Name: Coming Back Alive: The True Story of the Most Harrowing Search and Rescue Mission Ever Attempted on Alaska's High Seas (en Inglés)
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Author: Walker, Spike
ISBN: 9780312302566

portada Coming Back Alive: The True Story of the Most Harrowing Search and Rescue Mission Ever Attempted on Alaska's High Seas (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Spike Walker

Editorial

St. Martin's Griffin

Año

2002

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

288

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

23.1 x 15.5 x 1.8 cm

Peso

0.41 kg.

ISBN

0312302568

ISBN13

9780312302566

Categorías

Estados unidos de américa
Siglo xx - c. 1900-c. 1999
Obras de teatro
Historia de américa
Tecnología, ingeniería de la construcción naval
Barcos y embarcaciones

Coming Back Alive: The True Story of the Most Harrowing Search and Rescue Mission Ever Attempted on Alaska's High Seas (en Inglés)

Spike Walker (Autor) · St. Martin's Griffin · Tapa Blanda

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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.