Down in Bristol Bay
Subtitle: high tides, hangovers, and harrowing experiences on Alaska's last frontier
By: Bob Durr.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 219
Subjects: Durr, R. A.; Frontier and pioneer life -- Alaska -- Bristol Bay Region.; Fishers -- Alaska -- Bristol Bay Region -- Biography.; Bristol Bay Region (Alaska) -- Social life and customs.; Bristol Bay Region (Alaska) -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Description: Dr. Robert Allen Durr, literary scholar and award-winning author, one-time rising star in the East Coast academic world, former confidant to legendary writer H.L. Mencken, was the youngest person to be named full professor at Syracuse University. Then he gave it all up and went searching for paradise. He found it in Alaska. He became the friend and partner of a wild man named Gene Pope, in whom he saw "alive and in person, the real thing: the authentic frontiersman." Down in Bristol Bay catapults the reader into this last frontier and onto a sea of storms and dangers, madcap bars and drinking parties, amid the camaraderie of some rugged Alaskans, mostly native fishermen known as D Inn Crowd.