Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, And Why

After her plane crashes, a seventeen-year-old girl spends eleven days walking through the Peruvian jungle. Against all odds, with no food, shelter, or equipment, she gets out. A better-equipped group of adult survivors of the same crash sits down and dies. What makes the difference?

Examining such stories of miraculous endurance and tragic death 'Deep Survival' takes us from the tops of snowy mountains and the depths of oceans to the workings of the brain that control our behaviour. Through close analysis of case studies, Laurence Gonzales describes the essence of a survivor and offers twelve "Rules of Survival". In the end, he finds, it's what's in your heart, not what's in your pack, that separates the living from the dead.