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Highliners are the elite of the fishing world, the skippers and crews who make the biggest catches—salmon, king crab, halibut, shrimp—and deliver them first to the bustling canneries of Kodiak and Dutch Harbor. For these men—and for their women—the safe eight-hour day does not exist. It never will. Some fishermen get rich, many die broke. But they find a special joy in their work that can never be matched by the easier world of the landsman. No matter how great the hardship or how bad the storm, the highliners put out to sea in their primitive battle against the elements.The protagonist of the novel is Hank Crawford, a young greenhorn who first comes to Alaska to work in a cannery to earn money while on summer vacation from college. He is quickly hooked by the fisherman’s life, and this novel re-creates how a young man becomes a highliner. He succeeds because he is young enough, strong enough, and brave enough. He learns the brutal business from hard-fisted skippers, penny-pinching cannery managers, and the pirates of the fishing world. Hank also meets the tough women who endure the hardships of Alaska alongside their men.Journey with him as he learns to survive the elements (100-mile-an-hour winds, ice storms, tidal waves, and fire at sea) and attempts to become a highliner.

At this time of writing, The Ebook Highliners: A Novel has garnered 10 customer reviews with rating of 5 out of 5 stars. Not a bad score at all as if you round it off, it’s actually a perfect TEN already. From the looks of that rating, we can say the Ebook is Good TO READ!

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This is a long book and a good read. It's a novel about the Alaskan fishing industry and fishing for different species but reads like true events. In fact there are chapters in which the author steps in to explain or talk about different aspects of the Alaskan fishing industry or the fisheries themselves. All in all the book was very informative as well as entertaining. The writing was good but the Kindle version is full of errors in the conversion from print to digital. In some cases it was merely annoying. In other cases it was confusing, an entirely wrong word or gibberish such as YL ii. I almost dropped the rating from 5 to 4 because of it. Parts of the book had many such errors, some parts largely error free. The middle seemed to be the worst. There were times I didn't much like Hank Crawford, the central character. I kept thinking it's time to quit fishing, get a real job and assume your responsibilities. But fishing was his life. The book certainly shows the difficulty, the hard work and the dangers of fishing for a living in Alaska.

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