The Lobster Gangs of Maine
James M. Acheson


University Press of New England
1988 • 205 pp. 23 illus. 3 tables. 5 figs. 2 maps. 6 x 9"
New England / Maine / Sociology

$16.95 Paper, 978-0-87451-451-3





“The book is wonderfully entertaining, and the information it contained agreed with everything I have learned during a decade of summers on the Maine coast”—Wall Street Journal

An anthropologist describes the working world of Maine lobstermen, focusing on the intricate personal network that sustains them.

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American Association for State and Local History Award of Merit.

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