Summary of Kirk Wallace Johnson's The Fishermen and the Dragon - E-book - ePub

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #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.