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Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies and Why

Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies and Why

by Laurence Gonzales (Author)

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    Paperback 2005

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Synopsis

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.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 320
 Edition: Reprint
 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co.
Published: 11 Feb 2005
ISBN 10: 0393326152
ISBN 13: 9780393326154

Media Reviews
A fascinating look into why we are who we are. -- Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature and Enough
Deep Survival is by far the best book on the many insights into epic survival stories I have ever read. -- Daryl Miller, Chief of Mountaineering, Denali National Park & Preserve
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. -- Charles Perrow, author of Normal Accidents
Great 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. -- Robert Sapolsky, author of Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers
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. -- Peter Stark, author of Last Breath: The Limits of Adventure
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. -- Jacki Golike, Executive Director, National Association for Search and Rescue
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. -- Joseph LeDoux, author of The Emotional Brain and Synaptic Self
Author Bio
Laurence Gonzales is the author of Surviving Survival, Flight 232 and the bestseller Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why. He has won two National Magazine Awards and is a scholar at the Sante Fe Institute. He divides his time between Evanston, Illinois, and Santa Fe, New Mexico.