The World of the Oregon Fishboat: A Study in Maritime Folklife

by Janet C. Gilmore

Originally published in a limited cloth edition in 1986, this reissue of The World of the Oregon Fishboat brings an important and lively book to a wider audience.

Here, in an easily-read narrative, Janet Gilmore describes life in the Coos Bay community of Charleston, based upon her years of interviewing and research. She recounts a precarious lifestyle, but one filled with tradition. Oregon fishboats, and the fishermen who work on...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0874221870
• ISBN13: 9780874221879
• Release Date: February 1999
• Publisher: Washington State University Press
• Length: 285 Pages
• Weight: 1.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"