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Working on the Edge : Surviving In the World's Most Dangerous Profession: King Crab Fishing on Alaska's HighSeas
Working on the Edge Surviving In the World's Most Dangerous Profession King Crab Fishing on Alaska's HighSeas
Author: Spike Walker
No profession pits man against nature more brutally than king crab fishing in the frigid, unpredictable waters of the Bering Sea. The yearly death toll is staggering (forty-two men in 1988 alone); the conditions are beyond most imaginations (90-mph Arctic winds, 25-foot seas, and super-human stretches of on-deck labor); but the payback, if one ...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780312089245
ISBN-10: 0312089244
Publication Date: 3/15/1993
Pages: 280
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Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Book Type: Paperback
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Skillfully written, intelligent observations of the muscle, energy and strength needed to get an Alaskan fishing boat through the treacherous waters of the Shelikof Strait.
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