Overview
Winner of the 1958 Mayflower Award, The Hatterasman is part nature story, part historical narrative, part adventure story, and part rhetorical farse. "The language of the book is oddly timeless-archaic and colloquial at the same time, a chronicle of nested stories you might hear from a salty old-timer at the bait shack," writes Gerard in his introduction. "They hold the appeal of both history and myth-the larger shape of our beliefs personified in distinctive, sometimes heroic characters, from explorers like Amerigo Vespucci to surfmen like Rasmus Midgett."The 50th-anniversary edition features a new introduction by author Philip Gerard (Cape Fear Rising) and a biographical essay by Barbara Brannon.
Synopsis
Winner of the 1958 Mayflower Award, The Hatterasman is part nature story, part historical narrative, part adventure story, and part rhetorical farse. "The language of the book is oddly timeless-archaic and colloquial at the same time, a chronicle of nested stories you might hear from a salty old-timer at the bait shack," writes Gerard in his introduction. "They hold the appeal of both history and myth-the larger shape of our beliefs personified in distinctive, sometimes heroic characters, from explorers like Amerigo Vespucci to surfmen like Rasmus Midgett."
The 50th-anniversary edition features a new introduction by author Philip Gerard (Cape Fear Rising) and a biographical essay by Barbara Brannon.