6x9 Softcover, 500 BW photos. Wild and rowdy and rough and ready, the heady days of 1980s' Alaska fishing felt like a wide-open frontier, and this memoir chronicles a lot of it—threaded with the true-life mystery of a local Sitka fisherman lost to the sea. As a young woman fishing the back deck and then as writer-photographer covering the waterfront for the fish papers, the author had a front-row seat to the upheaval in the fisheries and the closing of another frontier—the Last Frontier of the American West. "I can feel the mist on my skin, I can see the water, the mountains. You put me right there. That beautiful rhythm of writing—I've never read anything like it." christy mix