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by Nancy Lord


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For the past eighteen summers, Nancy Lord and her partner Ken have made a living, and made a life, fishing for salmon off the west side of Cook Inlet on the southern coast of Alaska. In Fishcamp, Lord provides a nuanced and engrossing portrait of their days and months in camp at the inlet. Nancy Lord celebrates a great good place--Cook Inlet, Alaska, where she and her partner have made a life together for more than twenty years. With poetic cadence and magical tone, Lord writes of her life from June to August, days filled with the mending of nets, the muscle-wrenching labor of the catch, the exquisite pleasure of an improvised hot-tub, and the often subtle beauty of the inlet's flora and fauna.Woven throughout Lord's adventures is the deeper history of the region's stories and legends of the native Denaina people; anecdotes about past and current residents; and descriptions of their neighbors, both human and animal.

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It's spring, and Ken and I are eager to get to fishcamp.

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  • Title Fishcamp Life on an Alaskan Shore
  • Author Nancy Lord
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st Counterpoint
  • Pages 284
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Catapult, Washington, D.C.
  • Date 2000-03-16
  • ISBN 9781582430706 / 1582430705
  • Weight 0.69 lbs (0.31 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.36 x 5.48 x 0.74 in (21.23 x 13.92 x 1.88 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Pacific Northwest
    • Geographic Orientation: Alaska
    • Topical: Ecology
  • Library of Congress subjects Lord, Nancy, Cook Inlet Region (Alaska) - History
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 99058244
  • Dewey Decimal Code 979.83

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  • Reference and Research Bk News, 02/01/2001, Page 52

About the author

Nancy Lord lives in Homer, Alaska. From her many years of commercial salmon fishing and, later, work as a naturalist and historian on adventure cruise ships, she's explored in both fiction and nonfiction the myths and realities of life in the north.

Among her published books are three collections of short stories and five works of literary nonfiction, including the memoir Fishcamp, the cautionary Beluga Days, and the front-lines story of climate change, Early Warming. Lord was honored as Alaska Writer Laureate for 2008-10, a term during which she traveled throughout the state to promote Alaska writers, writing, and libraries.

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