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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 613.69
EAN: 9780393052763
Edition: 1
ISBN: 0393052761
Label: W. W. Norton & Company
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 302
Publication Date: 2003-10
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Studio: W. W. Norton & Company

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The author delves into the science, psychology, and art of wilderness survival. His analysis is riveting, his conclusions startling.

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 essence of a survivor and offers twelve "Rules of Survival." In the end, he finds, it's what's in your heart, not what's in your pack, that separates the living from the dead. 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.



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Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Reads like a thriller...
Take a deep breath... say goodbye to family and friends for few hours or days... pick up the book... you won't stop reading if you're interested in outdoors. I started listening to the book on a Friday and couldn't stop until I finished it on the weekend. The book goes from one disaster to another...by the time you come to grips with one, another disaster is waiting. I agree with author's conclusion that knowing when you're pushing the envelope and when you're risking life is the difference. I ... Read More



Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Look beyond the cheesy title
Fabulous book about the philosophy of survivors and surviving.
Filled with incredible accounts of survival and non-survival, and comparisons between them. This is one of the best books of the year. Fantastic!



Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Reading Deep Survival
A park ranger, while leading me on a rescue mission for my friend, on a very dark night in the wilderness, recommended this book. So I went to Amazon.com and bought it. It has changed the way I think about a lot of things I do. It's not so much a book of survival techniques or stories of heroism as it is a book of how people who survive dangerous situations think. There are some concrete ideas about thinking and will that apply to everyone's life whether we expect to be in danger or not. Well ... Read More



Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Not just "survivor" stories--so much more!
Laurence Gonzales was impressed with the story of his father's survival during WWII, falling five miles out of the sky in an airplane and living to tell the tale. He was intrigued with the questions of not only how people survive in extreme circumstances, but also about how and why skilled people who should know better get into these situations. He explains quite a bit about how our brains and instincts work both for us and against us in these circumstances, and in so doing, produces a work that's ... Read More



Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - Top Gun meets Tao te Ching
I liked this book but it got on my nerves.

If you liked the movie Top Gun; if you think the guys with the need for speed are "elite" (a term the author uses throughought the book when referring to his heroes, and you get the sense he includes himself in that number); if you love the macho adrenaline junkie jargon (which the author sometimes doesn't even bother to translate for us ordinary folk), you may love this book.

On the other hand; if the guys in Top Gun sometimes grate ... Read More




 


 

 


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