Spike Walker, Author . St. Martin's $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-26971-5
Walker spends about half of his narrative assembling a cast for his tale of seafaring disaster on the southern Gulf of Alaska fishing grounds: a five-man crew of earnest commercial fishermen; a leaky trawler, La Conte; helicopter crews and—sur
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Spike Walker, Author St. Martin's Press $20.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-312-15611-4
Addicts of true adventure tales will find few more exciting collections than this account of eight battles fought by men and women against the sea off the coast of Alaska between 1980 and 1994. Walker (Working on the Edge) has been a crewman on crab
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Spike Walker, Author, Grant Walker, Author St. Martin's Press $19.95 (279p) ISBN 978-0-312-06002-2
The pay was fabulous--a deckhand could earn $100,000 in four months--but working 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...
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