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Release date NZ
August 31st, 2008
Author
Pages
128
Dimensions (mm)
150x226
Illustrations
illustrations, maps
Country of Publication
New Zealand
Imprint
David Bateman Ltd
ISBN-13
9781869537166
All-time sales rank
Top 5000
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Product ID
2615889
Description
Humans cannot survive more than three minutes without air; more than three hours exposed to extreme low-temperature; more than three days without water; more than three weeks without food. New Zealanders love exploring the outdoors, but when things go wrong, why do some people survive and some don't?
Using true tales of survival, including the sailors on the Rose Noelle, the soldiers who died on Ruapehu and the recent case of Rob Hewitt, Carl Walrond investigates what determines whether a person faced with a life or death situation will survive. In doing so, he finds that the mind and the tricks it plays can be just as challenging as the wilderness itself.
Author Biography
Carl Walrond is a Wellington-based research writer at Te Ara - the online encyclopaedia of New Zealand and a regular contributor to NZ Geographic and Bivouac magaine. A keen climber and tramper, he has first-hand experience of being lost in the NZ bush, in Lapland and in Invercargill!
Using true tales of survival, including the sailors on the Rose Noelle, the soldiers who died on Ruapehu and the recent case of Rob Hewitt, Carl Walrond investigates what determines whether a person faced with a life or death situation will survive. In doing so, he finds that the mind and the tricks it plays can be just as challenging as the wilderness itself.
Author Biography
Carl Walrond is a Wellington-based research writer at Te Ara - the online encyclopaedia of New Zealand and a regular contributor to NZ Geographic and Bivouac magaine. A keen climber and tramper, he has first-hand experience of being lost in the NZ bush, in Lapland and in Invercargill!
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"Could you survive?"
Found alot of the anecdotes & scenarios in this book really interesting however I feel it jumped around a lot from topic to topic and didn't seem to have much cohesiveness to the chapters. The author is very knowledgeable with much experience in the outdoors but perhaps not so much in writing. I think I expected an indepth psychological analysis of each survival situation.
"Must read for all outdoors people"
An excellent read and should be standard for all outdoors groups to include in their recommended reading list. Life saving material.
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