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Product Identifiers

PublisherNorton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.

ISBN-100393326152

ISBN-139780393326154

eBay Product ID (ePID)30776433

Product Key Features

Book TitleDeep Survival : Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why

Number of Pages320 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2004

TopicSpecial Interest / Adventure, Outdoor Skills, Personality

GenreTravel, Sports & Recreation, Psychology

AuthorLaurence Gonzales

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight9.2 Oz

Item Length8.3 in

Item Width5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2003-010867

Dewey Edition23

ReviewsGreat stories of disaster and survival... combined with revealing science about the physiology and psychology of how we deal with crisis.... Accurate, accessible, up-to-date and insightful., A feast of excitement and wonder. Makes complexity and chaos come alive, girdled by neurological processes, drenched with fantastic accounts of danger and death. You will see the world differently., Deep Survival is by far the best book on the many insights into epic survival stories I have ever read., Professional rescuers will love this book. It goes to the heart of the instincts that drive us to risk our own lives to save others., Laurence Gonzales has masterfully woven together personal survival stories with the study of human perception to reach rock-bottom truths about how to live with risk., I tore through ?Deep Survival ?like I'd been waiting to read it my whole life. Gonzalez's writing is effortless and compelling, and his research is first-rate., Gonzalez takes us on a fascinating, fast-paced, and exciting adventure into survival. His captivating stories, many from personal experience, will keep you turning the pages, stopping only to imagine how you, and your brain, would react when faced with a survival experience.

Dewey Decimal613.69

Synopsis"Unique among survival books... stunning... enthralling. Deep Survival makes compelling, and chilling, reading."--Penelope Purdy, Denver Post, After her plane crashes, a seventeen-year-old girl spends eleven days walking through the Peruvian jungle. Against all odds, with no food, shelter, or equipment, she gets out. A better-equipped group of adult survivors of the same crash sits down and dies. What makes the difference? Examining such stories of miraculous endurance and tragic death?how people get into trouble and how they get out again (or not)?Deep Survival takes us from the tops of snowy mountains and the depths of oceans to the workings of the brain that control our behavior. Through close analysis of case studies, Laurence Gonzales describes the "stages of survival" and reveals the essence of a survivor?truths that apply not only to surviving in the wild but also to surviving life-threatening illness, relationships, the death of a loved one, running a business during uncertain times, even war. Fascinating for any reader, and absolutely essential for anyone who takes a hike in the woods, this book will change the way we understand ourselves and the great outdoors., In ?Deep Survival?, Laurence Gonzalez combines hard science and powerful storytelling to illustrate the mysteries of survival, whether in the wilderness or in meeting any of life's great challenges. This gripping narrative, the first book to describe the art and science of survival, will change the way you see the world. Everyone has a mountain to climb. Everyone has a wilderness inside.

LC Classification NumberGV200.5.G66 2003