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  • Young Men Go North
    Joe Upton
    'I went up on the Star of Alaska in 1918.' It was 1965 and an old timer was spinning a tale for 18-year-old Joe Upton. Of sailing up from San Francisco to Alaska’s remote and austere Bristol Bay aboard a square-rigged ship loaded with Chinese cannery workers, Norwegian and Italian fishermen, and American carpenters. They’d drop anchor in some remote Bristol Bay river, the last ...
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    16,14 €

  • Bering Sea Blues
    Joe Upton
    This a gripping memoir of a winter season of crab-fishing in the Bering Sea, filled with scary moments, killer ice, dangerous work, and-for the lucky ones-financial rewards. For others, survival was their reward.Just 25, Joe Upton was the youngest guy aboard when the 104-foot Flood Tide pulled out of Seattle in March 1971 headed for Dutch Harbor with 700-pound crab pots stacked...
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    16,18 €

  • Journeys Through the Inside Passage
    Joe Upton
    Writer and fisherman Joe Upton recounts the riveting stories of explorers of the past and seafarers of the present in JOURNEYS THROUGH THE INSIDE PASSAGE. His chronicle offers events vivid in their telling: the journey of widow  Muriel Blanchet, who solo navigated a small vessel in the 1930s with her five children; the failed meeting of explorers Alexander Mackenzie and Ge...
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    12,96 €

  • Alaska Blues
    Joe Upton
    FOR SEVEN MONTHS Joe Upton steered his 30-foot boat, the 'Doreen,' through the open channels and narrow, twisting passageways of Southeast Alaska, living the life of an itinerant commercial fisherman far from home.This is Upton’s award-winning account of that season--the lonely hours at sea as well as the close community of the fishing fleet; the sudden, violent storms and glor...
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    12,81 €

  • Runaways on the Inside Passage
    Joe Upton
    Young readers will thrill to this breathless story of courage and determination set in the Alaska wilderness. Abandoned by their mother in Seattle, thirteen-year-old twins Annie and David Ross enlist the help of Lars Hansen, an elderly commercial fisherman, to find their father in Alaska. In late November, when most fishing vessels are decommissioned for the winter, the trio se...
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    14,48 €