Coming Back Alive
by: Spike Walker
Format: Bargain Price
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: July 31, 2001
Sales Rank: 433778
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
When the fishing vessel La Conte sinks suddenly at night in one-hundred-mile-per-hour winds and record ninety-foot seas during a savage storm in January 1998, her five crewmen are left to drift without a life raft in the freezing Alaskan waters and survive as best they can.
One hundred fifty miles away, in Sitka, Alaska, an H-60 Jayhawk helicopter lifts off from America's most remote Coast Guard base in the hopes of tracking down an anonymous Mayday signal. A fisherman's worst nightmare has become a Coast Guard crew's desperate mission. As the crew of the La Conte begin to die one by one, those sworn to watch over them risk everything to pull off the rescue of the century.
Spike Walker's memoir of his years as a deckhand in Alaska, Working on the Edge, was hailed by James A. Michner as 'masterful . . . will become the definitive account of this perilous trade, an addition to the literature of the sea.' In Coming Back Alive, Walker has crafted his most devastating book to date. Meticulously researched through hundreds of hours of taped interviews with the survivors, this is the true account of the La Conte's final voyage and the relationship between Alaskan fishermen and the search and rescue crews who risk their lives to save them.
One hundred fifty miles away, in Sitka, Alaska, an H-60 Jayhawk helicopter lifts off from America's most remote Coast Guard base in the hopes of tracking down an anonymous Mayday signal. A fisherman's worst nightmare has become a Coast Guard crew's desperate mission. As the crew of the La Conte begin to die one by one, those sworn to watch over them risk everything to pull off the rescue of the century.
Spike Walker's memoir of his years as a deckhand in Alaska, Working on the Edge, was hailed by James A. Michner as 'masterful . . . will become the definitive account of this perilous trade, an addition to the literature of the sea.' In Coming Back Alive, Walker has crafted his most devastating book to date. Meticulously researched through hundreds of hours of taped interviews with the survivors, this is the true account of the La Conte's final voyage and the relationship between Alaskan fishermen and the search and rescue crews who risk their lives to save them.
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- Coming Back AliveAn excellent read for any offshore fisherman anywhere- recreational or commercial. Author also blends ... Read More
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- Walker - the fishermanI have read some reviews that have been placed on this book and I understand where everyone is coming ... Read More
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- Couldn't put it down!I know Spike and this is the first book of his I have read. I started reading this at night on my graveyard ... Read More
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- Could not put this book down!This is one of the most mesmerizing books I've read, and definitely one of Spike Walker's best. You will not ... Read More
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- Coming Back AliveExcellent book. Keeps you on the edge of your seat. Very well written.A good look over the shoulder of the Coast ... Read More
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