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Title: Death, Daring and Disaster: Search and Rescue in the National Parks by Charles R. Butch Farabee ISBN: 1-57098-202-3 Publisher: Roberts Rinehart Pub Pub. Date: April, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (4 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Left me wanting to know more
Comment: If you are interested in the subject matter, it would be hard not to enjoy this book. I was amazed at the number of bodies that had to be left in the parks because they couldn't be retreived for one reason or another. I was also surprised to learn how many planes had crashed onto the lands or into the mountains of national parks. There are also the things you would expect, such as falls from mountain climbing and people who get lost while hiking. It was sad to read about the rangers who risked their lives and became heroes to save others, only to read about some of them succumbing to the dangers of the park themselves later on in the book. Many of the stories made me wish there was additional information, because I wanted to know more about what happened to these people. Overall a very engrossing book.
Rating: 4
Summary: Compelling Gathering of Varied Narratives
Comment: As the NPS's Chief National Emergency Services Coordinator the author spent many years in the search and rescue business. In the course of his career he had access to the original records and was able to select most dramatic and cautionary stories. Each covers at most a few pages but the reader will want to keep reading. Very hard to put down and a substantial amount of research and good writing.
Most emphasis is on the post 1940 period since WW II when the development of modern aerial search and rescue techniques, as pioneered in the armed services, influenced the postwar organization and methods. The Air Force became responsible for inland activities and the Coast Guard for the sea margins. Ground based searches remained the primary responsiblity of the big land management agencies such as the Park Service, Forest Service, and Bureau of Land Management.
Rating: 4
Summary: Take it with Salt
Comment: An excellent collection of decades of searches and rescues in National Parks all over the USA. Each search and rescue story runs from a paragraph to a page or two. Helpful photos are included for many of the stories, plus the book has great chronologies for each decade and a very good index. The author highlights National Parks' efforts - often ignoring, misconstruing, or discounting the efforts of other agencies involved in many of the search and rescues - a bias which occasionally mars this book.
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Title: National Park Ranger: An American Icon by Charles R. Farabee, Fran P. Mainella ISBN: 1570983925 Publisher: Roberts Rinehart Pub Pub. Date: July, 2003 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Death in Yellowstone: Accidents and Foolhardiness in the First National Park by Lee H. Whittlesey ISBN: 1570980217 Publisher: Roberts Rinehart Pub Pub. Date: June, 1995 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Over the Edge: Death in Grand Canyon by Michael P. Ghiglieri, Thomas M. Myers ISBN: 097009731X Publisher: Puma Press LLC Pub. Date: 25 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Lost in the Yellowstone: Truman Everts's "Thirty-Seven Days of Peril" by Truman Everts, Lee H. Whittlesey ISBN: 0874804817 Publisher: Univ of Utah Pr (Trd) Pub. Date: September, 1995 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: The Falling Season: Inside the Life and Death Drama of Aspen's Mountain Rescue Team by Hal Clifford ISBN: 0898866332 Publisher: Mountaineers Books Pub. Date: March, 1999 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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