Adventuring on Cayman Brac [Paperback]

Skip Harper (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 2002

A guidebook to great adventures on Cayman Brac--a small Carribean gem. Information on diving, swimming, sunbathing, rock climbing, hiking, caving, running, fishing, relaxing as well as a historical overview, and a list of accomodatioins, facilities and restaurants. Everything thing you need to know for the vacation of your lifetime.

Product Details

• Paperback: 190 pages
• Publisher: Heel & Toe Pub (November 2002)
• ISBN-10: 0964064529
• ISBN-13: 978-0964064522
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,101,048 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

By 1971, Skip (aka Jon W. Harper) had several advanced degrees including a Ph.D. in Neurophysiology and Biophysics and joined the Department of Psychiatry and Neurology at Tulane Medical School. Somewhat later, he also started up several successful businesses. He left brain research and corporate offices behind in the late 80's and took climbing and diving lessons. Since then, he's been exploring the limits of these pursuits and others. While already published in many scientific journals, writing about these new adventures proved a challenging departure in style and form from previous work. His efforts have been featured in Climbing Magazine, Rock and Ice Magazine, National Geographic Explorer and other publications. He has written several guide books including "Adventuring on Cayman Brac; a guide to great adventures on this small Caribbean gem". He continues writing and photographic projects while searching provocative corners of the planet for new and novel experiences. He maintains two websites that chronicle some of these excursions at www.skipharper.com and www.vedauwoo.org.

Customer Reviews

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Has anyone seen my socks?, May 7, 2003

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H. Huntzinger "-hh" (Denville, NJ USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Adventuring on Cayman Brac (Paperback)

When it comes to the Brac, I've been going there for well over a decade, and I picked up this book mostly just to have a complete set of references.

And when it comes to guidebooks, I'm usually pretty hard to be impressed. But Skip's comprehensiveness and thoroughness across the full gambit completely knocked my socks off.

The book is a quality piece all the way around: good photo's, excellent maps, and great references: I recognized citations from limited print Cayman Trust publications, including the "Storm of '32" and "Duppies Is"

I'm not a climber, but I am aware that the Brac became a climber's destination in the '90s, although the info had been pretty hard to find...until now. Skip's well organized compilation looks to me to be "The Bible" for Brac-bound climbers.

I am a diver, and his moored sites are covered well enough. The only significant suggestion I can make is that it would have been wonderful if Skip could have gotten permission to reprint the UW topology illustrations originally published in Shlomo Cohen's "Cayman Diver's Guide" (ISBN 965-362-0053), which was last printed in 1990, and not particularly easy to find.

When it comes to shore diving, most diving guidebooks pretty much claim that there is none on the Brac. This is where Skip's book is a goldmine: my shore diving list just flat out doubled, and it looks like I only know of one spot that Skip didn't already have.

Skip also has an excellent reference section, and does a great job in the photo's throughout the book in putting names to local faces.

Overall, this is a great guidebook, a virtual "must" for any Brac traveller who's really interested in the island and who is going to spend time there. It knocked my socks off, but for trips to the Brac, that's a good thing, because its where we get barefoot for a week at a time :-)

-hh

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Superior book, April 22, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Adventuring on Cayman Brac (Paperback)

I live on the Brac and use this book as a reference. It's a great book. Thank you!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Locals can learn from this book, October 24, 2003

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"reggiem1ck" (homestead, fl United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Adventuring on Cayman Brac (Paperback)

I have been going to Cayman Brac for over 30 years and found information in this book that was new to me and my family.
We have a home on the island and now have placed 2 of these books in our home for guest who visit our home on the island.
Several people have told us this book was the perfect guide to all of The Brac. This is a must have for the true adventurer.