{"title":"Spike Walker","description":"\u003cp\u003eJourney into the rugged landscapes and resilient spirit of Alaska with Spike Walker's gripping tales. Explore true stories of survival, adventure, and the untamed wilderness, perfect for fans of Jon Krakauer.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"nights-of-ice-book-spike-walker-9780312199937","title":"Nights of Ice","description":"Collected for the first time in Nights of Ice, these eight true stories recount the harrowing ordeals of those who haul fish aboard Alaskan fishing vessels. As workers in one of the world's most dangerous - and lucrative - professions, the crewmen in Nights of Ice face a constant onslaught of roaring waves, stories-high swells, and life-stealing ice. Within seconds, a vessel such as the forty-ton Tidings can fill with icy water and slip into the depths, hurling crewmen into the freezing ocean and entombing the skipper inside its sinking hull. A ship like the Mia Dawn can run aground on a piece of submerged rock and immediately ice over, sinking steadily as her crew, battered by hypothermia and ninety-mph winds, assembles a life raft to await helicopter rescue by the U.S. Coast Guard. Tested by the elements, ravaged by their own emotions, the seamen in these extraordinary stories battle both fear and the violent unpredictability of nature. As Spike Walker's deft narration reveals, they do so with courage, instinct, and an unrelenting will to survive.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49529941917969,"sku":"GOR002456510","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50171441807633,"sku":"CIN0312199937G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50347363139857,"sku":"CIN0312199937A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51000831803665,"sku":"NIN9780312199937","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51415657054481,"sku":"CIN0312199937VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52661634171153,"sku":"NLS9780312199937","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53241220989201,"sku":"GOR005847963","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0312199937.jpg?v=1751426973"},{"product_id":"working-on-the-edge-book-spike-walker-9780312089245","title":"Working on the Edge","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn a breathtaking, action-packed account that combines his personal story with the stories of survivors of the industry's most harrowing disasters, Spike Walker's \u003ci\u003eWorking on the Edge\u003c\/i\u003e re-creates the boom years of Alaskan crab fishing and the crash that followed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e No 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 (90-mph Arctic winds, 25-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","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49530291618065,"sku":"CIN0312089244G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49546159816977,"sku":"GOR003653327","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49601362329873,"sku":"GOR001919112","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49685407760657,"sku":"CIN0312089244VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50479939780881,"sku":"CIN0312089244A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51000863555857,"sku":"NIN9780312089245","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52343628693777,"sku":"NLS9780312089245","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0312089244.jpg?v=1751357539"},{"product_id":"on-the-edge-of-survival-book-spike-walker-9780312286347","title":"On the Edge of Survival","description":"A Malaysian cargo ship on its way from Seattle, Washington to China ran aground off the coast of western Alaska's Aleutian Islands on December 8, 2004 during a brutal storm, leading to one of the most incredible Coast Guard rescue missions of all time. Two Coast Guard Jayhawk helicopters lifted off immediately from Air Station Kodiak during the driving storm in an effort to rescue the ship's eighteen crew members before it broke apart and sank in the freezing waters. Nine of the crew were lifted from the ship and dropped aboard a nearby Coast Guard cutter. But during attempts to save the last eight crew members, one of the Jayhawks was engulfed by a rogue wave that broke over the bow of the ship. When its engines flamed out from ingesting water, the Jayhawk crashed into the sea. The seven crew members from the ship who had been hoisted into the aircraft, along with the chopper's three-man crew, plunged into the bitterly cold ocean where hypothermia began to set in immediately. Interviewing all the surviving participants of the disaster and given access to documents and photos, acclaimed author Spike Walker has once again crafted a white-knuckle read of survival and death in the unforgiving Alaskan waters.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49578906452241,"sku":"GOR013730867","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49616877846801,"sku":"GOR008948999","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50299532181777,"sku":"CIN0312286341VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52103326597393,"sku":"CIN0312286341G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0312286341.jpg?v=1751292054"},{"product_id":"working-on-the-edge-book-spike-walker-9780312060022","title":"Working on the Edge","description":"\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 (90-mph Arctic winds, 25-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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn a breathtaking, action-packed account that combines his personal story with the stories of survivors of the industry's most harrowing disasters, Spike Walker re-creates the boom years of Alaskan crab fishing--a modern-day gold rush that drew hundreds of fortune-and adventure-hunters to Alaska's dangerous waters--and the crash that followed.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49675984503057,"sku":"CIN0312060025G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":49797712412945,"sku":"CIN0312060025A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50324912341265,"sku":"CIN0312060025VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0312060025.jpg?v=1751259752"},{"product_id":"coming-back-alive-book-spike-walker-9780312269715","title":"Coming Back Alive","description":"On the night of January 31st, 1998, the La Conte took on water and sank in the Fairweather fishing grounds off the coast of Sitka Alaska, in what was to be the worst storm in that state's history. Abandoning ship, the five-man crew clung desperately to life - and to each other - in ferocious 90 foot seas and freezing water. All five men would surely have perished were it not for the heroic efforts of the U.S. Coast Guard Search and Rescue teams who flew their choppers into the heart of the storm with little hope of rescuing anybody. Knocked nearly senseless by invisible williwaws (100 mph winds) that exploded out of stadium-sized wave-troughs and nearly stripped them from the sky, three separate attempts were made as the teams plunged into a meteorlogical hell. The third and last crew carried out the rescue without radio communication, all the while maneuvering in a gyrating, tar-black void in which sea and sky were seamlessly intermeshed. After reading this account, nobody will look at the Coast Guard in the same way again.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49725602529553,"sku":"CIN0312269714G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50133039907089,"sku":"CIN0312269714VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52610428797201,"sku":"GOR006540928","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0312269714.jpg?v=1751071001"},{"product_id":"alaska-book-spike-walker-9780312275624","title":"Alaska","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor thousands of years Alaska has called to us. The hardy souls who first answered that call endured bitter temperatures, maddening isolation, and often harrowing adventures for the privilege of living there, and many lost their lives in the process. From the earliest human explorers to Russian fur trappers, from Klondike gold seekers to today's miners and oilmen, from Alaska's native people to the millions of tourists who visit the state every year, people have come to Alaska to marvel at its beauty, rejoice in its riches, and measure themselves against its challenges. The wonder of Alaska, as well as its terrifying dangers, come to life in this anthology, featuring true adventures described by some of the best writers in the world, each hand picked by bestselling writer and Alaska aficionado Spike Walker. \u003ci\u003eAlaska: Tales of Adventure from the Last Frontier\u003c\/i\u003e will open your eyes and stir your soul as it celebrates the untamed beauty of Alaska.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Inside you will find unmatched tales of adventure by the following authors:\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Spike Walker\u003cbr\u003e Jack London\u003cbr\u003e Larry Kaniut\u003cbr\u003e Roger A. Caras\u003cbr\u003e Lew Freedman\u003cbr\u003e Dana Stabenow\u003cbr\u003e Gary Paulsen\u003cbr\u003e Jean Aspen\u003cbr\u003e Ann Mariah Cook\u003cbr\u003e John Muir\u003cbr\u003e Washington Irving\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e And many more...\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49786540818705,"sku":"GOR013784480","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50446107640081,"sku":"CIN0312275625A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50579480051985,"sku":"CIN0312275625VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51000842322193,"sku":"NIN9780312275624","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52103308149009,"sku":"CIN0312275625G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53363934658833,"sku":"GOR001845134","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53377520107793,"sku":"GOR005352548","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0312275625.jpg?v=1750909902"},{"product_id":"coming-back-alive-book-spike-walker-9780312302566","title":"Coming Back Alive","description":"On the night of January 31 1998, the fishing vessel La Conte took on water and sank off the coast of Sitka, Alaska, in what was to be the worst storm in the state's history. Abandoning ship, the five-man crew desperately clung to life - and each other - in ferocious 90 foot seas, and freezing water. All would surely have perished were it not for the efforts of the Coast Guard Search and Rescue teams who flew their choppers into the heart of the storm with little hope of rescuing anyone.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49786847428881,"sku":"CIN0312302568G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49879498391825,"sku":"CIN0312302568VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50200332894481,"sku":"GOR002803139","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51000865947921,"sku":"NIN9780312302566","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":52103150993681,"sku":"CIN0312302568A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52655651717393,"sku":"NLS9780312302566","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0312302568.jpg?v=1750908712"},{"product_id":"nights-of-ice-book-spike-walker-9780312156114","title":"Nights of Ice","description":"Collected for the first time in Nights of Ice, these eight true stories recount the harrowing ordeals of those who haul fish aboard Alaskan fishing vessels. As workers in one of the world's most dangerous - and lucrative - professions, the crewmen in Nights of Ice face a constant onslaught of roaring waves, stories-high swells, and life-stealing ice. Within seconds, a vessel such as the forty-ton Tidings can fill with icy water and slip into the depths, hurling crewmen into the freezing ocean and entombing the skipper inside its sinking hull. A ship like the Mia Dawn can run aground on a piece of submerged rock and immediately ice over, sinking steadily as her crew, battered by hypothermia and ninety-mph winds, assembles a life raft to await helicopter rescue by the U.S. Coast Guard. Tested by the elements, ravaged by their own emotions, the seamen in these extraordinary stories battle both fear and the violent unpredictability of nature. As Spike Walker's deft narration reveals, they do so with courage, instinct, and an unrelenting will to survive.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50478085505297,"sku":"CIN0312156111G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51146881401105,"sku":"CIN0312156111VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0312156111.jpg?v=1750844855"},{"product_id":"on-the-edge-of-survival-book-spike-walker-9780312604592","title":"On the Edge of Survival","description":"A Malaysian cargo ship on its way from Seattle, Washington to China ran aground off the coast of western Alaska's Aleutian Islands on December 8, 2004 during a brutal storm, leading to one of the most incredible Coast Guard rescue missions of all time. Two Coast Guard Jayhawk helicopters lifted off immediately from Air Station Kodiak during the driving storm in an effort to rescue the ship's eighteen crewmembers before it broke apart and sank in the freezing waters. Nine of the crew were lifted from the ship and dropped aboard a nearby Coast Guard cutter. But during attempts to save the last eight-crew members, one of the Jayhawks was engulfed by a rogue wave that broke over the bow of the ship. When its engines flamed out from ingesting water, the Jayhawk crashed into the sea. The seven-crew members from the ship who had been hoisted into the aircraft, along with the chopper's three-man crew, plunged into the bitterly cold ocean where hypothermia began to set in immediately. Interviewing all the surviving participants of the disaster and given access to documents and photos, acclaimed author Spike Walker has once again crafted a white-knuckle read of survival and death in the unforgiving Alaskan waters.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50892843745553,"sku":"CIN0312604599G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51000921358609,"sku":"NIN9780312604592","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52654411055377,"sku":"NLS9780312604592","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0312604599.jpg?v=1750973660"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-spike-walker.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}