A Must Read for fans of Deadliest Catch (or adventure)

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	• Time Bandit: Two Brothers, the Bering Sea, and One of the World's Deadliest Jobs Andy Hillstrand, Johnathan Hillstrand, ... Ballantine Books, 2008 - 240 pages average customer review:based on 40 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Interesting

After watching the program "Deadliest Catch" for the past 3 years , I was excited to get to read the Hillstrand's book. Although I wasnt crazy about the format, it was enlightening to learn about the lifestyles of Alaskan crab fishermen, during both on and off seasons. I am constanly impressed with the overwhelming sense of family these guys have and how important it is to them.

A Must Read for fans of Deadliest Catch (or adventure)

Can't go wrong with this book. You don't want to put it down once you get started. Be prepared to read some of it over and over again as you say to yourself "I can't believe this really happened".

Modern day adventure at its best (because its true).

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Time Bandit: Two brothers on the Bering Sea

One of the best books I have read in a very long time. I couldn't put it down!! If you are a fan of the Hillstrands and of the series "The Deadliest Catch", you will absolutely love this candid look into the world of crab fishing on the Bering Sea--one of the world's deadliest occupations. Johnathan and Andy share an intimate account of their personal and professional lives in a way no one else can. I can't recommend this book more highly.

An interesting adjunct to the TV show...

Die-hard fans of Discovery Channel's The Deadliest Catch will enjoy this book. It's a sort of dual biography of Andy and Johnathan Hillstrand, and it fills in many of the details the show has never discussed. Their complex relationship with their father, how they came to own the Time Bandit, the nature of their business partnership, etc., are all detailed. The book has an interesting structure, with chapters alternating between Johnathan and Andy, as Jonathan drifts alone on a disabled small fishing boat.

That structure is clearly the work of their co-author, Malcolm MacPherson. In fact, it would be much more accurate to say the book is "by Malcolm MacPherson, based on interviews with Andy and Johnathan Hillstrand" than to say, as it does on the cover, that it's "by Andy and Johnathan Hillstrand, with Malcolm MacPherson."

This is made clear right from the first page. Anyone who's watched the TV show knows that the Hillstrands have distinct manners of speaking, and they are not formal, nearly academic manners. MacPherson writes the brothers' chapters in a single, formal voice-- which is clearly his-- with occasional bits of each brother's actual words thrown in. At times, the effect is almost comical.

I would have preferred that the book be written in the brothers' distinctive and authentic voices. However, having said that, the book is an entertaining page-turner as it is. In addition, it contains a large amount of information about crab biology and behavior, the economics and politics of the fishing industry, and the difficulties of remaining in a business that is rapidly industrializing.

I enjoyed the book a great deal. It's a quick read that will please any fan of the Hillstrands and the TV show.

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?Many brave hearts are asleep in the deep, so beware, beware,? goes the chorus of an old sailors? sing-along that celebrates the allure and danger of the seafaring life. But make no mistake?there truly is much to beware for those who are drawn to risk their lives and seek their fortunes upon the waves. And perhaps none take more chances than the men and women who brave the tempestuous, bountiful waters of the Bering Sea. Season after season, they bond and battle with its icy depths, determined to reap yet one more rewarding harvest while eluding the ever-present threat of sudden, certain death. And among the rapidly diminishing ranks of these die-hard salts, brothers Andy and Johnathan Hillstrand have forged a reputation as fierce masters of their treacherous, enthralling trade. If you?ve watched their exploits on TV?s Deadliest Catch, you?ve only scratched the surface. To read Time Bandit is to step into their skins, smell the sea air, feel the frigid wind, and know with all your senses the exhilarating, and terrifying life on the edge.

Natives of tiny, fishing hamlet, Homer, Alaska; sons of a hard-bitten, highly successful fisherman; and born with brine in their blood, the Hillstrand boys couldn?t imagine a life without a swaying deck underfoot and a harvest of mighty Alaskan king crabs waiting to be pulled from the ocean floor. In pursuit of their daily catch, the brothers brave ice floes and heaving waves 60 feet high, the perils of 1000-lb steel traps thrown about by the punishing wind, and the constant menace of the open, hungry water.

Even the brothers? downtime on land?where the deadly realities of the unforgiving sea are never far from their minds?is lived as if borrowed: fast and hard, haunted by the knowledge that the next season at sea could end asleep in the deep.

Here is the Hillstrands? own heartfelt hymn to the brutally hard, gloriously independent, and mysteriously soul-satisfying life that has earned them their daily bread and defined their existence. By turns raucous and reflective, exhilarating and anguished, enthralling, suspenseful, and wise, Time Bandit chronicles a larger-than-life love affair as old as civilization itself?a love affair between striving, willful man and inscrutable, enduring nature.

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