{"product_id":"9781429973274","title":"Down in Bristol Bay: High Tides, Hangovers, and Harrowing Experiences on Alaska's Last Frontier","description":"\u003cp\u003eDr. Robert Allen Durr - literary scholar, award-winning author, former confidant to legendary writer H. L. Mencken, and one-time rising star in the East Coast academic world - decided one day to give it all up and move to a remote region of Alaska in search of paradise.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConvinced that truth, beauty, and goodness could still be found in the wild, Durr bought a boat and journeyed to Bristol Bay in hopes of becoming a commercial salmon fisherman and earning a living.  Catapulting the reader into this last frontier and onto a sea of storms and dangers, madcap bars and drinking parties, amid the camaraderie of some rugged Alaskans, mostly native fishermen known as D Inn Crowd, \u003ci\u003eDown in Bristol Bay\u003c\/i\u003e chronicles a hard life, but not without songs and ballads, misadventures and follies, occasionally of burlesque proportions, on land as well as at sea.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCombining elements of Krakaur's \u003ci\u003eInto the Wild\u003c\/i\u003e, Matthiessen's \u003ci\u003eThe Snow Leopard\u003c\/i\u003e, Junger's \u003ci\u003eThe Perfect Storm\u003c\/i\u003e, McPhee's \u003ci\u003eComing Into the Country\u003c\/i\u003e, and even Tom Wolfe's \u003ci\u003eThe Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Down in Bristol Bay\u003c\/i\u003e is a powerful and raucous memoir of a man who abandoned the safe world of academia for the Alaskan wilderness to find his own kind of primal sanity.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"St. Martin's Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47127327834352,"sku":"9781429973274","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781429973274_p0.jpg?v=1769903190","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781429973274","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}