North by Northwestern: A Seafaring Family in Deadly Alaskan Waters - Couverture rigide

Hansen, Sig; Sundeen, Mark

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ISBN 10 : 0312591144 ISBN 13 : 9780312591144

Editeur : Thomas Dunne Books, 2010

Synopsis

Book by Hansen Captain Sig Sundeen Mark

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Sig Hansen has been a star of the Channel 4's The Deadliest Catch from the pilot to the present. Seen in over 150 countries, the show attracts more than 49 million viewers per season, making it one of the most successful series in the history of cable TV. With its daredevil camera work, unpredictably dangerous weather, and a setting as unforgivable and unforgettable as the frigid Bering Sea, The Deadliest Catch is unlike anything else on television.
But the weatherworn fishermen of the fishing vessel Northwestern have stories that don't come through on TV. For Sig Hansen and his brothers, commercial fishing is as much a part of their Norwegian heritage as their names. Descendents of the Vikings who roamed and ruled the northern seas for centuries, the Hansens' connection to the sea stretches from Alaska to Seattle and all the way to Norway. And after twenty years as a skipper on the commercial fishing vessel the Northwestern -- which was his father's before him -- Sig has lived to tell the tales.
To be a successful fisherman, you need to be a mechanic, navigator, welder, painter, carpenter, and sometimes, a firefighter. To be a successful fisherman year after year, you need to be a survivor.
This is the story of a family of survivors; part memoir and part adventure tale, North by Northwestern brings readers on deck, into the dockside bars and into the history of a family with a common destiny. Built around a gripping tale of a deadly shipwreck like The Perfect Storm, North by Northwestern is the multi-generational tale of the Hansen family, a clan of tough Norwegian-American fishermen who, through the popularity of The Deadliest Catch, have become modern folk-heroes.

Quatrième de couverture :

The action of the hit Discovery Channel series Deadliest Catch combines with the personal saga of a Norwegian family in this memoir adventure tale of commercial fishermen on the Bering Sea
Captain Sig Hansen first went out onto the Bering Sea at the age of twelve, and has returned every season for four decades. With its brutal storms of forty-foot waves, gale winds, freezing spray and treacherous ice-cover, the Bering Sea is a true frontier, deadly in its unpredictability. To be a successful fisherman, you need to be a mechanic, navigator, welder, painter, carpenter, and sometimes, a firefighter. To be a successful fisherman year after year, you need to be a survivor.

In the tradition of Sebastian Junger and Linda Greenlaw comes Captain Sig Hansen's rags-to-riches epic of his immigrant family's struggle against deadly Alaskan seas, freezing shipwrecks, and dangerously brutal conditions to achieve the American Dream. Built around the gripping tale of a deadly shipwreck like The Perfect Storm, Deadliest Waters is the multigenerational history of the Hansen family, a clan of tough Norwegian-American fishermen who have become modern day folk-heroes.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Thomas Dunne Books
• Date d'édition: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0312591144
• ISBN 13: 9780312591144
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 320