{"product_id":"9780618056989","title":"Against the Tide: The Fate of the New England Fisherman","description":"\u003cbr\u003eWith its spectacular beaches and charming towns, Cape Cod is known around the world as a vacation spot and a summer retreat for the well-to-do. But there is another Cape Cod, a hidden, hardscrabble, year-round world whose hunter-gatherer economy dates back to the Bay Colony. The world of the independent fisherman is one of constant peril, of arcane folkways and expert knowledge, of calculated risk and self-reliance -- and of freedom won daily through backbreaking, solitary work. It is a way of life deep in the American grain.\u003cbr\u003e Haunted by the numbers of family fishermen who have recently been forced to abandon the profession, Richard Adams Carey spent a year among a handful of men who stubbornly refuse to do so. Reminiscent of the work of William Warner and Joseph Mitchell, AGAINST THE TIDE is a masterly profile of four New England fishermen in which every page opens onto something more profound: maritime history, maritime ecology, and the poetic celebration of a special American place.","brand":"Houghton Mifflin Harcourt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47007347048688,"sku":"9780618056989","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780618056989_p0.jpg?v=1764099462","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780618056989","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}