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Lost at Sea by Patrick Dillon (2000, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherTouchstone
ISBN-100684869098
ISBN-139780684869094
eBay Product ID (ePID)1630602
Product Key Features
Book TitleLost at Sea
Number of Pages288 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicMaritime, Ecosystems & Habitats / Oceans & Seas, Ships & Shipbuilding / History, United States / General
Publication Year2000
IllustratorYes
GenreNature, Law, Transportation, History
AuthorPatrick Dillon
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight10.8 Oz
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition21
ReviewsSusan Salter Reynolds Los Angeles Times Book Review A gripping account... Lost At Sea is a better book than Sebastian Junger's The Perfect Storm, even more thrilling, more mysterious., Rinker BuckUSA TodayDillon meticulously recreates the events leading up to the 1983 capsizing of theAmericusandAltair...[and] artfully chronicles the lives of the lost fishermen and their families., Susan Salter ReynoldsLos Angeles Times Book ReviewA gripping account...Lost At Seais a better book than Sebastian Junger'sThe Perfect Storm,even more thrilling, more mysterious., Sudip Bose The Washington Post Book World A meticulously detailed narrative, pieced together with the deft touch of a suspense writer -- a fine accomplishment., Tom WalkerThe Denver PostPatrick Dillon's deftly writtenLost at Seais more than just another man-vs.-the-sea story. It's an engrossing, evenhanded look at how greed, negligence, naivete and downright stupidity can lead to tragedy when man and nature collide., Tom Walker The Denver Post Patrick Dillon's deftly written Lost at Sea is more than just another man-vs.-the-sea story. It's an engrossing, evenhanded look at how greed, negligence, naivete and downright stupidity can lead to tragedy when man and nature collide., Rinker Buck USA Today Dillon meticulously recreates the events leading up to the 1983 capsizing of the Americus and Altair ...[and] artfully chronicles the lives of the lost fishermen and their families., Sudip BoseThe Washington Post Book WorldA meticulously detailed narrative, pieced together with the deft touch of a suspense writer -- a fine accomplishment.
Dewey Decimal917.97
SynopsisOn February 3, 1983, the men aboard Americus and Altair, two state-of-the-art crabbing vessels, docked in their home port of Anacortes, Washington, prepared to begin a grueling three-month season fishing in the notorious Bering Sea. Eleven days later, on Valentine's Day, the overturned hull of the Americus was found drifting in calm seas, with no record of even a single distress call or trace of its seven-man crew. The Altair vanished altogether. Despite the desperate search that followed, no evidence of the vessel or its crew would ever be found. Fourteen men were lost. And the tragedy would mark the worst disaster in the history of U.S. commercial fishing. With painstaking research and spellbinding prose, acclaimed journalist Patrick Dillon brings to life the men who were lost, the dangers that commercial fishermen face, the haunting memories of the families left behind...and reconstructs the intense investigation that ensued, which for the first time exposed the dangers of an industry that would never again be the same.
