Description
A fork in the road confronted a young John Mickman. A choice. Thus began the authors hitchhiking journey to Kodiak, Alaska in the Spring of 1972. Once there, he embarked on a life as a commercial fisherman in the North Pacific and Bering Sea.
On the Brink: Tales of Lives Lived with Gusto is a collection of short stories, each one of which chronicles choices for individuals that chose take a chance. To live lives filled with wonder, adventure and purpose. To accept the risks these adventures presented. To live – on the brink.
Readers will be surprised and delighted with the humor, insights and adventures as the author tells of a few of the events during his ten years spent fishing off shore in perilous seas, and the remarkable people with whom he shared these adventures. On the Brink journals the learning curve of mastering the trade of a deckhand on a dragger/crabber, battling rouge waves, enduring lonely months off shore and the lessons of building a purposeful life in grueling circumstances.
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