Third Man Factor - Surviving the Impossible

Informationen zum Autor John Geiger Klappentext 'Exciting, edge-of-your-seat tales. It's like revisiting the greatest hits of exploration and dare-devilry, but from a new angle.' Evening Standard The Third Man Factor tells the revealing story behind an extraordinary idea: that people at the very edge of death, often adventurers or explorers, experience a benevolent presence beside them that encourages them to make one final effort to survive. If only a handful of people had ever experienced the Third Man, it might be dismissed as an unusual delusion, but over the years the experience has occurred again and again: to mountaineers, divers, polar explorers, prisoners of war, solo sailors, aviators, astronauts and 9/11 survivors. All have escaped traumatic events only to tell strikingly similar stories of having experienced the close presence of a helper or guardian. In The Third Man Factor John Geiger combines history, scientific analysis and great adventure stories to explain this secret to survival, the Third Man who - in the words of legendary Italian climber Reinhold Messner - 'leads you out of the impossible'. 'Engrossing and formidable' Los Angeles Times Incredible true stories of a life-saving presence experienced in extreme adventuring situations - backed up by weighty research Zusammenfassung Incredible true stories of a life-saving presence experienced in extreme adventuring situations - backed up by weighty research

Product details

• Authors: John Geiger, Geiger John
• Assisted by: Vincent Lam (Foreword), Lam Vincent (Foreword)
• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 06.05.2010
• EAN: 9781847674203
• ISBN: 978-1-84767-420-3
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Miscellaneous; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Survival, Mind, Body, Spirit, True stories of heroism, endurance and survival