Author : Michael Patrick Ghiglieri
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,32 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Accidents
ISBN : 9780984785803
Gripping accounts of all known fatal mishaps in the most famous of the World's Natural Wonders.
Author : Thomas Myers
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 25,10 MB
Release : 2012
Category :
ISBN : 9780984785827
Two veterans of decades of adventuring in Grand Canyon chronicle the 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 today. These accounts of the roughly 700 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.
Author : David Riley Bertsch
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 31,97 MB
Release : 2013-08-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1451698003
When someone tries to frame him for several murders, former East coast prosecutor-turned-fishing guide Jake Trent teams up with park ranger Noelle Klimpton to investigate a series of disturbing events that leads them to Yellowstone.
Author : Lee H. Whittlesey
Publisher : Roberts Rinehart
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 35,69 MB
Release : 2014-01-07
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1570984514
The chilling tome that launched an entire genre of books about the often gruesome but always tragic ways people have died in our national parks, this updated edition of the classic includes calamities in Yellowstone from the past sixteen years, including the infamous grizzly bear attacks in the summer of 2011 as well as a fatal hot springs accident in 2000. In these accounts, written with sensitivity as cautionary tales about what to do and what not to do in one of our wildest national parks, Whittlesey recounts deaths ranging from tragedy to folly—from being caught in a freak avalanche to the goring of a photographer who just got a little too close to a bison. Armchair travelers and park visitors alike will be fascinated by this important book detailing the dangers awaiting in our first national park.
Author : Rebecca Solnit
Publisher :
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 14,25 MB
Release : 2018-04-24
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781942185253
Photographs by Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe; text by Rebecca Solnit.
Author : Ellsworth Leonardson Kolb
Publisher :
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 17,3 MB
Release : 1915
Category : Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)
ISBN :
Author : Wallace Stegner
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 18,56 MB
Release : 1992-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1101075856
From the “dean of Western writers” (The New York Times) and the Pulitzer Prize winning–author of Angle of Repose and Crossing to Safety, a fascinating look at the old American West and the man who prophetically warned against the dangers of settling it In Beyond the Hundredth Meridian, Wallace Stegner recounts the sucesses and frustrations of John Wesley Powell, the distinguished ethnologist and geologist who explored the Colorado River, the Grand Canyon, and the homeland of Indian tribes of the American Southwest. A prophet without honor who had a profound understanding of the American West, Powell warned long ago of the dangers economic exploitation would pose to the West and spent a good deal of his life overcoming Washington politics in getting his message across. Only now, we may recognize just how accurate a prophet he was.
Author : Marguerite Henry
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 16,93 MB
Release : 1953
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0689714858
About a little burro who was found running wild along Bright Angel Creek. Grades 5-8.
Author : Dusti Bowling
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 13,90 MB
Release : 2020-09-08
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0316494682
Hatchet meets Long Way Down in this heartfelt and gripping novel in verse about a young girl's struggle for survival after a climbing trip with her father goes terribly wrong. One year after a random shooting changed their family forever, Nora and her father are exploring a slot canyon deep in the Arizona desert, hoping it will help them find peace. Nora longs for things to go back to normal, like they were when her mother was still alive, while her father keeps them isolated in fear of other people. But when they reach the bottom of the canyon, the unthinkable happens: A flash flood rips across their path, sweeping away Nora's father and all of their supplies. Suddenly, Nora finds herself lost and alone in the desert, facing dehydration, venomous scorpions, deadly snakes, and, worst of all, the Beast who has terrorized her dreams for the past year. If Nora is going to save herself and her father, she must conquer her fears, defeat the Beast, and find the courage to live her new life. Don't miss Dusti Bowling's new novel, Dust, available for preorder now.
Author : Michael Patrick Ghiglieri
Publisher :
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 19,67 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN :
Accounts of all known fatal mishaps in Yosemite National Park.
