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 brine in
their blood, the Hillstrand boys couldn’t imagine a life
without 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 brave ice floes
and heaving 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 brave
hearts are asleep in the deep, so beware, beware.”
By turns raucous and reflective, exhilarating and
anguished, enthralling, suspenseful, and wise, Time Bandit
chronicles a larger-than-life love affair as old as
civilization itself—a love affair between striving, willful
man and inscrutable, enduring nature.
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