Red Summer: The Danger and Madness of Commercial Salmon Fishing in Alaska - Softcover

9780982433287: Red Summer: The Danger and Madness of Commercial Salmon Fishing in Alaska
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Painting a visceral portrait of the life of commercial fishermen in the remote Eskimo village of Egekik, Alaska, this intense memoir depicts the author's four summers spent with a crew of seasonal salmon netters. Distinguishing itself from a typical adventure, this recollection relates the unforgiving supervision of the experienced female crew-chief, who along with her rugged shipmates lives by the credo: do the work or leave. From an encounter with an overly-inquisitive grizzly bear and being swamped by a mother-ship in open waters to the customary run-ins with colorful locals, this record is certain to appeal to adventurers, nature lovers, and armchair travelers alike. In the tradition of Jon Krakauer, Peter Matthiessen, and Sebastien Junger, this is an honest and vivid story of what it means to leave so-called civilization behind for a life full of danger, excitement, untold beauty, and physically grueling work.

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Set in the tiny Native village of Egegik on the shores of Alaska's Bristol Bay, Bill Carter's Red Summer is the thrilling story of one man's journey from novice to seasoned fisherman over the course of four beautiful, brutal summers in one of the earth's few remaining wild places. As millions of salmon race toward their annual spawning grounds, Carter learns the ancient, back-breaking trade of the set net fisherman, one of the most exhilarating and dangerous jobs in the world.  Housed in a dilapidated shack with no hot water and boarded-up windows that keep the bears at bay, Carter spends his days battling the elements on the river and his nights drinking whiskey with a memorable group of hardworking, hard-living characters. There's Sharon, the tough, charismatic woman who runs Carter's fishing crew; Carl, her stoic but warmhearted colleague; and a half-dozen local fishermen, many born and raised in this unforgiving place. Their stories-harrowing, touching, full of humor-all underscore the credo of the village's fishermen: Do the work of leave.  Carter's crew is imperiled a number of times as tides rise, nets are snagged, and the weight of too many fish threatens to sink their boat. Written with gusto and honesty, Red Summer brims with astonishing human experience and joins the grand tradition of books written by great American outdoorsmen-writers such as Ernest Hemingway, Edward Abbey, Peter Matthiessen, and Sebastian Junger. Red Summer  will appeal not only to fishermen, naturalists, adventurers, and arm-chair anthropologists alike but also to anyone who has ever yearned, however privately, to escape the bonds of modern civilization. 
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Red Summer is a vivid memoir of Bill Carter's four summers spent in grueling and exhilarating hard work as a commercial salmon fisherman in a remote Yupik Eskimo village in Alaska on the shores of Bristol Bay, that provides indelible portraits of the rugged individuals who are drawn to this work, particularly his crew-boss Sharon, who lives by the credo: do the work of leave. Certain to appeal to adventurers, environmentalists, and armchair travelers, in the tradition of Jon Krakauer, Peter Matthiessen, and Sebastian Junger, this is an honest and impassioned account of what it means to leave so-called civilization behind for a life on the extreme edge, full of danger, excitement and untold beauty.

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  • PublisherSchaffner Press, Inc.
  • Publication date2010
  • ISBN 10 098243328X
  • ISBN 13 9780982433287
  • BindingPaperback
  • Number of pages240
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