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Jun 29, 2004 · In late January 1998, after a miserable stretch of fishing that hadn't paid for even their groceries, the five-man crew of a seventy-nine-year-old Alaska schooner called the La Conte risked one last run to the Fairweather Grounds, despite the approach of bad weather.
Jun 28, 2005 · In January 1998, in the dead of an Alaskan winter, a cataclysmic Arctic storm with hurricane-force winds and towering seas forced five fishermen to abandon their vessel in the Gulf of Alaska and left them adrift in thirty-eight-degree water with no lifeboat.
- Paperback
- Todd Lewan
Jun 29, 2004 · In late January 1998, after a miserable stretch of fishing that hadn't paid for even their groceries, the five-man crew of a seventy-nine-year-old Alaska schooner called the La Conte risked one last run to the Fairweather Grounds, despite the approach of bad weather.
- Hardcover
- Todd Lewan
Jul 26, 2005 · The Last Run is the epic tale of the wreck of the oldest registered fishing schooner in Alaska, a hellish Arctic tempest, and the three teams of aviators in helicopters who withstood 140-mph gusts and hovered alongside waves that were ten stories high.
Jun 28, 2005 · The Last Run: A True Story of Rescue and Redemption on the Alaska Seas by Todd Lewan. Publication Date: June 28, 2005; Paperback: 400 pages; Publisher: Harper Perennial; ISBN-10: 0060956232; ISBN-13: 9780060196486
Jan 1, 1987 · The Last Run. Leonard B. Scott. 4.36. 306 ratings8 reviews. You don't choose your comrades in war--they are assigned to you. In the jungle, there is no past or future, and men from totally different backgrounds forget their differences and struggle to survive and help you survive, in this unforgettable novel of Vietnam.
THE LAST RUN: A True Story of Rescue and Redemption on the Alaska Seas Todd Lewan, . . HarperCollins, $24.95 (368pp) ISBN 978-0-06-019648-6
The book shows us the raw gambler's greed of the fisherman's life, the desperation and the incredible camaraderie that keeps a drowning, freezing man holding his more feeble workmate in a fierce embrace despite the weight dragging them both down to a briny doom.
In late January 1998, after a miserable stretch of fishing that hadn't paid for even their groceries, the five-man crew of a seventy-nine-year-old Alaska schooner called the La Conte risked one last run to the Fairweather Grounds, despite the approach of bad weather.
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