Working on the Edge: Surviving in the World's Most Dangerous Profession: King Crab Fishing on Alaska's High Seas - Paperback
by Spike Walker
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Language:EnglishPublisher:St. Martin's GriffinISBN-13:9780312089245ISBN-10:312089244UPC:9780312089245Book Category:Technology & Engineering, NatureBook Subcategory:AgricultureSize:9.10 x 6.10 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.7518Product ID:SCGTWBZAM0
Working on the Edge: Surviving in the World's Most Dangerous Profession: King Crab Fishing on Alaska's High Seas
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...
Language:EnglishPublisher:St. Martin's GriffinISBN-13:9780312089245ISBN-10:312089244UPC:9780312089245Book Category:Technology & Engineering, NatureBook Subcategory:AgricultureSize:9.10 x 6.10 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.7518Product ID:SCGTWBZAM0
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 crewman's term for laboring in the brutal outer reaches of the Berin 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...
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