A Must Have to understand survival psychology

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	• Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why Laurence Gonzales W. W. Norton & Company, 2004 - 318 pages average customer review:based on 149 reviews view larger image
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Deep Survival: Who Live, Who Dies, and Why

This will always be one of the most memorable books I have ever read. While it is skillfully and artfully composed the observation of detail is unsurpassed in it's acuity.

Are you experienced or just very lucky?

This should be mandatory reading for anyone doing moderate risk activities, let alone thru-hikers, backpackers, mountain climbers, etc. It certainly made me rethink the things I do when backpacking. It makes fascinating reading, but to summarize what I got out of it: Be sure that what you are thinking of as many years of experience, is not really many years of being very lucky.

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a great conversational book

This is one of the books that I have recently read that I find myself mentioning often to friends in conversation. There are many survival stories included that are riviting and will stay with you long enough that you may find yourself talking about it quite a while after reading the book.

The beginning chapters are a bit long on behavioral psychology and neurology and may not be interesting to some people but I felt it did add to an understanding of what followed next with the individual survival accounts. If you stay with it, the stories of survival and the rational the author gives to the survivors (or victims) strategy is exceptionally interesting throughout the major part of the book. Why did two young fit hikers disappear and were never found again after taking a well traveled trail in Hawaii? How did someone survive a fall with a broken leg into a 100 foot deep crevass in the highest mountains of remote Peru and was somehow able to summon the strength and ability to crawl out of a seemingly impossible situation and be rescued? Why did snowmobilers on their way to find help for their friends that were overtaken by an avalance risk their own lives on a joyride over a similar snowbank that caught their friends?

The author brings you into the mind and thoughts of the people caught up in these situations and gives good explanations to what seems to be puzzeling and irrational behavior. He also summarizes a list of attitudes and behaviors that may be helpfull to anyone in a daunting situation.

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Cop an Attitude

Learn why some people survive, while others faced with the same situation perish. It's all about the attitude, and this book will teach you how to survive life.

A Must Have to understand survival psychology

I was fascinated by this book. I learned that frequently what separates those who live through tragic accidents and those who parish have different mental states and attitudes.

Find out why an experienced firefighter was lost for days in the rugged Colorado mountains, or how a 17 year old girl was the sole survivor in a plane crash in the Amazon jungle...

The author quoted a Navy SEAL saying that "It's usually the Rambo Types who fail first"

This book will tell you why. I liked it so much I loaned my copy to a fire fighter friend and bought another copy for my cousin.

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