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The girl from a fishing village must learn to be a lady. A special sort of lady: a geisha, one of the "wives of nightfall" who for centuries have entertained Japanese gentlemen with delicacy, wit and performance skills. At 15, Chiyo has these graces only in embryo; but a famous...
4 The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx. Winner of this year's National Book Award, Proulx's rambunctious second novel zeroes in on a coastal Newfoundland community coming apart economically and socially when the fishing and seal hunting industries fail. The author has a sharp ear for regional speech...
And oh, what a mouth. On any given day, anyone within earshot is likely to get treated to an Ozzie-style peroration on such subjects as Hugo Chávez, the Pope, Elián González, why Ozzie shouldn't have to stand in line to get his U.S. citizenship papers...
Finding oil is like fishing in a pond. After several months, you notice that you are not catching as many fish. You could buy an expensive fly rod--new technology. Or you could decide that you have already caught most of the fish in the pond. Although increased oil prices...
Throughout European history, cod has been a staple food. But cod populations have plummeted. The worldwide catch has declined from 3.1 million tons in 1970 to around 800,000 tons today. The fishery collapsed off the east coast of Canada, and fishing there was banned in 1992; the North Sea...