Dave Atcheson presents Dead Reckoning and Jeff Schultz presents Chasing Dogs
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Dave Atcheson discusses his memoir Dead Reckoning, Navigating a Life on the Last Frontier, Courting Tragedy on its High Seas. “It’s a story in which college students and “fish hippies” work in canneries alongside survivalists, rednecks, religious freaks, and deckhands with damning secrets in dangerous waters, driven by the need to feed an insatiable appetite for adventure.” Dave Atcheson works at Kenai Peninsula College. He is also the author of Hidden Alaska: Bristol Bay and Beyond and the guidebook Fishing Alaska's Kenai Peninsula. Photographer Jeff Schultz discusses Chasing Dogs – My Adventures as the Official Photographer Alaska’s Iditarod. “Since 1982, Schultz has served as Iditarod’s official photographer, traveling by plane, snow machine, snowshoes, and on foot to capture the race as no one else has…Over the course of his thirty-plus-year career, Schultz has become as iconic as the race itself, having experienced the same harsh trail conditions and weather hazards as the race participants while artfully chronicling their journeys. “ Jeff Schultz is also the author of Dogs of the Iditarod.
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