{"product_id":"b00723iv40","title":"Working on the Edge: Surviving in the World's Most Dangerous Profession: King Crab Fishing on Alaska's High Seas","description":"\u003cp\u003eA memoir of adventure and survival that re-creates the boom years of Alaskan crab fishing and the crash that followed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis will become the definitive account of this perilous trade, an addition to the literature of the sea. —James A. Michener\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNo profession pits man against nature more brutally than king crab fishing in the frigid, unpredictable waters of the Bering Sea. The yearly death toll is staggering (forty-two men in 1988 alone); the conditions are beyond most imaginations (ninety-mph Arctic winds, twenty-five-foot seas, and super-human stretches of on-deck labor); but the payback, if one survives can be tens of thousands of dollars for a month-long season. Walker rivetingly depicts the modern-day gold rush that drew hundreds of fortune—and adventure—hunters to Alaska's dangerous waters.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWalker writes with such intensity that no one will walk away from this book without traveling some small part of the way with these men (and a few women) who work on the wild, watery edge of civilization, pushing and pushed to the limits of strength and stamina. — Alaska Fisherman's Journal\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ANT","offers":[{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":67975055736868,"sku":"YSL60389","price":5.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0805\/2614\/7620\/files\/815ZOL5CZ7L._SY1500.jpg?v=1793602092","url":"https:\/\/booktavero.com\/products\/b00723iv40","provider":"BookTavero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}