Working on the Edge: King Crab Fishing on Alaska's High Seas
Autor Spike Walkeren Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 feb 1993
In a breathtaking, action-packed account that combines his personal story with the stories of survivors of the industry's most harrowing disasters, Spike Walker's Working on the Edge re-creates the boom years of Alaskan crab fishing and the crash that followed.
No profession pits man against nature more brutally than king crab fishing in the frigid, unpredictable waters of the Bering Sea. The yearly death toll is staggering (forty-two men in 1988 alone); the conditions are beyond most imaginations (90-mph Arctic winds, 25-foot seas, and super-human stretches of on-deck labor); but the payback, if one survives can be tens of thousands of dollars for a month-long season. Walker rivetingly depicts the modern-day gold rush that drew hundreds of fortune-and adventure-hunters to Alaska's dangerous waters.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 0312089244
Pagini: 312
Dimensiuni: 155 x 231 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Ediția:Pbk.
Editura: St. Martin's Griffin