Fishcamp Life On An Alaskan Shore

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 Lord provides a nuanced and engrossing portrait of their days and months in camp at the inlet.. Nancy Lord celebrates a great good place--Cook Inlet Alaska where she and her partner have made a life together for more than twenty years. With poetic cadence and magical tone Lord writes of her life from June to August days filled with the mending of nets the muscle-wrenching labor of the catch the exquisite pleasure of an improvised hot-tub and the often subtle beauty of the inlets flora and fauna.Woven throughout Lords adventures is the deeper history of the regions stories and legends of the native Denaina people; anecdotes about past and current residents; and descriptions of their neighbors both human and animal.