Spike Walker: Nights of Ice | Taschenbuch

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Beschreibung

Nights of Ice is a critically acclaimed account of the dangerous and harrowing job of fishing off of the treacherous, subzero Alaskan coastline.
Spike Walker has spent more than a decade fishing in the subzero hell of Alaska's coastal waters. This collection--coming on the heels of his classic memoir Working on the Edge--is a testament to the courage of those who brave nature's wrath each fishing season, and to the uncontrolled power of nature herself. The crewmen in Nights of Ice face a constant onslaught of roaring waves, stories-high swells, and life-stealing ice. Tested by the elements, these seamen battle for their vessels and their lives, on every page evincing a level of courage and a will to live seldom found elsewhere in modern society.

Über den Autor

Spike Walker spent nine seasons as a crewman aboard some of the most successful crab boats in the Alaskan fleet. While "working on the edge," the crewmen's term for laboring in the brutal outer reaches of the Bering Sea, Spike encountered 110-mph winds, rode out one of the worst storms in Alaska's history, worked nonstop for seventy-four hours without sleep, participated in record catches of king crab, saw ships sink, helped rescue their crews, and had close friends die at sea. In addition to his crab-fishing experience, Spike Walker has worked in the offshore oilfields of Louisiana and Texas; along the Mississippi River as a certified, commercial deep-sea diver; and in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Alaska as a logger. He is the author of several works of nonfiction, including Working on the Edge, Nights of Ice, and Coming Back Alive.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	1999
Genre:	Importe
Produktart:	Nachschlagewerke
Rubrik:	Hobby & Freizeit
Thema:	Garten & Natur
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9780312199937
ISBN-10:	0312199937
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Walker, Spike
Hersteller:	St. Martins Press-3PL
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	216 x 140 x 13 mm
Von/Mit:	Spike Walker
Erscheinungsdatum:	15.02.1999
Gewicht:	0,325 kg