Surviving the Extremes: What Happens to the Body and Mind at the Limits of Human Endurance

Kamler, Kenneth

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UPC:
9780143034513
Binding:
Paperback
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Publication Date:
12/28/2004
Release Date:
12/28/2004
Author:
Kenneth Kamler
Language:
english
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Surviving the Extremes brings personal experience and scientific knowledge together beautifully, giving us narrative that are powerful, moving, and very real. -Oliver Sacks

A true-life scientific thriller no reader will forget, Surviving the Extremes takes us to the farthest reaches of the earth as well as into the uncharted territory within the human body, spirit, and brain. A vice president of the legendary Explorers Club, as well as surgeon, explorer, and masterful storyteller, Dr. Kenneth Kamler has spent years discovering what happens to the human body in extreme environmental conditions. Divided into six sectionsjungle, high seas, desert, underwater, high altitude, and outer spacethis book uses firsthand testimony and documented accounts to investigate the science of what a body goes through and explains why people surviveand why they sometimes dont.