Fish and Ships [This Was Fishing from the Columbia to Bristol Bay]

New York: Bonanza Books, 1959. Reissue. Large Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 10x8x0. Reissue. Jacket lightly toned, jacket reverse lightly foxed. 1959 Large Hardcover. 173 pp. With skill and use of pertinent photographs, many never before published, authors Andrews and Larssen present the commercial fishing story as the men themselves saw it in the former days. From primitive Indian methods, early horse and beach seining, gillnetting under sail, the pictures range to the crude salteries and canneries, whaling and sealing ships, the appearance of the 'Iron Chink.' The tales of ships and men in cod, halibut and salmon fishing are equally vivid in depicting the stark reality of lonely vigils and sheer courage in calm seas and rough.