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by: Laurence Gonzales

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Sales Rank: 1,053
Release Date: October, 2003
Media: Hardcover
Manufacturer: W.W. Norton & Company

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Average Rating: 4.86 out of 5 stars

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- Not your father's survival book
This is sort of "the long time listener, first time caller" of book reviews. I read these all the time, and have even been persuaded by a few, but have never taken the time to write a review before. But Deep Survival is one of the coolest books I have read in a long, long time. And it was so beyond what I was expecting that I had to write a review about it. I should mention that this book was a gift from my father, who's a big outdoorsman, survival-type guy. Dad's given me a lot of survival books. In fact, I have an entire shelf dedicated to survival books dad gave me - almost none of which I read much more than a few pages of. I had sat down to read the first ten pages of Deep Survival, as I've done with all the books dad gave me, so that when I set it on the shelf to collect dust, I could ... Read More

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- Deep Survival: consistent with experience
Having survived a pretty serious mountaineering accident myself a few years ago, I found the book absolutely fascinating and very consistent with my own experience both as a climber and member of a volunteer mountain rescue organization. I was familiar with many of the survival stories profiled in the book as an avid reader of mountaineering, exploration, and rescue literature. However, this book really helped answer a number of lingering questions I have had about survival, particularly those related to my own accident--about how/why I reacted the way I did and how it led to my own survival.

I think the book (particularly the last chapter) will be a very useful addition to the mountaineering and rescue training literature. I will certainly be using portions of this book in upcoming ... Read More

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- Compels and Empowers
Years ago I put myself in a situation and got cold, very cold. It would have been a pain-free relief to have simply given in. Shut-down mode. Enough of the pain. Enough of the struggle. It'll be alright. This is the journalistic beat of Laurence Gonzales. Why some people hear that voice and assuage themselves with the endorphins of impending morbidity. And why in the brains of others there is a dialogue which cues simultaneous and contradictory impulses. Life-saving impulses. I did not read Deep Survival so much as absorb it into the fabric of my being. You too may have occasion to explore your own self in deeply personal, provocative ways while reading this book. This goes way, way beyond "armchair exploration" and into a deeper examination of self. Many of the like-minded among us now have cause ... Read More

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