True Stories of Rescue and Survival: Canada's Unknown Heroes - Softcover

Matthews, Carolyn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1550028510 ISBN 13: 9781550028515

Verlag: DUNDURN PR LTD, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

A crab boat off Newfoundland catches fire, and a rescue is undertaken by helicopter. A child goes missing in a New Brunswick forest, and a desperate hunt is mounted. A climber falls on a British Columbia mountain, and a helicopter rescue is attempted. A civilian chopper crashes in Nunavut, and a search-and-rescue team braves a savage snowstorm to find survivors.

True Stories of Rescue and Survival features the above true stories and many more from across the country, past and present. Its heroes are to be found in the RCMP, city police forces, the Canadian military, and among all the rescue workers and specialists of the Canadian Coast Guard. Volunteers, too, risk injury and even death to help others.

Sidebars spotlight the equipment search-and-rescue teams use, how search dogs are trained, how long-line rescues work, how navy divers are making a difference in the deserts of Afghanistan, and much more.

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Carolyn Matthews, a former registered counsellor and nurse, was born in New Zealand. She now writes full time and has published two books, including Heroic Rescues at Sea and To the Rescue! Her articles have appeared in the Globe and Mail and the National Post. She lives in Toronto.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: DUNDURN PR LTD
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1550028510
• ISBN 13: 9781550028515
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 171
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