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The Greatest Search and Rescue Stories Ever Told

Paperback • 2019 • 1. edition

The Greatest Search and Rescue Stories Ever Told

By Tom McCarthy

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About the book

From the early years of Western Expansion to the present day, our history is marked by the heroic exploits of the rescuer and the rescued in some of the most daunting geographic, meteorological, and otherwise life-threatening challenges. "First responders" have variously been members of law enforcement to ordinary good samaritans who couldn't look the other way in the face of their brethren in peril. This book collects the most compelling search-and-rescue accounts of the last two hundred years,...Show more

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ISBN

9781493039654

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield

Published year

2019

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Edition

1

Original title

The Greatest Search and Rescue Stories Ever Told

Format

Paperback

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