Richard Adams Carey
Richard Adams Carey (born October 18, 1951) is an American writer best known for ''Against the Tide: The Fate of the New England Fisherman'' (), a nonfiction chronicle of the 1995-96 fishing season in the lives of four Cape Cod commercial fishermen. The ''New York Times'' called ''Against the Tide'' "deep ecological journalism at its best, an effective and compassionate chronicle of a threatened way of life, and a worthy successor to such classic portraits of American fishermen as William W. Warner's ''Beautiful Swimmers'' and Peter Matthiessen's ''Men's Lives''". Biography Carey grew up in West Hartford, Connecticut. He attended the Loomis School (now Loomis Chaffee School, Loomis-Chaffee) and then Harvard University. He worked various low-paying jobs before teaching for ten years in the Yup'ik Eskimo villages of southwest Alaska, where he learned the Central Alaskan Yup'ik language, Yup'ik language (Yugtun). He published magazine articles about his experiences in Alaska in ''C ...
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