"This is pure adventure. Dean's story is…sinewy and spare, understated and often gorgeously written."
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Ethan Gilsdorf, Boston Globe
"Four Thousand Hooks is a marvellous loss-of-innocence book, informative, enjoyable and well worth reading."
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Irene Wanner, Seattle Times
"Four Thousand Hooks has the feel of an honest memoir, valuable for its precision in describing fishing methods, crew interactions, and what Adams thought and felt..."
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Scott Bowlen, Ketchikan Daily News
"His first-hand accounts come alive on the pages, where the reader is swept into the story with the narrator.... The foreshadowing and timing of the story makes it difficult to stop..."
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Christy Olsen Field, Norwegian American Weekly
"Four Thousand Hooks says a lot about our ability to meet extraordinary challenges, and suggests that maybe we're all stronger and more capable than we realize. [It’s] filled with fascinating details of the fishing life, makes for awfully good reading."
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National Fisherman, October 15
""The well-honed prose tells a good story and one is encouraged to turn the pages to see what happens next. This is not only a very readable book but an important record of a particular type of fishing."
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Arthur G. Credland, Mariners Mirror
"Four Thousand Hooks is one teenage boy's dramatic, yet humorous, coming-of-age story set against the backdrop of Alaskan maritime culture... a vivid picture of life and commercial fishing conditions in Alaska..."
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Jennifer Huffman, Independent Publisher
"Four Thousand Hooks [is] one of the best books about commercial fishing in Alaska. The author began long-lining for halibut at age fifteen and went on to captain his own vessel: it is a great book for anyone interested in life on a commercial fishing vessel."
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Charlotte Glover, Southeast Sea Kayaks Blog