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Washington State Univ Pr, 1996-08-01. Paperback. Very Good. 8x6x0. Minor shelf wear, binding tight, pages clean and unmarked. Barbara Oakley's riveting portrayal of espionage, lust, comic adventure, hard work - and harder drinking - brings to life a little-known episode of American history when two cold-warring nations got together to fish the north Pacific. The joint fishing venture saw a brief period of success during the 1980s when Americans caught fish within the two-hundred mile maritime limit, then passed them off at sea to Russian processing trawlers. Oakley served as a translator aboard the processing ships, and Hair of the Dog is her true-life story of volatile Russian and American fishermen forced to work together.Barbara Oakley proved to be a resourceful translator - one who could silence the KGB with a squirt gun or handle a mob of drunken Russians seeking nirvana at K-Mart in downtown Portland. She is an equally imaginative author who has provided one of those rarest of book finds:…
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Hair of the Dog: Tales from Aboard a Russian Trawler Paperback - 1996
by Barbara A. Oakley
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- Title Hair of the Dog: Tales from Aboard a Russian Trawler
- Author Barbara A. Oakley
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 190
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Washington State University Press, Pullman WA
- Date 1996-01
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780874221350 / 0874221358
- Weight 0.79 lbs (0.36 kg)
- Dimensions 8.96 x 6.01 x 0.53 in (22.76 x 15.27 x 1.35 cm)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 96-853
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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