SALTY READING MATERIAL

SlabQuest · 12-03-2003, 09:43 AM

Now that winter is almost here, I will be spending less time on the water and more time reading. If I can't do it, then I'll read about it. Here are some of the books I've enjoyed:

William McCloskey:
Highliners

Spike Walker:
Nights of Ice
Coming Back Alive
Working on the Edge

Sebastian Junger:
The Perfect Storm

Linda Greenlaw:
The Hungry Ocean

Joe Upton:
Alaska Blues

Ernest Hemingway:
The Old Man and the Sea

It's funny, I really hate most all of the commercial fishing operations in my state, but I like to read about them elsewhere.

What are some other good books?

PeterMac · 12-03-2003, 09:54 AM

I have read Spike's "Working on the Edge". It was great! I'll haev to check out his other books.

PeterMac

Threemuch · 12-03-2003, 09:57 AM

Dang it! I read all those! Good thread.

Miss B Haven · 12-03-2003, 11:11 PM

Sheesh :blush: ..... thought I'd find something off color on this thread. :grin:

On a lighter note:

A River Why?
Patrick McManus (any of them)
A book I loaned out (can't remember the name- it was 3 years ago) which is a collection of short true (I swear) stories from an alaskan guide and other guides/outfitters/charters etc that he put togther. Funniest book I ever read. Had to get sewed up after reading the story about a gal hooking a humpback whale that swam under a charter. She refused to let the crew cut him off. She swore it was a legal hookup! Anybody know this book? I guess I need to buy another copy.

Jimmy Carl Black · 12-07-2003, 09:53 PM

The Sea Wolf

8knots · 12-08-2003, 09:55 AM

Here are some more good ones in the same arena of great stories told by commercial fisherman with a literay bent and love of the sea.

The Fisherman's Son by Michael Koepf.c 1998

Down in Bristol Bay by Bob Durr.c 1999

Alaska Blues..A Season of Fishing the Inside Passage by Joe Upton.c1977/1998

backlash442 · 12-16-2003, 03:14 PM

Tred Bartta. Arrogant, but the guy can fish.

kenai · 12-16-2003, 05:12 PM

In no particular order

1.Endurance Shacketon's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing

2.Voyage by Sterling Hayden

Anything by Patrick O'Brian (Master and Commander,Blue at the Mizzen etc.)

Not so much about fishing but heavy on the salt water adventures.

8knots · 12-16-2003, 10:38 PM

I am a huge Wilbur Smith fan. Years ago I read the one about the big salvage tugs off South Africa and the Arctic. Can't remember the title.... but some exciting descriptions of ocean rescue of ships in monster conditions.

SlabQuest · 12-16-2003, 11:11 PM

The Sea Wolf. Jack London. How did I miss that one?

For salty fiction I like:

Wilbur Smith:
Birds of prey
Monsoon

Clive Cussler:
dozens of good ones!

The Fishermans Son -- Thanks 8 knots, I'll check it out.

SlabQuest · 12-18-2003, 09:05 AM

The book about the salvage operations was "Hungry as the Sea". It was a dandy. Another salty one he wrote was "Eye of the Tiger". It had some good sport billfishing content. Just about all his stories are located near Africa. Wilbur's Egypt books are excellent (River God, The Seventh Scroll & Warlock).