The Finest Kind: The Fishermen of Gloucester

By Kim Bartlett

Book Overview

This powerful work brings the reader along with the fishermen as they plow the treacherous sea in search of the elusive and dwindling schools of fish. Kim Bartlett lets us hear the men speak and puts us right on the boat with them.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 039332219X
• ISBN13: 9780393322194
• Release Date: February 2002
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.6" x 7.6"

Customer Reviews

One of the Finest books

At the time I'm writing this, there's only one other review (negative) and it stresses that the book isn't about fishing. To some degree, that's true, but the review misses the point. The Finest Kind is about the lifestyle for generations, unfortunately one that looks like it's on its way out, of a small fishing town in New England. It's a raw narrative of the "men who go down to the sea in ships" and their daily battles with nature, the government, themselves.