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ISBN
9780312302566
Book Title
Coming Back Alive : The True Story of the Most Harrowing Search and Rescue Mission Ever Attempted on Alaska's High Seas
Item Length
9.2in
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Publication Year
2002
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Item Height
0.8in
Author
Spike Walker
Features
Revised
Genre
Technology & Engineering, Nature
Topic
Natural Disasters, Emergency Management
Item Width
6.1in
Item Weight
10.9 Oz
Number of Pages
288 Pages

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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.

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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
ISBN-10
0312302568
ISBN-13
9780312302566
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2255211

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Book Title
Coming Back Alive : The True Story of the Most Harrowing Search and Rescue Mission Ever Attempted on Alaska's High Seas
Author
Spike Walker
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Features
Revised
Topic
Natural Disasters, Emergency Management
Publication Year
2002
Genre
Technology & Engineering, Nature
Number of Pages
288 Pages

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Item Length
9.2in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
6.1in
Item Weight
10.9 Oz

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G530.L3w36 2003
Edition Description
Revised Edition
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Junger intrigues you, Greenlaw enlightens you. Walker will scare you half to death...Walker describes seven of the most intense hours I have read about., Walker paints the history, geography, and citizenry of Alaskan fishing towns with great warmth and evocativeness...Don't be surprised if tears of relief flood your eyes after finishing., "Walker paints the history, geography, and citizenry of Alaskan fishing towns with great warmth and evocativeness...Don't be surprised if tears of relief flood your eyes after finishing." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "Harrowing and suspenseful" -- Publisher's Weekly " COMING BACK ALIVE is everything the genre demands: exciting harrowing maddeningly suspenseful." -- Portland Oregonian "Junger intrigues you, Greenlaw enlightens you. Walker will scare you half to death...Walker describes seven of the most intense hours I have read about." -- National Fisherman's Journal "Reminiscent of Sebastian Junger's THE PERFECT STORM and Frederic Stonehouse's THE WRECK OF THE EDMUND FITZGERALD . Highly recommended." -- Library Journal, Reminiscent of Sebastian Junger's THE PERFECT STORM and Frederic Stonehouse's THE WRECK OF THE EDMUND FITZGERALD . Highly recommended.
Copyright Date
2003
Dewey Decimal
363.1/23/097984
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes

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  • by monroehill
    Aug 09, 2007

    Great Read, Spike Walker hits a Homerun

    Spike Walker sets up 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 an vicious winter storm. The January 1998 storm was the worst in the state's history, and La Conte took in water and sank, leaving its crew to the mercy of 100 mph winds and 90-foot seas. Spike describes the Coast Guard's heroic rescue of the ship's crew along the rugged Alaskan coast. A well written book, as I personally own all 3 books that Walker has written.

  • by ryanjabari
    Jul 22, 2019

    Thank you

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  • by kchb111
    Sep 06, 2007

    COMING BACK ALIVE

    GREAT BOOK ON A RESCUE ON THE BEARING SEE . GREAT DETAIL AND TRUE FACTS . A PLEASANT READ . WOULD RECOMMEND TO ANYONE INTO ALASKA OR CRAB FISHING . ALSO THERE IS A LOT OF COAST GUARD CONTENT .

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