The Third Man Factor: Surviving the Impossible - Softcover

Geiger, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1847674208 ISBN 13: 9781847674203

Verlag: Canongate Books, 2010

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Incredible true stories of a life-saving presence experienced in extreme adventuring situations - backed up by weighty research

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John Grigsby Geiger was born in Ithaca, New York, and graduated in history from the University of Alberta. The author of five non-fiction books, including the international bestseller Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition, his work has been translated into ten languages. He also authored, with Dr Peter Suedfeld, the scholarly study 'The Sensed Presence as a Coping Resource in Extreme Environments'. He is editorial board editor at the Globe and Mail, and a senior fellow at Massey College, University of Toronto. He is a governor of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society and chair of the Society's Expeditions Committee, a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and of the Explorer's Club, and a Member of the Advisory Board of Wings Worldquest. He received the Queen's Golden Jubilee Medal.

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'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

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Canongate Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1847674208
• ISBN 13: 9781847674203
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 304
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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