Brad Matsen

Fishing Up North (eBook, ePUB)

Stories of Luck and Loss in Alaskan Waters

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This second edition contains new and updated stories from the super-heated days when fishing fleets turned king crab into fortunes, and the annual circus of Bristol Bay's monster salmon runs, to the dangerous life of the open-ocean trawler. The true stories in Fishing Up North: Stories of Luck and Loss in Alaskian Waters capture the flavor of the modern fisherman's life and fortunes in the waters off Alaska. You'll find firsthand accounts of frightening weather, good fishing, terrible fishing, great days, and sweet living from the decks of crabbers, trawlers, longliners, trollers, and gillnetters. This book and others like it have inspired film crews to trek to Alaska and cover the crabbing seasons for reality TV shows. Commercial fishing's home ports-Dutch Harbor, Kodiak, Naknek, Cordova, Petersburg, and Sitka-are classic fishing towns, where docks, bars, and even quiet living merge in colorful portraits about life on the last frontier.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Turner Publishing Company
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780882409849
• Artikelnr.: 40376162

Autorenporträt

Brad Matsen has written about the sea and its inhabitants for forty years in books, film scripts, essays and magazine articles. He is the author of the New York Times best sellers Titanic's Last Secrets: The Heroic Discovery of the Abyss and Jacques Cousteau: The Sea King among other books, and was a creative producer for the television series The Shape of Life. His articles have appeared in Mother Jones, Audubon, and Nature, among other publications. He divides his time between Seattle and New York City.