AMARETTO by Upton, Joe - 1986

Camden ME: International Marine. Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket. 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. 0877422230; Very minor wear on the clean, sound binding. Appropriate Bkpl on front pastedown, with name blacked-out. Contents are almost as new. Very minor wear and soil on the complete DJ. ; First Printing of the FIRST EDITION. 1986. 10-1/4" Tall, 164pp. Black boards, bright gold spine lettering. TRUE ADVENTURE. "When Joe Upton bought and rebuilt the sardine carrier AMARETTO, he was looking for a livelihood that made sense to him. He found a fishery and a way of life that was harsh and cutthroat, but also imbued with a sense of tradition, continuity, and grace. This is the story of AMARETTO, an old and beautiful vessel whom the Maine islanders welcomed back with fond reminiscences. It is a story of nightime passages by radar through rockstrewn waters, and of David, the purse seiner who, it was rumored, had powers, who could find fish in the heart of a storm when no one else dared venture forth. AMARETTO is about a way of life in tune with a place but not the time, threatened by bigger, more modern vessels with deeper nets that take the herring farther offshore, bearing them to distant ports and leaving dead those they can't carry. Upton draws from the place and the circumstances a mythic dimension of people in an intimate dance with their natural suroundings, a dimension that is entirely universal yet too much missing from the society most of us know. " ... A dozen-or-so b/w photos. .