Not only does Linda Greenlaw do one of the most dangerous jobs in the world, but she also does it extremely well. She has been described as “one of the best captains on the entire East coast”. 【小题1】

Linda was born and brought up on Isle au Haut, a tiny island ten kilometers off the coast of Maine, the USA. She fell in love with fishing as a child, and she worked on fishing boats during her summer breaks from college. 【小题2】 Alden Leeman, a man she’d never met before, hired her for thirty days on his swordfishing (捕箭鱼的) boat. The trip was a success and eventually Alden offered Linda her first boat to captain in 1986, which probably made her the only woman ever to captain a swordfishing boat.

【小题3】 Linda says that not only does she like the way she feels on a boat, but she also gets passionate about catching a fish. More than anything, she’s proud of being a fisherman, even more than she is of being a best-selling author.

Linda has published four books to date. 【小题4】 In it, Linda tells the story of one fishing trip and describes the adventures she experienced on board with her five-man crew, including bad weather, sickness. mechanical problems and, of course, the fish.

But the world of fish and fishing is a man’s world. 【小题5】 In her own words, she says: “I am a woman. I am a fisherman. I am not a ‘fisherwoman’, ‘fisherlady’ or ‘fishergirl’.”