Mike's review
The Hungry Ocean: A Swordboat Captain's Journey
by Linda Greenlaw
Mike's review
The Hungry Ocean: A Swordboat Captain's Journey by Linda Greenlaw
Mike's review
rating:
bookshelves:
american-studies,
boston,
group-dynamics
recommended for: Cape Anners
I suppose that Linda Greenlaw's account here is sort of like a complementary compendium to books like Sebastian Junger's Perfect Storm.
Unfortunately for The Hungry Ocean, I find his narrative to be far superior to Captain Greenlaw's. I kind of wish it weren't so, and that the two books were more closely comparable.
But I find that they are simply in different leagues.
Nevertheless, Captain Greenlaw has a couple great passages strung throughout her narrative. Some of my favorites include:
"...anyone who chooses to make fishing his occupation solely for the money is in the wrong business. If no thrill is experienced in catching fish, no satisfaction in going to sea and returning to shore, no pride in exclaiming "I am a fisherman," then a life on the water will be unfulfilling, perhaps even unbearable. Among the unhappy with whom I am acquainted, perhaps the most miserable people are those who fish out of necessity rather than out of a love of the...more
Unfortunately for The Hungry Ocean, I find his narrative to be far superior to Captain Greenlaw's. I kind of wish it weren't so, and that the two books were more closely comparable.
But I find that they are simply in different leagues.
Nevertheless, Captain Greenlaw has a couple great passages strung throughout her narrative. Some of my favorites include:
"...anyone who chooses to make fishing his occupation solely for the money is in the wrong business. If no thrill is experienced in catching fish, no satisfaction in going to sea and returning to shore, no pride in exclaiming "I am a fisherman," then a life on the water will be unfulfilling, perhaps even unbearable. Among the unhappy with whom I am acquainted, perhaps the most miserable people are those who fish out of necessity rather than out of a love of the...more
