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THE THIRD MAN FACTOR: TRUE STORIES OF SURVIVAL IN EXTREME ENVIRONMENTS John Geiger 2009 1st ed Hardcover DJ Fine
By Geiger, John
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New York, 2009. 310 pp. Hardcover with dust jacket. Fine.
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.
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