Over the Edge: Death in Grand Canyon: Gripping Accounts of All Known Fatal Mishaps in the Most Famous of the World's Seven Natural Wonders
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...
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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.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780970097316 (097009731X)
ASIN: 097009731X
Publish date: May 25th 2001
Publisher: Puma Press
Pages no: 408
Edition language: English
Category:
Adventure,
Non Fiction,
Travel,
Biography,
History,
Environment,
Nature,
Crime,
True Crime,
Death,
Outdoors
This I bought at the gift shop at the Grand Canyon. I started reading it at the cash register and only stopped for meals and sleep until I was done. Honestly? Reading this book is like eating peanuts. It's hard to stop.It isn't that it isn't gruesome, it is. Sounds creepy but in this book death come...