William B. McCloskey (1928–2016)
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William McCloskey has been a Coast Guard officer, a merchant seaman, and a crewman on several fishing boats, as well as a reporter for The Baltimore Sun and a staff member at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
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- Juridisk navn
- McCloskey, William B., Jr
- Fødselsdato
- 1928
- Dødsdag
- 2016-07-13
- Køn
- male
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Statistikker
- Værker
- 7
- Medlemmer
- 104
- Popularitet
- #184,481
- Vurdering
- 3.9
- Anmeldelser
- 3
- ISBN
- 22
The book is an interesting combination of fiction and non-fiction alternating chapters as McCloskey follows the career of Hank, college graduate and Vietnam veteran , who falls in love with fishing (for some unfathomable reason) in Alaskan waters for a variety of species. We're treated to a section on each kind of boat and species as Hank learns the skills needed for each finally (after being injured by the smashing force of a Halibut tail --I had no idea...-- they can weigh up to 400 lbs.) as submanager of a cannery, a job that displays all the intricate details of the operation and the vast quantity of material that is processed (millions of cans of salmon during an eight-week season) with the concomitant problems of managing people who don't want to be managed. He ends up as skipper on a boat so we get to see the business from that end as well. (The scenes of the boats icing up are tense and scary.)
Being a bit bizarre myself, I found the mix of technology and culture to be fascinating.
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