North by Northwestern: A Seafaring Family on Deadly Alaskan Waters »

SIG HANSEN in the captain of the commercial fishing vessel, Northwestern. He has been featured on Discovery Channel’s Deadliest Catch from the pilot through the first five seasons of the show.

MARK SUNDEEN is an adventure writer and a frequent contributor to Outside, Men’s Journal, The New York Times Magazine, National Geographic Adventure, and McSweeney’s. He is the author of The Making of Toro and Car Camping.

Sig Hansen's rags-to-riches epic of his family’s struggle against deadly Alaskan seas and freezing shipwrecks to achieve the American Dream.

Prologue 1

1 Son of Norway 11

2 Karmoy Dreams 45

3 Ballard, America 75

4 North to Alaska 111

5 Let the Kid Run the Boat 145

6 Dutch 179

7 A Fleet Is Born 209

8 Boom and Bust 241

9 Lights, Camera, Fishing 263

10 Deliverance 291

Acknowledgments 305

Index 307