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Coming Back Alive

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Dark blue hardcover, with jacket in colors and shades of blue, a stormy sea.
263 pages

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When the fishing vessel La Conte sinks at night in one-hundred-mile-per-hour winds and record ninety-foot seas all the way through a savage storm in January 1998, her five crewmen are left to glide without a life raft in the freezing Alaskan waters and live to tell the tale as best they are able to.

One hundred fifty miles away, in Sitka, Alaska, an H-60 Jayhawk helicopter lifts off from The united states’s most remote Coast Guard base in the hopes of tracking down an anonymous Mayday signal. A fisherman’s worst nightmare has grow to be a Coast Guard crew’s desperate mission. As the crew of the La Conte begin to die separately, those sworn to watch over them risk the whole thing to pull off the rescue of the century.

Spike Walker’s memoir of his years as a deckhand in Alaska, Working on the Edge, used to be hailed by James A. Michner as “masterful . . . will grow to be 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.

Dark blue hardcover, with jacket in colors and shades of blue, a stormy sea.
263 pages

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