Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why
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- ISBN13: 9780393326154
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“Unique among survival books…stunning…enchanting. Deep Survival makes compelling, and chilling, reading.”—Penelope Purdy, Denver Post
After her plane crashes, a seventeen-year-ancient girl spends eleven days walking through the Peruvian jungle. Against all odds, with no food, shelter, or equipment, she gets out. A better-equipped group of adult survivors of the same crash sits down and dies. What makes the difference?
Examining such tales of miraculous endurance and tragic death—how people get into distress and how they get out again (or not)—Deep Survival takes us from the tops of snowy mountains and the depths of oceans to the workings of the brain that control our behavior. Through close analysis of case studies, Laurence Gonzales describes the “stages of survival” and reveals the essence of a survivor—truths that apply not only to extant in the wild but also to extant life-threatening illness, relationships, the death of a loved one, running a business during uncertain times, even war.
Fascinating for any reader, and absolutely essential for anyone who takes a hike in the woods, this book will change the way we know ourselves and the fantastic outdoors.
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I have been active in the outdoors for some 35 years, from climbing and whitewater kayaking to backcountry skiing and sailing. Overall, this book is valuable in that it caused me to stop, reflect and take stock. At the same time, Deep Survival places structure on avoiding accidents and extant in the wilderness. In addition, the leader is onto a fantastic thought, where he takes hard science, all-purpose and neuropsychology as well as spirituality and merges these into excellent hair-raising survival tales. This is a perfect “guy book.” Moreover, his descriptions and tale telling are plain and brilliant. But, getting the right blend with these fundamentals is tough. The book follows a deep mechanistic stance where a human being is a walking slave to “emotional bookmarks,” embedded “survival of the species” impulses and the vicissitudes of our complex but, at times, fallible neurology. Here too is deep determinism. Then, suddenly, we have a “heart” (and presumably a will). We are a “person.” We have emotions and perception (We generate meaning.), and there is even a Hawaiian god, whom we can appease and who will give us soothing “energies” and bless us with excellent surfing sessions. Then again, we live in a random world, which accidentally came into being (and evolved), yet where even the most seemingly chaotic phenomena is ordered and predictable (Accidents are not accidents. They are rarely occuring but none-the-less ordered phenomena). (So the phenomenal world and human beings are both accidental and ordered?) Shifting once more, a devious animism is discerned where scenery is a god. In wilderness travel one enters into the god. By doing so you must pay homage (in essence, worship) by showing respect, i.e. being “cool” or you will be inexplicably crushed. Needless-to-say, Gonzales presents a befuddled (post-modern) world. I suggest that he continue his format and thesis … and dig up some more excellent tales. Yet, next time seek God, God the Creator and incarnate Son. Here the leader could place survival in the realm of a made world, but a fallen world, a world full of meaning, yet sinful; and a world where human beings are a unique soul in body, mind, person and spirit; and where we are reliable for our choices made in free-will. He could go still further and learn about the influence of the demonic. Importantly, by Grace the leader can open to a loving God who has a plot for each detail of His creation, especially for his sons and daughters, who are sinful, weak and idolatrous. (Many of the accidents Gonzales reports occupy the sin of pride and self-idolatry and could have been avoided with a small common sense and humility.) Again, overall, I recommend this book. I judge that the leader has hit upon a fantastic thought. My suggestion is that he dig deeper and clarify his thought. This quote from Oswald Chamber’s commentary on Job (of the Bible) will inspire: ‘When Jesus Christ (God) came (to planet), he was easily Master of the life in the air and planet and sky, and in Him we see the order God originally proposed for man. If you want to know what the human race is to be like on the basis of Redemption, you will find it mirrored in Jesus Christ: a perfect oneness between God and man, no gap; in the meantime there is a gap, and the universe is wild, not tame.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
Many books are written about appealing subjects. But if the writer cannot convey their message in a readable manner, all is lost. Such is Deep Survival. Also, I didn’t appreciate many 4-letter words. I wish Amazon would have a guide alerting buyers about offensiveness in books.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
I recommend against this book. It is extremely slow. If I need to fall asleep, I start reading this book again. The book has potential, but never lives up to it. I feel like writing about how the leader could’ve or should’ve, but why waste my time and yours. Oh, and how ancient is this guy to keep writing about how fantastic his daddy is. . . .
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
After reading the reviews on the book’s back take in, I thought I was in for a real treat. Turned out to be a huge disappointment. I wish I could return it really.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
Entertaining, but disappointing book. Survival based more on pure luck than “know how”.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5