Author

Publication

2014 - , New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

50,250 words, Guess

Page Count

201 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • Better World Books9781628736816
  • Open LibraryOL27852994M

Classifications

  • DDC639.209798
  • LCCSH222.A4 A88 2014
  • LCCSH222.A4A88 2014

Description

This is the true story of a journey to a seaside town and the always unpredictable torrent of dark escapades that accompany a life at sea. It's a story of a world peopled by those who often live on the frayed edges of society, who shun the world in which most people thrive. It's a story in which college students and "fish hippies" work in canneries alongside survivalists, rednecks, religious freaks, and deckhands with damning secrets in dangerous waters, driven by the need to feed an insatiable appetite for adventure. This is the heart of the world Atcheson found himself in at the age of eighteen. Having never even seen the ocean, he took his first job on the Lancer with Darwin Wood, a man so confounding, so complex and so frightening, that it's hard to believe Atcheson walked away from that job unscathed. Forced to buddy up with a murderer in order to cope, Atcheson began to question his deeply ingrained ideas of success and status. The resulting conflict would finally resolve itself fifteen years later, in the least likely of places: on the Bering Sea, aboard a boat in peril, during a night of terror that would reshape the lives of everyone involved.

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Dave Atcheson

Other Editions

  • Dead reckoning: navigating a life on the Last Frontier, courting tragedy on its high seas2014-01-01

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