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Title: Nights of Ice : True Stories of Disaster and Survival on Alaska's High Seas by Spike Walker ISBN: 0-312-19993-7 Publisher: Griffin Trade Paperback Pub. Date: 15 February, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.22 (9 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: entertaining subject--marginal writing
Comment: I read this on a trip to Alaska, so I got into it's "spirit" on location. The stories are quite entertaining, but when writers make junior-varsity comments and mistakes, it makes me wonder about the veracity of the actual stories:
1) Does everyone see their entire lives flash before their eyes when they are near death?
2) Some guy's one-year old child asks him if he is Santa Claus upon his return from an ordeal at sea. Clearly Spike has never spent time with a one-year old; not only can very few of them speak more than a word or two, but this one is so eloquent and knowledgeable that he thinks the old man is Kris himself!
3) The helicopter pilot makes it to a "small village airport" just before running out of fuel (which means it must have been between 5-10 minutes from the rescue locale since they only had 30 minutes of fuel left before the rescue attempt(hmmmm), but somehow a C-130 can get in and out of there to send them home while the chopper gets an inspection (hmmm hmmmm).
I'll leave it at that...
Rating: 4
Summary: Nights of Ice ... Spike Walker is great read
Comment: Having lived my entire life in and around Seattle, In March 2001, I ventured North to Alaska to visit my daughter and her family. While there I picked up "Nights of Ice".
Spike Walker's subject matter is, first of all, relevant to anyone who has lived near the sea. The Pacific Ocean, the Bering Sea and the Gulf of Alaska, as one non-fisherman said, "I can't drink it all and I'm damned sure I can't swim that far."
Life at sea in a boat, rolling and plowing through the next wave, gets into some folks blood. I'm sure it's that way with fishermen and women but the money don't hurt either. In any case its a perilous life.
Nights of Ice takes us along for a ride with people, real people, who have experienced the worst the sea has to offer. Walker's intimate knowledge of workin' the boats has us searching for lights in a "can't see your hand in front of your face" stateroom, attempting, frantically, to pull on the survival suit. We are terrified of the boat goin' down with us still on board. We gasp for air and our heart seems to stop when we hit the 37 degree water. We, along with actual survivors, use every ounce of strength and resource our bodies are able to muster in order to survive.
Nights of Ice and its individual, sometimes heroic, stories are an adventure in itself.
Rating: 4
Summary: This book will make you shiver!
Comment: I enjoyed this book alot. All the stories deal with survival at sea in the waters off Alaska. The stories are kind of repetitive but if you like the first one you'll like the rest. The thought of finding one's self in the frigid Alaskan waters will make you pull an extra blanket on while you read. My only real complaint is that I would have liked more details on the fishermen involved (background, etc) so it wouldn't just have been names floating out there in the ocean. Overall, highly recommended adventure reading.
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Title: Working on the Edge: Surviving in the World's Most Dangerous Profession: King Crab Fishing on Alaska's High Seas by Spike Walker ISBN: 0312089244 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Coming Back Alive by Spike Walker ISBN: 0312269714 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 28 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Highliners: The Classic Novel about the Commercial Fishermen of Alaska by William McCloskey ISBN: 1585740284 Publisher: The Lyons Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Alaska : Tales of Adventure from the Last Frontier by Spike Walker ISBN: 0312275625 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 18 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Hungry Ocean, The:A Swordboat Captain's Journey by Linda Greenlaw ISBN: 0786885416 Publisher: Hyperion Pub. Date: 07 June, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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