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This lively book reveals a little known culture that predates the Pilgrims and has remained true to the earliest version of the American Dream: an egalitarian, self-reliant republic. The self-sufficient lobstermen of the Maine coast are models of environmental prudence: at a time when the fishing industry is in crisis, they have conserved the bounty of their waters, even as the once-humble lobster has become a coveted delicacy. How denizens of the coast achieved this balance, even as they withstood assaults from everyone from French raiders to rapacious land speculators, makes for a “stellar informal history ... a primer for conservation and the effects of bad politics” (The Kingston Observer).
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The Lobster Coast: Rebels, Rusticators, and the Struggle for a Forgotten Frontier
April 26, 2005, Penguin (Non-Classics)
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"In winter the Laura B., the mail boat to Monhegan Island, is usually fairly empty."
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