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Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why | 
 enlarge | Author: Laurence Gonzales
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Category: Book
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Rating:  156 reviews
Sales Rank: 2940
Media: Paperback
Pages: 318
Number Of Items: 1
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Dimensions (in): 8 x 5.4 x 0.9
ISBN: 0393326152
Dewey Decimal Number: 613.69
EAN: 9780393326154
ASIN: 0393326152
Publication Date: October 30, 2004
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 Simply Fantastic January 10, 2009
R. Blake Hitchcock
This book has touched on so many aspects/dynamics of my life. It will do the same to yours. I recommend it to anyone, no matter your interests.
Deep Survival January 4, 2009
Monica E. Hackett (Wayne, PA)
I read this book (age 57) when my daughter(age 20) was training to climb Aconcagua and I was petrified. She is a good athlete but had never climbed mountains. A friend recommended it to me. As much as I love the rest of the book, what was most poignant to me was the part about how survivors have a plan and then are able to take in new data and adjust their plan. It brought me to a peace--she had been a soccer and LAX goalie for many years and she took in new data daily. She ended up not summitting but that was because she took in new data. She and her guide were being pelleted by ice and they had about 13 more hours to the summit. They turned back.
Rollercoaster Ride December 28, 2008
Michael Dereszynski
The author presents science and psychology of survival in a way that is way more than science or pysch. Every story of survival (and there are a ton of them) is inspirational and awe inspiring. I love how each story melts into the overall plot, to form a coherent story from the first page to the last.
a remarkable journey through survival December 26, 2008
R. Vincent (central california)
I've given copies of Deep Survival to five friends from very diverse backgrounds. Each one has thanked me. The book isn't a linear, Cartesian analysis about how a person enters a zone of great risk at point A and, after following a prescription of do's and don'ts, exits alive or dead at point Z. The author knows it isn't that simple. Each story becomes its own survival sermon, a grim eulogy for those who die and a paean to grace and luck for those who live. Each time I revisit Deep Survival, I find something valuable. I have added it to the very short list of books that I reread every three or four years.
 A Boys quest for Daddy's approval December 21, 2008
Mark Twain (florida)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I thought I was going to like this book. I didn't. I ended up annoyed that I wasted my time reading a self indulgent homage to the Authors Father with things like "The Rules of Life" (written by his 6 year old daughter) presented as things I should take seriously.
Before purchasing this book try to imagine how this passage is pertinent to the subject of survival:
... my father climbed out and said "you're a really good pilot" ... It was one of the most important moments in my life.
Worse, since Dad is a scientist, the Author takes nearly every survival situation presented and inserts scientific brain studies, chaos theory and many other complexities to them. In the end he ends up destroying good survival stories and I'm sure serious scientists would say he short changes the science too.
By the time he gets to the story of how he passed up a plane trip that ended up killing his co-workers (His survival intuition at work) I was rolling my eyes.
A main point is to "trust your gut". I am. This book is just a boy looking for Daddy's approval. That's what my gut tells me.
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