fishers

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Captains Courageous

1964
An American son of a millionaire is saved from drowning by a New England fishing schooner and forced to prove his worth to the captain and crew.

Captains courageous

2002
An adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's "Captains Courageous," the story of Harvey Cheyne, the spoiled son of a millionaire who is rescued by New England fishermen after being swept overboard from an ocean liner and put to work on their boat.

The old man and the sea

1995
An old fisherman battles the sea and sharks to bring home the giant marlin he caught.

Mist over the water

2010
Sixteen-year-old Lassair, a healer, is sent to care for her cousin Morcar after he is violently attacked, and she determines to learn the truth when it becomes clear that the would-be assassins did not want Morcar to reveal that he had seen a white-haired youth being dragged into St. Ely monastery, apparently against the boy's will.

My father's boat

1998
A Vietnamese-American boy spends a day with his father on his shrimp boat, listening as he describes how his own father fishes on the South China Sea.

My grandpa and the sea

1990
When Grandpa, a traditional fisherman, is forced from his livelihood because increasingly efficient technology has depleted his island's supply of fish, he creates an ecologically sound solution by starting a sea moss farm.

The serpent came to Gloucester

2005
Rhyming text tells of a sea serpent that plays off the coast of Massachusetts the summer of 1817, and is hunted upon its return the next year. Includes a page of facts upon which the story is based.

The merbaby

2001
When he and his brother Josh find a mer-baby caught in their fishing net, Tarron, rejecting his brother's plan to sell the baby and make a profit, discovers that there are greater treasures than gold.

Der alte mann und das meer

2008
An old fisherman battles the sea and sharks to bring home the giant marlin he caught.

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