The Lobster Coast: Rebels, Rusticators, and the Struggle for a Forgotten Frontier - Hardcover

This lively book reveals a little known culture that predates the Pilgrims and has remained true to the earliest version of the American Dream: an egalitarian, self-reliant republic. The self-sufficient lobstermen of the Maine coast are models of environmental prudence: at a time when the fishing industry is in crisis, they have conserved the bounty of their waters, even as the once-humble lobster has become a coveted delicacy. How denizens of the coast achieved this balance, even as they withstood assaults from everyone from French raiders to rapacious land speculators, makes for a stellar informal history. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 372 pages; Description: viii, 372 p. : maps ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-362) and index. Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life--Maine--Atlantic Coast. Atlantic Coast (Me. ) --History, Biography, Social life and customs