{"product_id":"2940169641547","title":"Coming Back Alive: The True Story of the Most Harrowing Search and Rescue Mission Ever Attempted on Alaska's High Seas","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen the fishing vessel \u003ci\u003eLa Conte\u003c\/i\u003e sinks suddenly at night in one-hundred-mile-per-hour winds and record ninety-foot seas during a savage storm in January 1998, her five crewmen are left to drift without a life raft in the freezing Alaskan waters and survive as best they can.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne hundred fifty miles away, in Sitka, Alaska, an H-60 Jayhawk helicopter lifts off from America's most remote Coast Guard base in the hopes of tracking down an anonymous Mayday signal. A fisherman's worst nightmare has become a Coast Guard crew's desperate mission. As the crew of the \u003ci\u003eLa Conte\u003c\/i\u003e begin to die one by one, those sworn to watch over them risk everything to pull off the rescue of the century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpike Walker's memoir of his years as a deckhand in Alaska, \u003ci\u003eWorking on the Edge\u003c\/i\u003e, was hailed by James A. Michner as \"masterful . . . will become the definitive account of this perilous trade, an addition to the literature of the sea.\" In \u003ci\u003eComing Back Alive\u003c\/i\u003e, Walker has crafted his most devastating book to date. Meticulously researched through hundreds of hours of taped interviews with the survivors, this is the true account of the \u003ci\u003eLa Conte\u003c\/i\u003e's final voyage and the relationship between Alaskan fishermen and the search and rescue crews who risked their lives to save them.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tantor Audio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47162522140912,"sku":"2940169641547","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169641547_p0.jpg?v=1763689806","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169641547","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}