March 6, 2015 — An Alaskan author has published a new book about the adventurous life — and sometimes tragedy — of commercial fishing.
Dead Reckoning is Dave Atcheson’s third non-fiction book. In it the author, now based in Sterling, Alaska, revisits his early arrival in the state and his introduction to commercial fishing — and the harrowing near-disaster that changed the lives of everyone on his crew.
Dave Atcheson will read from “Dead Reckoning” at 6:30 PM on Monday, March 9, at Old Harbor Books in Sitka.
Dave Atcheson’s story is near-universal for people who come to Alaska, propelled either by romance or economics, to try their hands at commercial fishing.
This is every new crewman’s waking nightmare.
“One of the deckhands on the Lancer, when I first got here, was wanted for questioning in a murder. And I buddied-up with him because I was so terrified of the old skipper who was a screamer — a notorious screamer.”
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