Lobster Coast Rebels, Rusticators, and the Struggle for a Forgotten Frontier

Name: Lobster Coast Rebels, Rusticators, and the Struggle for a Forgotten Frontier
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ISBN: 9780143035343

ISBN-10: 0143035347

ISBN-13: 9780143035343

Edition: 2004

Authors: Colin Woodard

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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…

Book details

List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 4/26/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.42" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English