Last Run A True Story of Rescue and Redemption on the Alaska Seas

Name: Last Run A True Story of Rescue and Redemption on the Alaska Seas
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ISBN: 9780060956233

ISBN-10: 0060956232

ISBN-13: 9780060956233

Edition: N/A

Authors: Todd Lewan

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It was a desperate mission that made front-page headlines and captured the attention of millions of readers around the world. 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. Their would-be rescuers were 150 miles away at the Coast Guard station, with the nearby airport shut down by an avalanche. 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…

Book details

List price: $15.99
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 7/26/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

Todd Lewan joined the Associated Press as a correspondent in 1988. In 1996 he became an editor on AP's international desk, and later a national features writer. In 1998 he received several feature-writing prizes for this story.