Title

The lobster chronicles: life on a very small island.

Description

The author details her return to Isle au Haut, a tiny Maine island with a population of seventy year-round residents, many of whom are her relatives, to describe small-town life in a lobster-fishing village.

Identifier

2653259

786866772

Creator

Greenlaw, Linda

Format

1st ed.

Source

Brian Lamb Booknotes Collection

Gift of Brian Lamb, 2011.

Catalog record

Language

eng

Date

2002

Program air date: October 13, 2002

Publisher

Hyperion

George Mason University. Libraries. Special Collections & Archives

Text

Transcription of Annotations
Notes on front endpapers highlight various state regulations governing lobster fishing. Others consist of biographical information on the author, refer to the relationships between several inhabitants of Isle Au Haut and point out the danger of life as a fisherman. Also included are these quotes, questions and statements: "undemocratic system of a fishing boat", "not cut out for civic duty", "my pirate outlaw fantasy" (p. 105), "world's most dangerous profession", "only thing I like about lobstering is working with my father" (p. 139), "I have been accused all my life of keeping too much inside" (p. 169). - "Sex - 10 of 20,000 eggs become lobsters; legal sized lobster is usually 7 years"; "fishing rights for our own territory"; 75% of island's year round population relies on lobstering". - "Catch any lobsters in the woods?" -- Back endpapers name some of the residents of the island, provide additional information about the author and lobster fishing in general. -- Annotations by Brian Lamb in the margins and underlining of pertinent phrases throughout the book.

Subject

"Greenlaw, Linda, 1960-"

"Lobster fisheries--Maine--Isle au Haut."

Relation

Original Booknotes interview

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