Fishcamp: Life on an Alaskan Shore

by Nancy Lord

Book Overview

For the past eighteen summers, Nancy Lord and her partner Ken have made a living, and made a life, fishing for salmon off the west side of Cook Inlet on the southern coast of Alaska. In Fishcamp ,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1559635258
• ISBN13: 9781559635257
• Release Date: April 1997
• Publisher: Island Press
• Length: 279 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.0" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Travel to Alaska for under $30. Read this book.

I'm an admitted sucker for nature writing and natural history, but am often disappointed in what I find out there. Not so with Fishcamp. This is that one-in-a-thousand book that I've longed for since first reading Walden twenty years ago. Ms. Lord writes beautifully of her day-to-day life fishing with her partner on Cook Inlet. And the stories and legends of the Dena'ina people, as well as the lives of the fishermen who have come before, will not be easily forgotten. This is not sentimental philosophizing about summers in Alaska. It is clear, respectful, and humble writing that will, I hope, be read for years to come