Time Bandit: Two Brothers, the Bering Sea, and One of the World’s Deadliest Jobs
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- ISBN13: 9780345504128
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
Every Alaskan king crab season, brothers Andy and Johnathan Hillstrand risk their lives and seek their fortunes upon the treacherous waters of the Bering Sea. Sons of a hard-bitten, highly successful fisherman, and born with salt water in their blood, the Hillstrand boys couldn’t imagine a life lacking a swaying deck underfoot and a harvest of mighty king crabs waiting to be pulled from the ocean floor. In pursuit of their daily catch, the brothers courageous ice floes and bursting at the seams waves sixty feet high, the perils of thousand-pound steel traps thrown about by the punishing wind, and the constant menace of the open, hungry water—epitomized in the chorus of a haunting sailors’ sing-along: “Many courageous hearts are asleep in the deep, so beware, beware.”
By turns raucous and reflective, exhilarating and anguished, enchanting, suspenseful, and wise, Time Bandit chronicles a larger-than-life like affair as ancient as civilization itself—a like affair between striving, willful man and inscrutable, enduring scenery.
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I’ve been watching the Deadliest Catch now for three seasons. And since the last season finished (what, maybe 2 weeks ago?) I’ve been going through Deadliest Catch withdrawl. I went to order the seasons on DVD and saw this book. The Time Bandit is one of my favorite boats to follow on the program, so I chose to order the book and was really looking forwards to reading it.
It arrived today and I have to admit that I ongoing thumbing through the photos in the middle of the book first. There are some fantastic photos of the captains as boys, with their father, with their additional fishing brother Neal, their grandma, their mom, their children, cute puppies, etc. And then I reflect it is the last photo is a rather sophmoric sketch of a naked lady drawn on the side of a truck?? What were they thinking? What was their publisher/editor thinking when they were deciding on photos to include?? It’s really tacky and tasteless.
I reflect they have to remember that they have a huge female following. And the ladies aren’t going to like it.
Again, what were they thinking?
Sorry to be so rough on these guys, but the book is going back. I don’t even want to read it now.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
In excellent faith I paid my money to get the book “Time Bandit: Two Brothers, the Bering Sea, and One of the World’s Deadliest Jobs”. I never once heard back from this seller after repeated attempts to contact her, and have yet to receive any product from her either. Terrible business. Get rid of this one, Amazon.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I just finished reading Time Bandit. I wish I had spent my time better. The book was written by Andy and Johnathan Hillstrand, with William MacPherson. The brothers Hillstrand are among the boat captains that star in the Discovery Channel’s Deadliest Catch. They are Alaskan king crab fisherman.
When I first got the book title, my first thought was about the movie Time Bandits. That movie is one of my favorites. The name of the book is the name of the authors’ boat: Time Bandit. The authors’ father named the boat after the movie.
The tale opens with Johnathan out fishing on another of his smaller boats. The engine dies and the battery dies, leaving him stranded on the Bering Sea with no way to call for help. The book then jumps back and into the world from the stranded boat to past tales of the adventures and misadventures of the brothers. The obvious comparison is to Sebastian Junger’s The Perfect Storm. I am not sure whether it is a honest comparison or not. Regardless, as I was reading the book I kept thinking about The Perfect Storm.
I have not watched the Deadliest Catch, so I was not familiar with king crab fishing or the brothers Hillstrand. Perhaps I would have loved the book more if I had watched some of the show first. But I didn’t. After reading the book, I am not any more inclined to watch the show.
Johnathan comes across as cliche. He drinks hard, works hard and lives hard. Johnathan describes himself as indestructible. So it is no surprise that at the end of the book he is rescued just in the nick of time. I thought his brother Andy sounded more appealing as he tries to balance his time fishing in Alaska with his horse farm in Indiana.
You can better spend your time re-reading The Perfect Storm or Linda Greenlaw’s The Hungry Ocean.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
If you’ve watched the show on Discovery channel, there’s not a lot new here in the book. Fluff, trying to cash in on their 15 minutes of fame.
John
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I am a huge fan of the TV series The Deadliest Catch. Therefore, I thought I would really delight in this book by the Hilstrand brothers. Sorry to say, the leader who helped write the book, uses language you would never hear the brothers speak! The tales they were telling were appealing but the language/descriptions of events just weren’t realistic! I do not reccomend it unless it can be bought used for a buck or two. (I bought a new hardback copy)
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5