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When Peter DeLeo set out one Sunday morning on a sightseeing and photography trip over the central Sierra Nevada mountains in California, he had no idea that he would soon be fighting for his life with the odds stacked very much against him. DeLeo's single-engine plane encountered turbulence, and he and his two passengers crashed in the mountains. All three survived the accident but sustained multiple injuries. DeLeo had broken ribs, a shattered ankle, and a badly damaged shoulder. After assessing their situation, they decided that the passengers should remain with the plane while DeLeo would hike out to bring back help. It was already winter; he left the limited emergency supplies with the plane's passengers; and he was hampered by his injuries, but DeLeo was determined to get help. He found or improvised shelter at night, carefully warmed himself during the daytime, drank from small pools of melted snow and ice, and slowly but steadily made his way toward civilization. Suffering from exhaustion and on the verge of collapse, he found a hot spring that provided him with temporary warmth and insects to eat. Injuries, dehydration, malnutrition, and a two-day blizzard slowed him, and a rockslide nearly killed him just as he glimpsed the valley and highway that he so desperately sought, but DeLeo's courage saw him through.
Meanwhile, Civil Air Patrol planes searched fruitlessly for the lost plane and for survivors; twice, DeLeo frantically tried to signal the search planes, but to no avail. When DeLeo finally reached a highway, he found it almost impossible to convince the authorities that he was the lost pilot who had been all but given up for dead. His astonishing survival, one of the most remarkable feats of endurance on record, made national and even international news.
Now, for the first time, Peter DeLeo tells his remarkable story in gripping detail. His amazing saga is destined to become a classic.
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"When Peter DeLeo set out one Sunday morning on a sightseeing and photography trip over the central Sierra Nevada mountains in California, he had no idea that he would soon be fighting for his life with the odds stacked very much against him. DeLeo's single-engine plane encountered turbulence, and he and his two passengers crashed in the mountains. All three survived the accident but sustained multiple injuries. DeLeo had broken ribs, a shattered ankle, and a badly damaged shoulder. After assessing their situation, they decided that the passengers should remain with the plane while DeLeo would hike out to bring back help. It was already winter; he left the limited emergency supplies with the plane's passengers; and he was hampered by his injuries, but DeLeo was determined to get help. He found or improvised shelter at night, carefully warmed himself during the daytime, drank from small pools of melted snow and ice, and slowly but steadily made his way toward civilization. Suffering from exhaustion and on the verge of collapse, he found a hot spring that provided him with temporary warmth and insects to eat. Injuries, dehydration, malnutrition, and a two-day blizzard slowed him, and a rockslide nearly killed him just as he glimpsed the valley and highway that he so desperately sought, but DeLeo's courage saw him through. Meanwhile, Civil Air Patrol planes searched fruitlessly for the lost plane and for survivors; twice, DeLeo frantically tried to signal the search planes, but to no avail. When DeLeo finally reached a highway, he found it almost impossible to convince the authorities that he was the lost pilot who had been all but given up for dead. His astonishing survival, one of the most remarkable feats of endurance on record, made national and even international news. Now, for the first time, Peter DeLeo tells his remarkable story in gripping detail. His amazing saga is destined to become a classic. "
Customer Reviews:
be better if it was true.......2007-10-09
I am a pilot and this story was great until I really started to think about it. First off, the crash didn't sound very likely. Turns out it did NOT happen that way at all.
Then after the crash some things just didn't add up. The pilot, with 16 broken bones and NO FOOD, does a 2 week long hike in the middle of winter over terrain and in weather that would likely kill most people in good health that did have adequate supplies. He repeatedly does things that sound beyond impossible for someone with so many injuries and starved as well.
Why did he take off on this hike and leave an UNINJURED man behind? Wouldn't it have made more sense for the guy with no injuries to be the hiker? Why didn't they have adequate supplies for flying in this kind of remote terrain. A handheld radio would have had them out in a day or two. Two close enocunters with aircraft are described where it sounds like the pilot could almost have hit them with a stick and no one saw him with a red coat against white snow? The "rescue mission" by his brother riding a motorcycle on closed icy mountain roads sounds stupendously idiotic. Why not take a Jeep? This guy was very lucky not to be SAR mission #2 himself. Then at the end of the story he finally gets to a hospital with 16 broken bones and nearly dead from starvation and they put a cast on his ankle and SEND HIM HOME? Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, as the saying goes.
Gratuitous and Self Serving.......2007-02-18
It's nice to see that other readers of this book share my skepticism of the story. I was first struck by his strange obsession with crash landing a plane in the mountains. In fact, he seems to have chosen this type of plane (a Maule) specifically because it could fly low and slow, giving the pilot a greater chance for a controlled crash landing. When in the air with his friends, he mentioned that he would often look for small patches of land in the mountains in which to crash land the plane. Honestly, I think he wanted to crash and be a hero- his "friends" be damned. The best chance for his and Wave's survival would obviously have been to first wait a few days near the wreckage (especially if the EPIRB was working as he implied). Then, the obvious choice would have been to have Wave try to hike out and bring back help, or to take Wave along with him. Frankly, had he taken his FAR less injured friend with him, they would probably both be alive today. I dont for one minute believe he ran into any black bear or mountain lion because his descriptions of the encounters were totally over the top. I dont believe he slid over any cliff and wound up hanging by a forearm. I dont believe he climbed any trees and I dont believe he found "donuts" of bear scat and used them to insulate his fort or to use as a "pillow". Total nonsense. A total jerk that, rather than thank his sister and girlfriend for their TLC, scolded them by saying "Dont touch me, if you touch me you will hurt me".
survival fairy tale.......2006-06-30
other reviewers have pointed out that the author of this book lied about the reason for the crash and provided government website links to prove it. i am not a pilot, but i have to bring up other points that just do not make sense. keep in mind, the author tries to portray himself as having some knowledge of survival and even states that his friends described him as a survivalist.
shortly after crashing the author decides that their only chance to be rescued is if someone sets off on foot to look for help. one passenger is trapped in the plane. one has, according to the author, one bruise on his forhead. peter, the author, has seven broken ribs, a shatterd left ankle, a broken shoulder and this is how his friend describes his head: "...your eyelid is torn, and your face and head are starting to swell real bad. you've got cuts and gashes on your face and head, too." he also says he no longer has the full use of his fingers or hands. the obvious question is, why was peter the one to set off on foot? the author never gives us any insight as to the decision making process.
the author tells us what supplies they had: 2 large camping tarps, 20 feet of rope, 3 flares, a lighter, a knife, 2 flashlights, assorted tools, a loaf of fruit bread, a jug of water, a jug of juice, and a couple of apples. feeling that their survival may depend on him succeeding, the author chooses...nothing!
during his trek through the wilderness he encounters a black bear, which he says average 300 to 400 pounds. i almost laughed when he said he could feel the ground tremble when the bear took a step! we have a lot of people in this country that weigh that much, and the ground never trembles when they walk past! i am sure anyone that has been to the circus and gotten close to elephants that are walking will tell you that something as small as a black bear will not make the ground tremble! but, i guess peter's goal was to tell an exciting tale, not an accurate one.
after being rescued, and suffering the pain of all those broken bones along with fingers and toes that are black from frostbite, the author decides to go home for a night or so and get some good reast before going to a hospital for treatment. is this supposed to convince us how tough he is, or how stupid?
other reviewers have already pointed out that his passengers did not survive, so i need to touch on this point. the one passenger that was not trapped in the plane had plenty of supplies to make shelter with, to make fire with, and enough food to have survived on, yet he died due to exposure to the elements.
there are many things in this book that simply do not make sense, and the author makes no attempt to explain any of it.
is the book at least exciting to read? from a fictional standpoint, maybe. but if you have ever read real survival stories, or if you have some common sense, the complete lack of believability will keep you from enjoying this.
Amazing!!!.......2006-05-22
The fact that Peter Deleo survived the 1994 small plane crash in the Sierra Nevadas is incredible enough, but to struggle day by day, walking toward what you hope is civilization despite painful injuries is mind boggling! Through a series of intelligent decisions, determination and perhaps a bit of luck, one man's journey through a wilderness in winter in an attempt to bring back help to his two seriously injured companions is an amazing story from start to finish. Told in heart-wrenching detail, this survival story isn't one that just 'limps along'.
Chrissy K. McVay
author of 'Souls of the North Wind'
Keith's review.......2006-05-02
I enjoyed this book a lot! I probably would not have read this book if I not know the author, Peter Deleo, who is also the survivor. But I'm glad I took his advice and at least read the first ten pages. Because after that I could not put the book down. This story is a true story. It is a book that my that my father's and uncle's friend wrote. It is a story about when Peter crashed a single engine plane in the Sierra Nevadas. He hiked many snow covered mountains for thirteen days with sixteen broken bones to save his life and the the lives of his two fellow passengers, Lloyd and Wave. I don't really want to give away too much information, but I will tell you that Peter never gave up. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes adventure and excitement. But I feel that anyone can read this book and enjoy it. I also think that any person can read this book and be deeply moved by Peter's incredible journey through the Sierra Nevadas.
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..........2007-02-24
This is a beautifully written narrative of life in the woods and hills. Brimming with imagery and poetry it documents the loves, lives, and religion of individuals on the Warrior..
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A great introduction to the plant world........2001-05-01
It is best to read this book in a quiet setting, preferably outside on a warm day surrounded by trees and plants. I say this because you will want to experience and refer to what the author is trying to convey; the wonder of the trees and plants that surround us. You will gain a great understanding of how these wonderful plants survive, grow and their purpose in the cycle of life. This would be a great read for High School and college level botany courses.
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This book gives students the tools to find out firsthand what kind of weather we might experience in an imaginery world. Twenty experiments explore the factors that determine weather-sun, earth, atmosphere, and geophysical features-and challenge the student to find out what might happen if these factors were variable, creating "science fiction weather." Students then actually create their own "impossible" weather models. Each experiment follows scientific procedure, providing a model for science fair experiments, and is followed by suggestion for further experimentation. Through these projects, students learn not only science but also geography and math.
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Under this world's green arches (Fiddlehead poetry books)
Mary Willis
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This digital document is an article from Nutraceuticals World, published by Thomson Gale on May 1, 2006. The length of the article is 3071 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: The green foods evolution: with all of the health benefits surrounding green foods you would think this category is as popular as vitamin C, but it has a long way to go before it reaches mainstream status.(Market overview)
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Looking for a travel guide that goes where other guides fear to tread? One that rides roughshod over ad-copy puffery to smartly deliver the real scoop on a destination's sites and attractions? One that dares to be honest, hip, and fun? Look no more. Frommer's Irreverent Travel Guides are wickedly irreverent, unabashedly honest, and downright hilarious, and provide an insider's perspective on which attractions are overrated tourist traps and which are the secret gems that locals love. You'll get the lowdown on restaurants, lodging, and shopping, and even find out what the locals think of you. "Like being taken around by a savvy local," said the New York Times. "Hipper and savvier than other guides," concurred Diversion magazine. Never shy about confronting the issues, the Irreverents are guides to real travel in the real world.
Irreverence is Las Vegas's stock and trade. Still, you won't find a more hilariously entertaining and irreverent look at this over-the-top city than that the one in Frommer's Irreverent Guide to Las Vegas. Discover statuary that doubles as slot machines, have a slice at Wayne Newton's favorite pizza joint, and find out which hotel offers 24-hour emergency care. You'll get the lowdown on corn-free entertainment, the most lavish casino buffets, and worthwhile sites and attractions that have absolutely nothing to do with gambling. Frommer's Irreverent Guide to Las Vegas is a no-smoke-and-mirrors destination guide where you'll discover the genuine Vegas beneath all that neon.
Customer Reviews:
Not the Info We Were Looking For.......2007-07-17
Overly opinionated writing with too much sarcasm. Where's the info? It's hidden in the author's own agenda. The who's who don't need this guide. They know where to be and it's not sitting among the tourists of Vegas. We did not see all the "pretty" people he was boasting about. Overrated info. We saw more frumpy people in Vegas staring blankly at their slot machines. There are better books out there.
Good info - needs more pictures :).......2006-08-18
I am very excited about my first trip to Vegas. This book has totally prepared me for the best and worst of Vegas. The comments are honest and irreverent - just as the title implies. If you want to really know the low down - and avoid the cheesey aspects of Vegas - this book is perfect. Prices for hotels, restaurants, and events are all broken down into easy lists. The maps of the strip and downtown Vegas are awesome - I feel like I know the town already and I haven't left home yet. My only complaint is that I wish there were a few more pictures in the guide - real pics of the strip, things not to miss while in Vegas, or a large fold out map.
I definitely plan on purchasing more "Irreverent" guides in the future. I really enjoy the reviews and the size.
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- Very useful as a supplement to standard guides
- Superficial guide to las vegas
- somewhat helpful
- More Clever than the Usual Fluff...
- No-holds-barred guide to Las Vegas
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Frommer's Irreverent Guide to Las Vegas
Jordan Simon
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Frommer's Irreverent Guide to Las Vegas does not bring you brochure-speak. We tell it like it is for the savvy, hip travelers looking for something a little different.
Frommer's Irreverent Guide to Las Vegas brings you beyond the regular Strip guides and brings you the lowdown on accommodations, dining, diversions, casinos, shopping, nightlife, and entertainment.
Just a quick look at our table of contents proves we're a little different. With headings such as:
Frozen in the 50s
Neon dreams
Kitsch collections
Show me the cheese
Over the top, even by Vegas standards
Tackiest tchotchkes
Best people-watching
Love shacks
For slackers, Goths, and nihilists
The bare necessities
Customer Reviews:
Very useful as a supplement to standard guides.......2003-06-25
Before heading out to Vegas, I read every Vegas guidebook on the local bookshelf. This one was different and useful. It named a number of off-beat and off-Strip locales overlooked by many of the other guides, places I might have missed. The author was more candid and opinionated than most, making the book useful and entertaining. You should purchase this book even if you find you do also have to purchase one of the larger, more mainstream guides for completeness.
Superficial guide to las vegas.......2003-01-01
I found this book pretty annoying. On the one hand, it gives a good overview of vegas and some interesting facts. But trying to use it while we were there, we found it almost never gave enough information to be useful. In particular, we tried to use the guide to find restaurants, and found the one-sentence-long reviews of restaurants severely lacking. If anything they sound like advertisements. Here's a random example: "At Samba Brazilian Steakhouse, skewered rotisserie meats are roasted over coals at the open kitchen, then carved table side with machete-like knives." That's the complete treatment of that restuarant! OK, so at a steak house they roast meats -- duh! Are they any good? Should I go there? Is it better than anywhere else? Is it expensive? This information is very typical of the level of detail in the book.
somewhat helpful.......2001-08-01
this book was helpful only because it was the most recent book printed i could locate(and still not new enough). It is no better than any other book on las vegas i have read (which is about 4). i do like the size and shape however and the print is easy to look at. much of the information is repeated throughout the book 2 or 3 times as it is nicely cross-referenced.
More Clever than the Usual Fluff..........2001-07-11
The book is more clever and more hip than the typical travel guides. My only complaint is than there are parts that get redundant when the same place has been reviewed by three critics that give the same information again and again only with a slightly different spin. Better editing could have resolved that problem.
This book is the only book I've seen on Vegas that intelligently asserts that the reader knows that there's kitsch is in Vegas as well as the writers. There is a down-to-earth style about this book which was refreshing after reading other travel books about Vegas that feel like they were written by shills for the casinos.
Las Vegas has never been a place that should be taken seriously in the least!
I liked this book considerably more than the usual tourist guide.
No-holds-barred guide to Las Vegas.......2001-06-01
A wealth of info presented from a fresh and cheeky point of view. Jordan Simon clues you in to what Vegas' many promoters don't want you to know, but don't get the idea that this "Irreverent Guide" exists solely to take potshots at the excess that is the essence of Vegas' singular charm; the writer duly awards praise where he thinks praise is warranted. As it happens, I personally have not been to Vegas in about 30 years, but Simon's style pulled me in immediately and I have no doubt his offbeat guide will prove very useful when I do visit.
I have a couple of small quibbles - the info could be presented in more of an outline, organized form, but that's really a minor complaint, as the hip narrative style is very entertaining; and I'd love some photos, but one can get all the Las Vegas one could ever want various places online. If your preferences tend towards the unconventional, this is the Las Vegas guide to get.
Book Description
Looking for a travel guide that goes where other guides fear to tread? One that rides roughshod over ad-copy puffery to smartly deliver the real scoop on a destination's sites and attractions? One that dares to be honest, hip, and fun? Look no more. Frommer's Irreverent Travel Guides are wickedly irreverent, unabashedly honest, and downright hilarious, and provide an insider's perspective on which attractions are overrated tourist traps and which are the secret gems that locals love. You'll get the lowdown on restaurants, lodging, and shopping, and even find out what the locals think of you. "Like being taken around by a savvy local," said the New York Times. "Hipper and savvier than other guides," concurred Diversion magazine. Never shy about confronting the issues, the Irreverents are guides to real travel in the real world.
Irreverence is Las Vegas's stock and trade. Still, you won't find a more hilariously entertaining and irreverent look at this over-the-top city than that the one in Frommer's Irreverent Guide to Las Vegas. Discover statuary that doubles as slot machines, have a slice at Wayne Newton's favorite pizza joint, and find out which hotel offers 24-hour emergency care. You'll get the lowdown on corn-free entertainment, the most lavish casino buffets, and honest-to-god worthwhile sites and attractions that have absolutely nothing to do with gambling. Frommer's Irreverent Guide to Las Vegas is no-smoke-and-mirrors destination guide where you'll discover the genuine Vegas beneath all that neon.
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Looking for a travel guide that goes where other guides fear to tread? One that rides roughshod over ad-copy puffery to smartly deliver the real scoop on a destination's sites and attractions? One that dares to be honest, hip, and fun? Look no more. Frommer's Irreverent Travel Guides are wickedly irreverent, unabashedly honest, and downright hilarious, and provide an insider's perspective on which attractions are overrated tourist traps and which are the secret gems that locals love. You'll get the lowdown on restaurants, lodging, and shopping, and even find out what the locals think of you. "Like being taken around by a savvy local," said the New York Times. "Hipper and savvier than other guides," concurred Diversion magazine. Never shy about confronting the issues, the Irreverents are guides to real travel in the real world.
Irreverence is Las Vegas's stock and trade. Still, you won't find a more hilariously entertaining and irreverent look at this over-the-top city than that the one in Frommer's Irreverent Guide to Las Vegas. Discover statuary that doubles as slot machines, have a slice at Wayne Newton's favorite pizza joint, and find out which hotel offers 24-hour emergency care. You'll get the lowdown on corn-free entertainment, the most lavish casino buffets, and honest-to-god worthwhile sites and attractions that have absolutely nothing to do with gambling. Frommer's Irreverent Guide to Las Vegas is no-smoke-and-mirrors destination guide where you'll discover the genuine Vegas beneath all that neon.
Customer Reviews:
Irreverent or irrelevant?.......2005-02-17
This book is awful.
I bought it with the hopes that it would give me more of an insider's guide to Las Vegas.
It Didn't.
It had things arranged in an good manner but contradicted itself by including things in their `Overrated' section after they had raved about them.
Also (and this is unforgivable), their map was both outdated and wrong. The copyright was 2004, but the map was circa 2001. Things in Las Vegas change quickly, but the map was wrong way before they published the book. Even worse, some of the casinos were in the wrong place. That didn't change over the past few years. Avoid this book.
If you're looking for a hip guide, this ain't it.......2005-02-15
We picked this book up out in Vegas, when we left (a better) guide book at home mistakenly. We were looking for things to do off the beaten path, or just off of the strip. Nearly every one of the descriptions for 'should-do' things according to these authors were wrong in my opinion. Also, it was difficult to follow because they list multiple locations/attraction in standard paragraph form and all of the addresses at the end of each chapter. Too much flippin' around and jumping around whenever we wanted to just find out directions. You may think that Vegas never closes, but restaurants do and the hours of operation would have been helpful.
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