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- ISBN
- 9780226116761
- Book Title
- Western Flyer : Steinbeck's Boat, the Sea of Cortez, and the Saga of Pacific Fisheries
- Item Length
- 8.8 in
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Publication Year
- 2015
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.7 in
- Genre
- Technology & Engineering, Nature, Literary Criticism, Science
- Topic
- Animals / Fish, Ecosystems & Habitats / Oceans & Seas, Life Sciences / Marine Biology, American / General, Fisheries & Aquaculture
- Item Width
- 5.8 in
- Item Weight
- 12.1 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 184 Pages
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By many accounts, the Western Flyer is the world's most famous fishing vessel. It acquired its literary and scientific reputation in 1940 when John Steinbeck and Ed Ricketts chartered the vessel for a six-week expedition to Mexico's Gulf of California, also known as the Sea of Cortez. Ricketts -- a pioneer in the study of diverse sea life of the West Coast -- Steinbeck and the crew spent those weeks collecting specimens along the margins of the sea. The Western Flyer hadn't been their first choice, but the local fisherman that dominated the sardine fisheries in Monterey at the time considered Steinbeck an activist in the labor movement who wanted to unionize their boat crews. The boat itself has been resurrected of recent, caught in a battle between its current owner, a developer who wants to turn it into a restaurant in Salinas, and the Western Flyer Project, a nonprofit group that wants the Flyer restored to its original working condition and used for educational voyages on Monterey Bay and elsewhere. After the Flyer's brief brush with celebrity, it worked for decades as a sardine seiner, a tuna boat, a crab boat in Alaska and a scientific research vessel along the West Coast. The author, who grew up in Salinas, uses the boat as a device to trace the depletion of marine life, from shrimp in the Sea of Cortez to sardines, to salmon and king crab. The boat is just one character, but so too are those who have owned it, fished from it, and also who now battle over rights to establish its final resting place. The author has used Steinbeck archives, interviewed family members, and drawn upon his 32 years in Pacific Northwest Fisheries, casting a wide net around this vessel and the ecology of waters in which it has traveled.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10
022611676x
ISBN-13
9780226116761
eBay Product ID (ePID)
7038260767
Product Key Features
Book Title
Western Flyer : Steinbeck's Boat, the Sea of Cortez, and the Saga of Pacific Fisheries
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Animals / Fish, Ecosystems & Habitats / Oceans & Seas, Life Sciences / Marine Biology, American / General, Fisheries & Aquaculture
Publication Year
2015
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Technology & Engineering, Nature, Literary Criticism, Science
Number of Pages
184 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.8 in
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Width
5.8 in
Item Weight
12.1 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Sh214.4.B35 2015
Reviews
Steinbeck and Ricketts's six-week adventure dominates the early part of the book . . . , but the author, a Pacific Fisheries scientist and a founding director of the Man & Sea Institute, also discusses the plight of the Pacific Fisheries. He easily segues from one to the other. . . . The narrative has turns that are anecdotal, gossipy, speculative, and analytical., Bailey rekindles the vibrant story of the Western Flyer , the fishing vessel that carried John Steinbeck and Ed Ricketts across the Sea of Cortez. The vessel, once earmarked to become part of a restaurant, is now scheduled to be used for marine education., There are many ways to write about this lovely book. Piecing together the history of the Western Flyer --the boat made famous by John Steinbeck's voyage to the Sea of Cortez--Kevin M. Bailey delivers a fascinating, complex, and compelling portrait. Bailey weaves together illuminating stories of how Steinbeck's time on this sturdy, seaworthy vessel is reflected in his writing with tales of fishermen who skippered the boat, the seas they fished, and the fish they caught and ultimately didn't catch, assembling a powerful and evocative history that might otherwise be forgotten, but which must not be lost if we are ever to return our once-plentiful ocean to abundance., Bailey works hard to uncover the Western Flyer's life apart from its celebrity status. Salmon, crab, and tuna flipped, skittered, flopped, and then stilled on its deck; its succession of captains wielded it with bravado or sold it out of despair. Bailey shows that the life of the Western Flyer mirrored that of the fishing industry, promising endless riches, yet, in reality, often facing a near-fatal decline., Interspersed with quotations from Steinbeck, as Philip Hoare's The Whale references Herman Melville's Moby-Dick , this well-written book will appeal to readers concerned with fishery conservation and the importance of fishing to the local economy. . . . Of interest both to Steinbeck fans and readers of Paul Greenberg's Four Fish ., There are many ways to write about this lovely book. Piecing together the history of the Western Flyer --the boat made famous by John Steinbeck's voyage to the Sea of Cortez--Kevin M. Bailey delivers a fascinating, complex, and compelling portrait. Bailey weaves together illuminating stories of how Steinbeck's time on this sturdy, seaworthy vessel is reflected in his writing with tales of fishermen who skippered the boat, the seas they fished, and the fish they caught and ultimately didn't catch, assembling a powerful and evocative history that might otherwise be forgotten, but which must not be lost if we are ever to return our once-plentiful ocean to abundance., A rich blend of philosophy, ecology, history, and first-rate literature lies behind the unassuming title. . . . Bailey uses the odyssey of the Western Flyer to illustrate the exuberance that accompanies the exploitation of a newly discovered fisheries resource, the all too common depletion that ensues, and the ongoing struggle to exploit natural resources in a sustainable way. . . . The final pages of this book are lyrical prose at its finest, and almost seem to channel Steinbeck., A worthwhile addition to the environmental canon, and while it builds off of The Sea of Cortez , it stands alone as its own work. . . . Through Bailey's summary of Steinbeck and Ricketts' explorations we find humans capable of understanding the natural world on which we all depend. His history of the boat's trajectory through collapsing fisheries, however, shows humans as stubbornly unwilling to learn many simple yet crucial lessons. It's a sad but necessary book., Bailey works hard to uncover the Western Flyer's life apart from its celebrity status. Salmon, crab, and tuna flipped, skittered, flopped, and then stilled on its deck; its succession of captains wielded it with bravado or sold it out of despair. Bailey shows that the life of the Western Flyer mirrored that of the fishing industry, promising endless riches, yet, in reality, often facing a near-fatal decline., Bailey's clear and concise account of her complicity in the serial destruction of crucial fisheries in the Pacific Northwest after her role in the romantic, literary, philosophical, and ecological immersion of Sea of Cortez cannot help but drive a conscientious reader toward Bailey's goal: to understand, as Ricketts and Steinbeck did, that the oceans and their fisheries must survive or we do not. Thus the Western Flyer story, so full of irony, will have a happy ending after all. A player in the mindless, greedy, irresponsible damage of untold natural fishery resources, so near death from neglect that some said it couldn't be done, The Western Flyer rises again, this time as an icon of ocean-life preservation: a seagoing classroom for students of ecology and the marine sciences. Kevin Bailey's little book has the tight, complete, joyful feeling of John Steinbeck's Cannery Row . Yet it's so packed with helpful information and remarkable detail that my copy was well marked up, underlined, and highlighted when I finished. Yours will be, too., From shrimp in the Sea of Cortez to sardines and Pacific ocean perch on the West Coast, from salmon to king crab, the story of these fisheries is consistent with the spread of fisheries--and overfishing--in general, from coastal waters near major population centers to areas that are increasingly farther offshore, deeper, and more remote. Along with the effects this approach has had on marine life, The Western Flyer also illuminates the impact it has had on coastal communities. Kevin M. Bailey uses this boat to help people see how we have serially depleted one population of marine life after another, and how we have repeated the rationale justifying it all across time and place without learning from past experiences., Bailey, a former fishery biologist, presents expert descriptions of West Coast fisheries that were overexploited and eventually collapsed. The chronology begins with the sardine, once one of the world's largest fisheries, and continues with the ocean perch, king crab, and finally the salmon. In essence, the book is a valuable conservation lesson, one that should be read by every aspiring fishery biologist. . . . Recommended., Bailey, a former fishery biologist, presents expert descriptions of West Coast fisheries that were overexploited and eventually collapsed. The chronology begins with the sardine, once one of the world's largest fisheries, and continues with the ocean perch, king crab, and finally the salmon. In essence, the book is a valuable conservation lesson, one that should be read by every aspiring fishery biologist. . . . Recommended., A worthwhile addition to the environmental canon, and while it builds off of The Sea of Cortez , it stands alone as its own work. . . . Through Bailey's summary of Steinbeck and Ricketts' explorations we find humans capable of understanding the natural world on which we all depend. His history of the boat's trajectory through collapsing fisheries, however, shows humans as stubbornly unwilling to learn many simple yet crucial lessons. It's a sad but necessary book., Deserve[s] a space on your eReader or on your nightstand. . . . Any devoted Steinbeck fan should be familiar with The Western Flyer , the ship at the heart of The Log from the Sea of Cortez , one of Steinbeck's nonfiction works. In this book, Kevin M. Bailey ties the narrative of the legendary boat with the spread of Pacific fisheries and, ultimately, their downfall thanks to absentminded overfishing., Well-researched and written with deep passion and knowledge for the boat and the fish harvested from it, Bailey's short book is a fine tribute to the Western Flyer , as well as a poignant warning about humanity's impact on the globe., From shrimp in the Sea of Cortez to sardines and Pacific Ocean perch on the West Coast, from salmon to king crab, the story of these fisheries is consistent with the spread of fisheries-and overfishing-in general, from coastal waters near major population centers to areas that are increasingly farther offshore, deeper, and more remote. Along with the effects this approach has had on marine life, The Western Flyer also illuminates the impact it has had on coastal communities. Bailey uses this boat to help people see how we have serially depleted one population of marine life after another, and how we have repeated the rationale justifying it all across time and place without learning from past experiences.
Table of Content
Prologue 1: INTRODUCTION An Iconic Boat, Steinbeck, and Pacific Fisheries 2: WESTERN FLYER Setting the Stage 3: THE SEA OF CORTEZ A Grand Trip on the Western Flyer 4: THE CALIFORNIA SARDINE FISHERY A Story of Fortune, Politics, and Woe 5: WHAT HAPPENED TO THE SARDINES? The Ecological View of Ed Ricketts 6: ROSE-COLORED SEA Captain Dan Luketa and the Pacific Ocean Perch Fishery 7: NORTH TO ALASKA The Return of the Western Flyer to the Aleutians and the Red King Crab Fishery 8: THE GEMINI YEARS A Tale of the Red-Fleshed Pacific Salmon 9: THE LONG ROAD HOME End of the Voyage Acknowledgments Notes References Index
Copyright Date
2015
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2014-032434
Dewey Decimal
639.2
Dewey Edition
23
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