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Good intentions dont always lead to success. Great Misadventures chronicles 100 failed adventures that ended in disasters because of human error. Entries are arranged chronologically within four subject volumes: Exploration and Adventure; Science and Technology; Miliary; and Society. Coverage extends from early civilization to the present, telling tales of exciting adventures gone wrong, such as Alexander the Greats trek across the Gedrosia Desert in 325 B.C. that cost the lives of hundreds of men, women and children; Umberto Nobiles 1928 effort to reach Antarctica in a dirigible which ended in disaster for the original party as well as their rescuers; the fatal attempts to climb Mount Everest in 1996 and 1997; and many more
Added value features include sidebars offering biographical sketches of important adventurers, a timeline and a cumulative index. Approximately 220 maps and illustrations line the text.
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Gr 6-9--This drably produced but topically arresting browsers' confection gathers together "100 stories of human error, greed, and poor judgment," from the obliteration of the Athenian fleet in 413 B.C.E. to the mid-1997 death of chemist Karen Wetterhahn as a result of mercury poisoning. Saari chronicles many higher-profile debacles as well: Waterloo, Three Mile Island, the Children's Crusade, the Black Sox scandal, and so on. Arranged in subject volumes (Exploration and Adventure, Military, etc.), each entry includes a summation, a general narrative, a boxed section providing biographical or other details, one or more pallid black-and-white photographs, and a brief list of sources for further study. Though accuracy is sometimes sacrificed to sensationalism, the real flaws here have more to do with design than content: each volume contains the same 73 pages of front and back matter and the pages have a utilitarian look that's hopelessly at odds with the subject matter. Still, for well-endowed collections, this edges past The Associated Press Library of Disasters (Grolier, 1997) both for its historical and its topical scope.
John Peters, New York Public Library
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"More than two hundred relevant and well-reproduced photographs, illustrations and maps help make the articles easier to read and assimilate. This attractively priced, thought-provoking set is recommended."
-- VOYA (June 1999)
-- VOYA (June 1999)
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- PublisherU-X-L
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0787627984
- ISBN 13 9780787627980
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages729
- EditorDes Chenes Betz
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1999. Four volume set. A good ex-library copy with usual library markings. Pages are clean and free of writing. Light cover wear. No dust jacket. Booksavers receives donated books and recycles them in a variety of ways. Proceeds benefit the work of Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) in the U.S. and around the world. Seller Inventory # mon0000136744
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