Hooked!: True Stories of Obsession, Love, and Death From Alaska's Commercial Fishermen and Women

by Leslie Leyland Fields

Book Overview

The rousing sea stories are all here: The dramas of near-death battles, the sickening tragedy of lovers and friends lost to the waters - but this is not the whole story. This collection represents an extraordinary holistic view of Alaskan fishing: Not just the dying, but the living; not just the obsessive doing of fishing, but the passionate being as well. Readers will understand why so many are hooked, unwilling or unable to leave this uncommon life...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1935347136
• ISBN13: 9781935347132
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Epicenter Press (WA)
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"