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Survive!: My Fight for Life in the High Sierras
Peter DeLeo Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0743270061 |
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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
Gratuitous and Self Serving.......2007-02-18
survival fairy tale.......2006-06-30
Amazing!!!.......2006-05-22
Keith's review.......2006-05-02
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Action Comics: In This Issue, Action Plus with Green Arrow: I've Finally Unmasked You for the Monster You Really Are! You Exposed My Secret, but Sacrificed Yours! Now the Whole World Knows Clark Kent Is Superman! (20N431J30410, Vol. 1, No. 431, January 1974)
Cary Bates , and Elliot Maggin Manufacturer: DC Comics ProductGroup: Book Binding: Comic ASIN: 0304104310 |
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A Kingdom Not of This World
Garrett Green Manufacturer: Stanford ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OV0QZE |
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This green thicket world,
Howell Vines Manufacturer: Little, Brown, and company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B000867HZW |
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This Green World
Rutherford, Illustrated by With Illustrati Platt Manufacturer: New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1947 ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000LV7K2E |
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this Green World
Rutherford Platt Manufacturer: Dodd, Mead & Co. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000NF8U18 |
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This Green World (Edwin Way Teale Library of Nature Classics (Cloth))
Rutherford Platt Manufacturer: Dodd Mead ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0396091881 |
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A great introduction to the plant world........2001-05-01
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This land is all horizons: Australian fears and visions (Boyer lectures)
Geoffrey Blainey Manufacturer: ABC Books for Australian Broadcasting Corporation ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: 0733310354 |
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Two Suns and a Green Sky: 22 Out-Of-This-World Weather Models and Experiments
Thomas Richard Baker Manufacturer: Mcgraw-Hill ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0070051437 |
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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 Manufacturer: Fiddlehead Poetry Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: 0920110401 |
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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 ... : An article from: Nutraceuticals World
Rebecca Wright Manufacturer: Thomson Gale ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B000GEISHC Release Date: 2006-06-19 |
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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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Frommer's Irreverent Guide to Las Vegas (Irreverent Guides)
Manufacturer: Frommers ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0471773344 |
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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.
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Not the Info We Were Looking For.......2007-07-17
Good info - needs more pictures :).......2006-08-18
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Frommer's Irreverent Guide to Las Vegas
Jordan Simon Manufacturer: Hungry Minds ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0028631536 |
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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
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Very useful as a supplement to standard guides.......2003-06-25
Superficial guide to las vegas.......2003-01-01
somewhat helpful.......2001-08-01
More Clever than the Usual Fluff..........2001-07-11
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
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.
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Frommer's Irreverent Guide to Las Vegas
Mary Herczog , and Jordan S. Simon Manufacturer: Frommers ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0764542974 |
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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.
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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.
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Irreverent or irrelevant?.......2005-02-17
If you're looking for a hip guide, this ain't it.......2005-02-15
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Frommer's Irreverent Guide to Las Vegas
Mary Herczog Manufacturer: FROMMERS (TWLD) ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000K7MGMI |
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Frommer's Irreverent Guide to Las Vegas
Jordan Simon Manufacturer: MacMillan Publishing Company. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000O8YP3Q |
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THE Eastern Hemisphere: America's Origins
Manufacturer: Ginn & Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0663439299 |
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The Eastern Hemisphere: America's origins (Ginn social studies)
Bonnie B Armbruster Manufacturer: Ginn ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: 0663420385 |
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THE Eastern Hemisphere: America's Origins
Manufacturer: Ginn And Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0663439337 |
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