Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why PDF
Preview Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why
aE Who Lives, Who Dies. Praise for Deep Sunvival “Riveting accounts of avalanches, mountein accidents, serlonslosl sl sev, and the nan made hell of 9/11." phon Balio, Sports Mustrated “A feast of excitement and wonder. Makes complexity and chaos come alive, gizdled by neuzclogical processes, drenched with fantastic accounts of danger and decth. You wil Ny." res Perraw, The world dif ch professor of sociology emeritus, Yale University thor of Normal Accidents an *Gonzeles has masterfully woven together personel survival stories with the study of human perception wo reach rac bollorn Iraths: shou! bow lo Tive will risk.” Pole Fk, author of Last Breadth: The bdnails of Adventure “This book will help you should you ever find yourself pinned under ¢ rock in ¢ roering white weter river. But it wwillhelp you even more if you ever find yourself wondering why your brain works the way it does under the stress of erydicy life. A fascnieting lock inlo why we are who we —Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature and Enough “Great stories of disaster and survival where one irresistibly wonders, ‘How would I do in this cireumstance?” combined ell: revesting seience aboul {he physiclogy and psychology of how we deal with crisis. [Gonzales’s] science is accurate, accessible, up-to-date and insightful. An extremely good book.” —Rodert Sapolsky, author of Why Zebras Don't Get Lileers id primlolagisl, Shinford Universily and neurabiolagish “Deep Survival provides a new lens for looking at survival, tisk taking, and life itseli. Gonzales takes the reader on roller-coaster ride that ends wita rules of survival we can all nd Lolearn. Equally impar is the value of taking risks —Jed Williamson, editor of Accidents in North American Mountaineering wh “A. superb, enterteining addition to a nature buffs Ebrary—or for anyone not sucked safely away in a bunke:.” ‘kus Reviews “Gonzeles's vivie descriptions of life in the belance will stay Publishers Weekly “Professional rescuers will love Deep Survival. heart of che instincts tha: drive us to risk our own lives to save others.” —Jacki Golike, executive director, Nationel Association for *Gonzeles takes us on a fascinating, fast paced, and exciting adventure into survival, (including an excellent surv ‘the brain besis of fear). His captivating stories, many from. pers you turning The py stopping only to imagine how you, and your brain, would react when faced with a survival experience.” —Joseph LeDoux, professor of neural science at New York University and author of The Emotional! Brain ang Syrnpliv Self DEEP SURVIVAL Also by Laurence Gonzales One Zero Chin The Sul Point The He Aporentice Jambeaux DEEP SURVIVAL Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why TRUE STORIFS OF MIRACULOUS ENDURANCE, AND SUDDEN DEATH Laurence Gonzales ip=af W. W. NORTON & COMPANY NEWYORK LONDON For my father An you, my father, theze on the sad height, Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, 1px —Dylan Thomas Copyright @) 2003 by Laurence Gonzales Allrights reserved Parks of his boas m4 form. areviously pu ished, in different in Harper's, Men’s Journal, Penthouse, Notre Dame Magazine, and National Geographic Adventure, Some were subsequently collected, in cifterent form, in The Still Point semd The Hero: Apprentice. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque. “Im Westen Nichts Neues," copyright € 1928 by Ullstein A.G.: Copyright renewed © 1y56 by Erich Maria Remarque. AM Quied on: fie Wesieirn Kron! capyright 1929 by Lil's, Brown and Company; Copyright renewed © 1957, 2938, by rich Maria Remarque. All Rights Reserved. Used by permission. Vouching the Void’ Joc Simpson. Capyrighl @ 1989 by ‘Joe Simpson, reprinted by permiesion of HarperCollins Publishers Inc, From Untamed Seas: One Woman's True Stary of Shipureck und Survie! by Deborah $ rig Kéley eri Me ‘Noonan. Copyright © 2994 by Deborah Scaling Kiley. Reprinted by permission of Iloughton Miffiin Company. ADL rights reserved Forinformabon about permission lo repraduce sel
The list of books you might like
