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 enlarge | Authors: Andy Hillstrand, Johnathan Hillstrand, Malcolm Macpherson
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Category: Book
List Price: $25.00
Buy New: $14.36
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Avg. Customer Rating:  48 reviews
Sales Rank: 27130
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 240
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6 x 1.1
ISBN: 0345503724
Dewey Decimal Number: 639.570922
EAN: 9780345503725
ASIN: 0345503724
Publication Date: April 8, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Time Bandit September 1, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Time Bandit is a wonderful read for Deadliest Catch fans. This volume isn't just fishing and crabbing, it is the Hillstrand family.
The book is intelligently written. It can be a one afternoon read or read chapter by chapter. There is some foul language and one inappropriate picture.
 Time Bandit: Two Brothers,the Bering Sea and One of the World's Deadliest Jobs August 31, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
I am a huge fan of the TV series The Deadliest Catch. Therefore, I thought I would really enjoy this book by the Hilstrand brothers. Unfortunately, the author who helped write the book, uses language you would never hear the brothers speak! The stories they were telling were interesting 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 purchased a new hardback copy)
This Book is a Deadly Catch August 27, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Whether you are a fan of the show or have never heard of the Bering Sea let alone the successful series, this book is a must. Written by two captains of the show, they share their lives from when they were kids to the present day. The book will, like the crab pots they use, ensnare you and hold you captive until the end. It is a fantastic read of what really happens to crab fishermen and what they go through to give us that sort after delicacy on the restaurant table. If you have seen the show, then this book is a must as the book is more realistic and more gritty. If you have not, then read the book anyway, just to get an insight of a day in the life of a crab fisherman.
Time Bandit: Two brothers on the Bering Sea August 15, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
One of the best books I have read in a very long time. I couldn't put it down!! If you are a fan of the Hillstrands and of the series "The Deadliest Catch", you will absolutely love this candid look into the world of crab fishing on the Bering Sea--one of the world's deadliest occupations. Johnathan and Andy share an intimate account of their personal and professional lives in a way no one else can. I can't recommend this book more highly.
 An interesting adjunct to the TV show... August 15, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Die-hard fans of Discovery Channel's The Deadliest Catch will enjoy this book. It's a sort of dual biography of Andy and Johnathan Hillstrand, and it fills in many of the details the show has never discussed. Their complex relationship with their father, how they came to own the Time Bandit, the nature of their business partnership, etc., are all detailed. The book has an interesting structure, with chapters alternating between Johnathan and Andy, as Jonathan drifts alone on a disabled small fishing boat.
That structure is clearly the work of their co-author, Malcolm MacPherson. In fact, it would be much more accurate to say the book is "by Malcolm MacPherson, based on interviews with Andy and Johnathan Hillstrand" than to say, as it does on the cover, that it's "by Andy and Johnathan Hillstrand, with Malcolm MacPherson."
This is made clear right from the first page. Anyone who's watched the TV show knows that the Hillstrands have distinct manners of speaking, and they are not formal, nearly academic manners. MacPherson writes the brothers' chapters in a single, formal voice-- which is clearly his-- with occasional bits of each brother's actual words thrown in. At times, the effect is almost comical.
I would have preferred that the book be written in the brothers' distinctive and authentic voices. However, having said that, the book is an entertaining page-turner as it is. In addition, it contains a large amount of information about crab biology and behavior, the economics and politics of the fishing industry, and the difficulties of remaining in a business that is rapidly industrializing.
I enjoyed the book a great deal. It's a quick read that will please any fan of the Hillstrands and the TV show.
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