Product Description

In Deep Survival, Laurence Gonzales combines hard science and powerful storytelling to illuminate 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 your world.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #9621 in Books
• Published on: 2005-02-11
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 320 pages

Review
"After the Bible and the complete works of Shakespeare, Laurence Gonzales' latest book would be the wise choice for any desert-island castaway."Conde Nast Traveller "Buy it so you know what to do if you happen to fall off a mountain."Anthony Sattin, The Sunday Times

Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature and Enough
A fascinating look into why we are who we are.

Charles Perrow, author of Normal Accidents
A feast of excitement and wonder. Makes complexity and chaos come alive...fantastic accounts of danger and death.

Customer Reviews

Be cool.
I'm not an outdoor type. As an archetypical geek my worries are more about the server failing than a hungry grizzly bear wandering by (a HR type however ... ). I do recommend this book because it offers some cogent life lessons that have been hard learnt by people who earned their right to survive where others failed.

Be cool. This sums up the core message of the book. However this is not something that can be so easily summed up as a catch phrase, but as an attitude that needs be experienced and made be part of a person's core programming; in a religious spiritual terms to find of grace when disaster strikes, be it lost in the high mountains or facing a sudden process audit.

Not very well focused
I picked up this book hoping to read about a concise theory or view of survival. Instead I got a collection of various stories, often written as a novel and so wide in view (the story of Xerox, the story of a hike in Mexico, etc) that it was very hard to find a connection between them. Even though the first few chapters were good, I find myself thinking that the author mixed up survival, success, profit making, etc in an effort to state numerous different facts. I have read many other excellent books on the subject and I find this one a fairly poor choice.

AWESOME!
This book is an amazing compilation of survivor stories and lessons learned. I enjoyed this book immensely and found that the learnings presented within its pages have wide applications to many different scenarios in life, from forex trading to surviving life threatening illnesses.

Very well written, Gonzales writes in an engaging and lively style, delivering stunning heart stopping real life drama.

Get this book, you're gonna love it.