Red Summer - New Release by Bill Carter

A vivid, unforgettable account of the danger, pain, and joy of working on a salmon fishing boat and living in a small village on the farthest edge of Alaska.

Set in the tiny Native village of Egegik on the shores of Alaska’s Bristol Bay, Bill Carter’s Red Summer is the thrilling story of one man’s journey from novice to seasoned fisherman over the course of four beautiful, brutal summers in one of the earth’s few remaining wild places. As millions of salmon race toward their annual spawning grounds, Carter learns the ancient, back breaking trade of the set net fisherman, one of the most exhilarating and dangerous jobs in the world.

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Fools Rush In

Some trips are chosen, others choose you. When tragedy strikes Bill Carter's life he finds himself drawn to a war zone. Sharing his extraordinary journey into a modern heart of darkness, the besieged city of Sarajevo, we meet a man rebuilding the ruins of his former self in the most unlikely of places.

Fools Rush In takes us on an emotional rollercoaster ride from Alaska to Dublin to Los Angeles to Sarajevo and back again while Carter seeks answers to questions he didn't even know he had. Compelling, humorous, hopeful and at times almost beyond belief, it is nonetheless all true.

For more information about this book and Bill's film Miss Sarajevo visit billcarter.cc
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Red Summer is a wonderful book about a rare subject, the mysterious pleasure of brutally hard work. In this case it is the salmon run in Alaska and Bill Carter proves again that he is a first rate writer in the fascinating tradition of Junger and Krakauer."
-Jim Harrison, author of Legends of the Fall, Returning to Earth

Red Summer Photographs

View the selection of photographs by Bill Carter from Red Summer. They are signed, in a limited series and available for purchase.

News

BILL CARTER BECOMES HONORARY CITIZEN OF SARAJEVO

SARAJEVO, Bosnia (April 10, 2009)
Bill was awarded his honorary citizenship!
go to: official Sarajevo website

Go Fishin' in Alaska

Bill has compiled a great list of links if you want to try the working life in the Alaskan Fisheries!

Go fall off the edge of the earth and you just might get to a place where life still throbs. Bill Carter fell and felt the blasts of the Bering Sea blow away our pious lies about ourselves and the thing we call nature. This magical book sketches the way to get home before we kill all hope of home. And the fishing ain't bad either.
- Charles Bowden, author of Down By The River, A Shadow in the City