Dead Reckoning

Navigating a Life on the Last Frontier, Courting Tragedy on Its High Seas

Nonfiction, Sports, Outdoors, Fishing, Travel, United States, West, Biography & Memoir
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Author: Dave Atcheson ISBN: 9781629140247
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Publication: July 1, 2014
Imprint: Skyhorse Publishing Language: English
Author: Dave Atcheson
ISBN: 9781629140247
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Publication: July 1, 2014
Imprint: Skyhorse Publishing
Language: English

Reminiscent of The Perfect Storm and Into the Wild**—an intimate look at life at sea, small-town Alaska, and the people drawn to its endless thrills.**
 
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 Dave 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.
 
“Atcheson’s writing is akin to that of a skilled novelist . . . A page turner.” —Alaska Dispatch News

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Reminiscent of The Perfect Storm and Into the Wild**—an intimate look at life at sea, small-town Alaska, and the people drawn to its endless thrills.**
 
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 Dave 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.
 
“Atcheson’s writing is akin to that of a skilled novelist . . . A page turner.” —Alaska Dispatch News

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