The Lobster Coast

Description:

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).

subjects: Social life and customs,  Frontier and pioneer life,  Nature,  Nonfiction,  Biography,  History,  Maine, social life and customs,  Maine, history,  Maine, biography,  Manners and customs,  Lobster fisheries,  Maine, history, local,  Atlantic coast

Places: Atlantic Coast,  Atlantic Coast (Me.),  Maine,  Maine (Verenigde Staten)