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DEEP SURVIVAL

Laurence Gonzales

Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why

"Unique among survival books... stunning... enthralling. Deep Survival makes compelling, and chilling, reading." - Penelope Purdy, Denver Post
In "Deep Survival", Laurence Gonzalez combines hard science and powerful storytelling to illustrate the mysteries of survival, whether in the wilderness or in meeting any of life's great challenges. This gripping narrative, the first book to describe the art and science of survival, will change the way you see the world. Everyone has a mountain to climb. Everyone has a wilderness inside. Laurence Gonzales is the author of Surviving Survival, Flight 232 and the bestseller Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why. He has won two National Magazine Awards and is a scholar at the Sante Fe Institute. He divides his time between Evanston, Illinois, and Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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Published 2023-10-03 by W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. - New York (USA)

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Professional rescuers will love this book. It goes to the heart of the instincts that drive us to risk our own lives to save others.

quote Jacki Golike, Executive Director, National Association for Search and Rescue

Laurence Gonzales has masterfully woven together personal survival stories with the study of human perception to reach rock-bottom truths about how to live with risk.

quote Peter Stark, author

Gonzalez takes us on a fascinating, fast-paced, and exciting adventure into survival. His captivating stories, many from personal experience, will keep you turning the pages, stopping only to imagine how you, and your brain, would react when faced with a survival experience.

quote Joseph LeDoux, author

A feast of excitement and wonder. Makes complexity and chaos come alive, girdled by neurological processes, drenched with fantastic accounts of danger and death. You will see the world differently.

quote Charles Perrow, author

Great stories of disaster and survival... combined with revealing science about the physiology and psychology of how we deal with crisis.... Accurate, accessible, up-to-date and insightful.

quote Robert Sapolsky, author

Far and away the best book on management, leadership and employment I have read this year. . . . Anyone who has ever tried to understand the mind of the entrepreneur should read this book.

quote Richard Donkin, Financial Times

Unique among survival books . . . stunning . . . enthralling. Deep Survival makes compelling, and chilling, reading.

review Denver Post