Summary of Kirk Wallace Johnson's The Fishermen and the Dragon

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
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#1 Billy Joe Aplin was a fisherman in 1975, and his family decked-out with all the trappings. He met his wife in 1964, when she was sixteen, and they were pregnant with their first child, Beth, in 1965. They had saved enough by the late 1960s to buy their first trawler.
#2 Billy Joe Aplin was a fisherman in 1975, and his family decked-out with all the trappings. He met his wife in 1964, when she was sixteen, and they were pregnant with their first child, Beth, in 1965. But one fateful morning in July 1969, his luck began to curdle. After dropping Beth off with a relative, Billy Joe and Judy went dragging for shrimp in high spirits but something quickly went wrong. The trawler began to sink, and they had to dive into the gulf to save themselves.
#3 In 1975, a fisherman named Billy Joe Aplin met his wife Judy in 1964, when she was sixteen and he was eighteen. They had three children together, and Billy Joe dreamed of the day when he could return to shrimping. But their luck began to curdle in 1969, when they sank their trawler and had to dive into the gulf to save themselves.
#4 Billy Joe Aplin was a fisherman in 1975, and his family decked-out with all the trappings. He met his wife in 1964, when she was sixteen, and they were pregnant with their first child, Beth, in 1965. But one fateful morning in 1969, their luck began to curdle. The trawler began to sink, and they had to dive into the gulf to save themselves.

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• Discrimination
• Sociologie, société et politique
• Social Science

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• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 10 septembre 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798350000412
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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#1

Billy Joe Aplin was a fisherman in 1975, and his family decked-out with all the trappings. He met his wife in 1964, when she was sixteen, and they were pregnant with their first child, Beth, in 1965. They had saved enough by the late 1960s to buy their first trawler.

#2

Billy Joe Aplin was a fisherman in 1975, and his family decked-out with all the trappings. He met his wife in 1964, when she was sixteen, and they were pregnant with their first child, Beth, in 1965. But one fateful morning in July 1969, his luck began to curdle. After dropping Beth off with a relative, Billy Joe and Judy went dragging for shrimp in high spirits but something quickly went wrong. The trawler began to sink, and they had to dive into the gulf to save themselves.

#3

In 1975, a fisherman named Billy Joe Aplin met his wife Judy in 1964, when she was sixteen and he was eighteen. They had three children together, and Billy Joe dreamed of the day when he could return to shrimping. But their luck began to curdle in 1969, when they sank their trawler and had to dive into the gulf to save themselves.

#4

Billy Joe Aplin was a fisherman in 1975, and his family decked-out with all the trappings. He met his wife in 1964, when she was sixteen, and they were pregnant with their first child, Beth, in 1965. But one fateful morning in 1969, their luck began to curdle. The trawler began to sink, and they had to dive into the gulf to save themselves.

#5

When Billy Joe and his wife Judy went out to shrimp in 1969, their trawler began to sink and they had to dive into the gulf to save themselves. In 1975, a fisherman named Billy Joe Aplin met his wife Judy in 1964, when she was sixteen, and they had three children together. But one fateful morning in 1969, their luck began to curdle.

#6

Billy Joe and Judy had three children together, and Billy Joe dreamed of the day when he could return to shrimping. But their luck began to curdle in 1969, when they sank their trawler and had to dive into the gulf to save themselves.

#7

Wilson, a young woman, had a difficult time finding work after leaving her time in the shrimp industry. She went to work at a crab-picking plant, which was not a good fit for her.

#8

In 1901, oil prospectors probing around the sulfur springs of Spindletop Hill in Beaumont, Texas, uncorked a hundred-foot-tall geyser of slick crude. The industry came to Seadrift, eyeing its rivers and deep-channel bays.

#9

In 1975, a fisherman named Billy Joe Aplin met his wife Judy in 1964 when she was sixteen and he was eighteen. They had three children together, and Billy Joe dreamed of the day when he could return to shrimping. But their luck began to curdle in 1969 when they sank their trawler and had to dive into the gulf to save themselves.

#10

A fisherman named Billy Joe Aplin began writing a letter to local leaders in 1975, accusing Alcoa of polluting the local bays with methylmercury.

#11

Billy Joe had a difficult time finding work after leaving the shrimp industry, and he blamed it on Alcoa's pollution. In 1975, he met his wife Judy in 1964 when she was sixteen and he was eighteen. They had three children together, and Billy Joe dreamed of the day when he could return to shrimping. But their luck began to curdle in 1969 when they sank their trawler and had to dive into the gulf to save themselves.

#12

These men were independent, stubbornly so, and didn't want to be organized into a cooperative. They were fishermen because they were stubbornly independent.

#13

Remember the Ixtoc I oil spill in the Bay of Campeche in 1979, where a drilling rig operated by Pemex, the Mexican state-owned oil company, was boring a deep-sea oil well. Something went terribly wrong, and the oil slick expanded to the size of Manhattan, drifting north into US waters toward the Texas Gulf Coast.

#14

These fishermen were independent and stubborn, and didn't want to be organized into a cooperative. They were fishermen because they were stubbornly independent.

#15

After the fall of South Vietnam, a Gallup poll taken in the US showed that only 36 percent of Americans thought refugees fleeing the country’s calamitous war deserved resettlement.

#16

In 1975, Billy Joe Aplin, a fisherman, began writing letters to local leaders accusing Alcoa of polluting the local bays with methylmercury. In 1979, the Ixtoc I oil spill in the Bay of Campeche was caused by a drilling rig operated by Pemex, the Mexican state-owned oil company.