"For seven years the author made his living as a fisherman off Long Island's East End, and the values he formed in daily contact with sea and fellow fishermen have, he says, "held my being in place ever since." Striper is a moving personal story and textured natural history--reminiscent of Beautiful Swimmers--of the great striped bass. It is the story of exuberant and challenging days and nights, of the fisherman's arduous, satisfying ways of life, and of the magnificent fish that symbolizes that life and which is now so sorely threatened. Cole has written a new and important introduction for this edition of his classic book. John Cole is the author of Fishing Came First and other important books. His articles have been published in The Atlantic, The New York Times, Harpers, Country Journal, The Boston Globe, Esquire, and elsewhere, and he has edited the Maine Times, which he founded."

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