Over the Edge: Death in Grand Canyon
|
List Price: $22.95
Our Price: $14.80
Your Save: $ 8.15 ( 36% )
|
|
|
Average Customer Rating:  
|
|
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 979.133
EAN: 9780970097316
ISBN: 097009731X
Label: Puma Press
Manufacturer: Puma Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 408
Publication Date: 2001-05-25
Publisher: Puma Press
Studio: Puma Press
|
|
|
|
|
|
Spotlight customer reviews:
|
Customer Rating:
Summary: Grand Read about the Grand Canyon
Comment: I admit it. I cannot put down a good book about stupid people making bad decisions in a spectacular, and spectacularly dangerous, place. There are a lot of short stories in here about how things went really, really bad for people who were unprepared, stupid, didn't know what they were getting into, or were just pure unlucky.
I saw the book in Flagstaff the day before I started a week long raft trip through the canyon. I decided it was probably a bad idea to read it then. Once I got back however, I did read it and couldn't put it down. It was all the more real for having just been there and having gone through some of the extremes of temperature, rapids, etc. that the unfortunates detailed in the book went through. I was proud of the outfitters staff who had us well prepared.
Anyway if you are entertained by people who took too little water into 125 degree temperatures, or who decided to run the rapids without life jackets, or who may or may not have been murdered by a fiancee, read this book. Obviously it's not for everyone. But I loved it.
Customer Rating:
Summary: No Place for Cowards
Comment: You have many ways to die in Grand Canyon: fall, jump, get pushed, clown around, drown, starve, thirst, or be in an airliner collision over that vast chasm. Ghighlieri and Myers, a wilderness river guide and a Grand Canyon physician, methodically, graphically, painstakingly document the known deaths by name, date, events leading up to and subsequent rescue and/or recovery efforts. A fascinating read, should be required for anyone planning a visit to such a beautiful and potentially fatal attraction.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Should be Required Reading
Comment: Although it sounds a bit morbid, this book is a very good read. There is a good mix of entertaining anecdotes and statistical analysis. The authors delve into the root causes and chains of events that have led to the hundreds of deaths in the canyon and really drive home the point that people make the same mistakes over and over and over again. If you are thinking about hiking, backpacking, or rafting in the canyon, I highly reccomend reading this book first - it will help you make the right decisions about your time in the canyon.
Customer Rating:
Summary: grand canyon
Comment: Over the Edge: Death in Grand Canyon
Excellent service, great book, well laid out and very informative
Customer Rating:
Summary: once you start,you can't put it down
Comment: I was at the grand canyon when I bought this book-I didnt want to buy it,but a stranger had told me about it,and not wanting to tell a lie in case I ran into this person again (which I did)I picked it up and glanced at the first few chapters-within minutes I was hooked-it is an unbelievable read - to even think about what some of those victims must have gone thru was terrifying-yet it is one of those books that once you start to read it,you can't stop!It made me respect mother nature even more and appreciate the safety rules and regulations the forest service puts up,no matter how trivial it may seem to be.
|
|
|
Editorial Reviews:
|
|
Gripping accounts of all known fatal mishaps in the most famous of the World's Seven Natural Wonders. Two veterans of decades of adventuring in Grand Canyon chronicle the first complete and comprehensive history of Canyon misadventures. These episodes span the entire era of visitation from the time of the first river exploration by John Wesley Powell and his crew of 1869 to that of tourists falling off its rims in Y2K. These accounts of the 550 people who have met untimely deaths in the Canyon set a new high water mark for offering the most astounding array of adventures, misadventures, and life saving lessons published between any two covers. Over the Edge promises to be the most intense yet informative book on Grand Canyon ever written.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
