McKeown certainly has a flair for the dramatic. A pity that when he applies this flair to an 'analysis' of the SL-1 accident he comes across as someone bucking for a movie deal. He plays up every possible innuendo and rumor about the servicemembers who died in the reactor explosion, along with all the gory details he could muster from the reams of technical information available about the incident.

If the story is unknown to most people, it is because most of them have never heard of Idaho, to say nothing of the National Reactor Testing Station (now the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory).

The story of SL-1 can hardly be described as as unknown to anyone in the nuclear industry. A pity he didn't pay a bit more attention to technical accuracy in his descriptions than to the dozens of pet theories about the state of mind of the operators on duty in the control room. SL-1 was an experimental reactor built in the late fifties at Idaho's National Reactor Testing Station. It was a prototype for small, portable reactors the Army hoped could power radar stations along the Distant Early Warning (DEW) radar line along the northern edge of the continent during the Cold War. It and dozens of other reactors were built on the Idaho desert in order to advance the science of reactor design, safety and engineering.

Dozens of technical factors contributed to the accident, but McKeown ignores everything that was learned from the accident, and admits we'll never know the 'real' cause of the incident, implying cover-up and conspiracy. I could swear I heard the 'X-Files' music playing as I finished the book.

If you're after a bit less dramatic version of the accident, try 'Proving the Principle' by Susan Stacy.

I read this book while visiting my son in Idaho Falls this summer. I found it quite interesting, so much so that I drove the fifty miles or so out of the city into the Lost River desert, and toured the facility where nuclear energy was first generated back in 1951.

This is a well-written book, and I thought the author did a fine job of presenting all sides of this little-known mystery.

This volume, suitable only for serious Gus Van Sant fans, contains the original script text for the disasterous movie of the fine Tom Robbins novel. The script adaptation drags and completly loses the counterculture spirit of the novel. Unless you are a film student, skip this and read the novel while listening to k.d. lang's excellent film score.

Pictures were very disappointing....text was far too brief and offered little or no fishing advice. Access information was almost non-existant. No index. I returned the book.

This out-of-print book is quite outdated itself. If you stick to the most popular trails and don't venture off of them, you'll be fine, otherwise, prepare for a little adventure yourself. Again, very outdated material.

This was probably an excellent book when it was first written. The information is getting to be a bit dated. At least half of the hikes we have tried have had some outdated information.

On one hike, the trail was nearly gone after what appeared to be years of no use. It would have been somewhat dangerous for us to continue the hike.

I will probably throw the book away and get a more up to date one.

I do not claim to have read this book in its entirety, but I have read far too much of it purely out of morbid fixation. This book is so terrible that you have to keep reading just to convince yourself that it is real. There are few truely good books on wine appreciation, however, this is the only one I know of that did not have a single thread of valuable information. I would recommend this book to any real wine expert for a good laugh. WARNING: Only attempt to do this if you have an excellent bottle of wine on hand. You will need it to stomach this!

This book covers only very well known locations and only of rocks and minerals suitable for lapidary. This book is a good 30 years out of date. In my own state, I have been to every location listed and 90% of them do not exist anymore or are no longer accessible. In addition, I know of several other areas that are well known but not listed. Don't waste your time with this book.

I decided to purchase this book to perhaps find a new trail or two. I have attempted to use the book to locate three "out of the way" trails that were new to me. Unfortunately, the book is hopeless. The maps are unclear and the descriptions are inaccurate (i.e., "go 200 yards from the pavement and turn left" when the reality is 70 yards or "go 0.3 miles and bear right" when the reality is 0.48 miles"). No, it's not me. I have had years of orienteering and navigation training, and I have a Master of Science in Engineering. In other words, I can read a map and accurately judge distances (I also have an odometer on my bike). I found the three trails, but having to deal with inaccurate information from a book whose "job" it is, is to be dead accurate is very annoying. The book was no more help to me than having a random mountain biker say "I think there is a trail over there" while jabbing his finger at a foothill. I am assuming that the author hasn't biked some of these trails since the first printing of the book in 1994 and things have changed over the last decade. I gave up and bought "Mountain Biking Boise" by Martin Potucek (I have not used it on trail yet, but the maps are clearer and the descriptions are better).

Title pretty well sums it up. Found little to justify the cost of the list of campgrounds

I bought this book sight unseen and I was bitterly disappointed. There is nothing in this book that you can't find out by reading the Idaho Fish and Game Upland Game pamphlet, except some listings of local resources such as sporting goods stores. It made me wonder if Retallic and Barker ever actually hunted birds in Idaho. The maps are especially disappointing, and they are typical of this entire series. They show absolutely no roads, rivers or streams by which you could pinpoint possible hunting locations. In this era of readily available digitized maps, these maps are inexcusable.

In short, any literate person could sit down with the Upland Game pamphlet and the yellow pages for Idaho and find all the information contained in this book. Don't waste your money.