COD COASTS: CULTURAL LANDSCAPES OF THE COD FISHERY FROM CAPE COD TO LABRADOR

This beautifully illustrated book draws on a wealth of scholarship and field research to tell the story of the importance of the cod industry to northeastern North America, and details the rise of distinctive and historically important landscapes in the maritime northeast. These areas include the Gaspé peninsula in Québec; many points in Newfoundland and Labrador, including the port of St. John’s; Cape Breton Island and other points in Nova Scotia; the Channel Islands in the Gulf of St. Lawrence; Cape Cod and the fisheries of Massachusetts; and the town of Castine, Maine, a leader in the American cod fishery until the mid-nineteenth century.