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Deep survival : [who lives, who dies, and why : true stories of miraculous endurance and sudden death]
Format:
Audio disc
Title:
Deep survival : [who lives, who dies, and why : true stories of miraculous endurance and sudden death]
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ISBN:
9780786163977
9780786168965
Edition:
Unabridged.
Publication Information:
Ashland, Or. : Blackstone Audiobooks, ℗2006.
Physical Description:
8 audio discs (10 1/2 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
General Note:
Subtitle from container.
Compact discs.
Duration: 10:30:00.
Contents:
Look out, here comes Ray Charles -- Memories of the future -- Map of the world -- Gorilla in our midst -- Anatomy of an act of God -- Sand pile effect -- Rules of life -- Thank God for surfboards -- Bending the map -- Right stuff -- "We're all gonna fuckin' die!" -- View of heaven -- Sacred chamber -- Certain nobility -- Day of the fall.
Summary:
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, 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 analysis of case studies, the author describes the essence of a survivor and offers steps for staying out of trouble. In the end, he finds, it is what's in your heart, not what's in your pack, that separates the living from the dead.
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