The author actually managed to make this dull. He would have been better off just giving and example or two of each type of death instead of a paragraph or two on each one. I thought the chapter on drowning would never end. OK already, I know that it's dangerous to be on a big lake in a small boat in a storm. The writing wasn't terrible when he stuck to history, but at the beginning and ending of each chapter, he tried to philosophize, and that's where he really went off the rails. He also tried to justify his book as important history and a needed warning for future park visitors, but obviously it was intended to be dramatic. It wasn't.