Distant Water: The Fate of the North Atlantic Fisherman

by William W. Warner

Book Overview

Distant Water, by the author of Beautiful Swimmers, is, IMHO a better written and more complete picture of the lives and hazards faced by deep water fisherman. While The Perfect Storm was... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316923281
• ISBN13: 9780316923286
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: Little Brown and Company
• Length: 338 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.

Customer Reviews

good description of the time and place

It is a very good book, but not as good as Beautiful Swimmers, or The Perfect Storm. Warner is not as clueless as Sebastian Junger, but also not as good a writer. Junger is much more likely to be wrong on a technical point.

Distant Water - better than The Perfect Storm

Distant Water, by the author of Beautiful Swimmers, is, IMHO a better written and more complete picture of the lives and hazards faced by deep water fisherman. While The Perfect Storm was exhilerating, it concentrated on one event.Distant Water is a fuller, more well-rounded picture of the everyday hazards faced by the people who feed us, doing one of the most dangerous jobs available in America.