||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| coming of age sea adventure|By Max M. Stalnaker|Fifteen years old and crewing on an alaskan halibut schooner for the first time away from home. This is in the 70's. Things change and much of this is just not there anymore. This may be the only author who will ever write truly of this life. And it is his true story. And he captures the voice of his fifteen year old self an|From Booklist|Adams was 15 years old in 1972 when he signed on to the halibut schooner Grant. The boat used to be his grandfather’s before he sold it to Adams’ uncle Jack. It was a summer of firsts: f
As Four Thousand Hooks opens, an Alaskan fishing schooner is sinking. It is the summer of 1972, and the sixteen-year-old narrator is at the helm. Backtracking from the gripping prologue, Dean Adams describes how he came to be a crew member on the Grant and weaves a tale of adventure that reads like a novel--with drama, conflict, and resonant portrayals of halibut fishing, his ragtag shipmates, maritime Alaska, and the ambiguities of family life.
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You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Four Thousand Hooks: A True Story of Fishing and Coming of Age on the High Seas of Alaska | Dean J. Adams.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.
