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Walker, Spike Nights of Ice
St. Martin's Press 1997 0-312-15611-1 / 9780312156114 Hardcover Fine/Fine
A crisp clean first edition/printing (as stated) protected in a new brodart wrapper: Frantic and entertaining in a guilty sort of way, Nights of Ice is like Endurance on steroids. The book presents eight true stories of disaster and survival involving commercial fisherman off the coast of Alaska (said to be one of America's most dangerous occupations). Included are tales of subzero temperatures, 100 mph winds, 60-foot-high waves, boats encased in ice and capsized, men trapped underwater, and other horrors. Author Spike Walker, who interviewed many of the survivors in compiling this book, is no stranger to such tales of the high seas; he worked as a commercial fisherman off the Alaska coast and wrote about it in Working on the Edge.
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1700.00 JPY
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Walker, Spike Working on the Edge: Surviving In the World's Most Dangerous Profession: Ki ng Crab Fishing on Alaska's HighSeas
St. Martin's Griffin 1993 0-312-08924-4 / 9780312089245 Paperback Fine
The pay was fabulous--a deckhand could earn $100,000 in four months--but wo rking conditions were nightmarish. Fishing for king crab in Alaskan waters is the most dangerous occupation on earth, stresses Walker, who crewed with the crab fleet during the boom years 1976-84 and here presents bone-chilli ng tales about men (one woman), ships and the sea. Deckhands frequently wor ked around the clock, pushing 750-pound crab pots over a pitching deck swep t with icy, stinging salt spray, enduring gale-force winds and gigantic wav es. Because of the lack of privacy and sleep, irregular meals, darkness and isolation from civilization, the offshore life affects sailors mentally as well as physically. Walker gives a gripping account of the 1981 fall seaso n, with its lost ships and heroic rescues. He combines his personal experie nces with sailors' stories for a vivid picture of an occupation that challe nges nature. Super adventure. Photos.
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650.00 JPY
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