The Third Man Factor: Surviving the Impossible - Couverture souple

Geiger, John

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1847674194 ISBN 13 : 9781847674197

Editeur : Canongate Books, 2009

Synopsis

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 who 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 shared by a few overstressed minds. But the amazing thing is this: 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. The mysterious force has been explained as everything from hallucination to divine intervention. Recent neurological research suggests something else. In The Third Man Factor John Geiger combines history, scientific analysis and great adventure stories to explain this secret to survival, a Third Man who - in the words of legendary Italian climber Reinhold Messner - 'leads you out of the impossible.'

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

John Grigsby Geiger was born in Ithaca, New York, and graduated in history from the University of Alberta. The author of four books of non-fiction, his work has been translated into nine languages. He is Editorial Board Editor at The Globe and Mail, and was 2004-05 St. Clair Balfour Fellow at Massey College, University of Toronto. He is a Governor of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society and Chairman of the Society's Expeditions Committee, and a Member of the Advisory Board of Wings Worldquest.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Canongate Books
• Date d'édition: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1847674194
• ISBN 13: 9781847674197
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible