life and work
Part One: The sea is fluid, elusive, hard to grasp 1 The Grant; 2 The Raft; 3 Family; 4 Goin' North; 5 Kodiak; 6 Freddy; 7 Throwing the Lines; 8 Alitak; 9 The Cannery Spy; 10 Setting Gear Part Two: First day of fishing 11 Awakening; 12 Death; 13 Living with Rigor Mortis; 14 Beyond Exhaustion Part Three: Adaptation 15 Circumstances; 16 Surroundings; 17 The Crew; 18 Mom and Dad; 19 The Night; 20 Storm Day; 21 How to Jog; 22 Sand Point; 23 Letters to Home; 24 Caught by Fishing; 25 Metamorphosis; 26 Personal Factors; 27 End of the Line; 28 Loco-motion Part Four; Layover in Kodiak 29 Unloading; 30 Hashish, Flips, and a Whore Part Five: The final trip 31 Sandman Reefs; 32 Primal Extremes; 33 Everything but South; 34 Deckload Part Six: Mayday 35 Orange; 36 The Third Charm; 37 The Ill-Equipped Ship; 38 "Chips"; 39 Cigarettes and Twice-Caught Fish; 40 Re-entry; 41 Grandpa's Model Glossary; Acknowledgments
Dean Adams went on to become the captain of his own fishing boat and to earn bachelor's and master's degrees from the School of Aquatic and Fishery Science at the University of Washington. He and his family live in Seattle and Kerikeri, New Zealand.
"A real-life account of a young man's first season working as a crew member on his uncle's commercial fishing boat in the 1970s. Adams tells of the drunken shore leave, the surprising gentleness and understanding between crew members, and the rough but careful teaching of any new crew member to be part of a team upon which one sometimes had to depend for one's survival." Margaret Willson, author of Dance Lest We All Fall Down: Breaking the Cycles of Poverty in Brazil and Beyond "I relived my own past reading Four Thousand Hooks. The way Adam's described seeing things for the first time through the eyes of a greenhorn crew member -the sights and smells, what it's like to really feel work and exhaustion, being on your own as a young man in Alaska - brought back memories I didn't know I had." -Sig Hansen, Captain of the Northwestern as seen on Deadliest Catch "The well honed prose tells a good story and one is encouraged to turn the pages to see what happens next, but it always remains true to the story of life afloat. It is a detailed account of the pursuit and capture of fish sometimes longer than a man is tall and weighing maybe 400 lbs. Halibut are very impressive and the very largest examples of those brought back to Hull by the trawling fleet always caused a stir on the dockside...This is not only a very readable book but an important record of a particular type of fishing." - Arthur G. Credland, Mariners Mirror
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