Nights of Ice Paperback - 1999
by Spike Walker
Hair-raising accounts of survival by the author of "Working on the Edge". "Grab-you-by-the-throat, rip-snorting tales of disaster on furious high seas".--"Kirkus Reviews".
From the rear cover
Collected for the first time in Nights of Ice, these eight true stories recount the harrowing ordeals of those who haul fish aboard Alaskan fishing vessels. As workers in one of the world's most dangerous - and lucrative - professions, the crewmen in Nights of Ice face a constant onslaught of roaring waves, stories-high swells, and life-stealing ice. Within seconds, a vessel such as the forty-ton Tidings can fill with icy water and slip into the depths, hurling crewmen into the freezing ocean and entombing the skipper inside its sinking hull. A ship like the Mia Dawn can run aground on a piece of submerged rock and immediately ice over, sinking steadily as her crew, battered by hypothermia and ninety-mph winds, assembles a life raft to await helicopter rescue by the U.S. Coast Guard. Tested by the elements, ravaged by their own emotions, the seamen in these extraordinary stories battle both fear and the violent unpredictability of nature. As Spike Walker's deft narration reveals, they do so with courage, instinct, and an unrelenting will to survive.
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- Title Nights of Ice
- Author Spike Walker
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st
- Pages 224
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher St. Martins Press-3PL, New York
- Date 1999-02-15
- ISBN 9780312199937 / 0312199937
- Weight 0.6 lbs (0.27 kg)
- Dimensions 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.6 in (21.34 x 13.72 x 1.52 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Pacific Northwest
- Geographic Orientation: Alaska
- Topical: Ecology
- Library of Congress subjects Survival after airplane accidents,, Shipwrecks - Alaska
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 99010810
- Dewey Decimal Code 979.805
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