Heroic Efforts
Subtitle: The Emotional Culture of Search and Rescue Volunteers
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: April 1, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 233
ISBN-13: 9780814751848
Subjects: Sociology, Social Studies; Volunteer workers in search an; Social Science; Mountaineering; Sports & Recreation; Volunteer Work; Sociology; United States; General; Human Services; Volunteer workers in search and rescue operations; Case studies; Psychology; Search and rescue operations
First sentence: On a dark November morning in 1999, I awoke to the squelching emergency tones emanating from the pager next to my bed.