The Third Man Factor: Surviving the Impossible

di John Geiger (Autore)

Canongate Books, 2010

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 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'.

• Autore: John Geiger
• Editore: Canongate Books
• Anno: 2010
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 304 p.
• Dimensioni: 196 x 128 mm
• Peso: 205 gr.
• EAN: 9781847674203

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