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Last Breath : The Limits of Adventure by Peter Stark (2002, Trade Paperback)
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Last Breath : The Limits of Adventure, Paperback by Stark, Peter, ISBN 0345441516, ISBN-13 9780345441515, Brand New, Free shipping in the US In the wake of the growing interest in some of the world's most dangerous places, the author takes a close-up look at the physiological, psychological, and emotional stages that the human body and mind endures at the brink of death.
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Product Identifiers
PublisherRandom House Publishing Group
ISBN-100345441516
ISBN-139780345441515
eBay Product ID (ePID)2316890
Product Key Features
Book TitleLast Breath : the Limits of Adventure
Number of Pages320 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicEmergency Medicine, Death & Dying, Reference, Life Sciences / Human Anatomy & Physiology, Essays & Travelogues, Essays
Publication Year2002
GenreTravel, Sports & Recreation, Social Science, Science, Medical
AuthorPeter Stark
FormatTrade Paperback
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Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight10.4 Oz
Item Length8.2 in
Item Width5.5 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
Reviews"Un-put-downable stories of outdoor catastrophe and death, carefully and vividly told; they make us, unexpectedly, happy to be alive." --Ian Frazier "STARK'S MASTERFUL PACING AND USE OF DETAILS KEEP THE READER'S STOMACH TURNED IN SUSPENSE." Booklist "A FASCINATING BLEND OF STORYTELLING AND SCIENCE." New York Daily News
Synopsis"Forget the edge of your seat. Last Breath takes you to the edge of your life, for a pulse-pounding glimpse into the Great Beyond. There are many ways to risk your life in the out-of-doors, and Stark has captured them in exquisite and harrowing detail." -JIM ROBBINS Author of A Symphony in the Brain An enthralling blend of adventure and science, Last Breath re-creates in heart-stopping detail what happens to our bodies and our minds in the perilous last moments of life when an extreme adventure goes awry. Combining the adrenaline high of extreme sports with the startling facts of physiological reality, veteran travel and outdoor sports writer Peter Stark narrates a series of adventure stories in which thrill can cross the line to mortal peril. Each death or brush with death is at once a suspense story, a cautionary tale, and a medical thriller. Will they survive, or will they succumb? Readers will shiver with a man lost in the snowy woods, suffering from hypothermia and tearing off his clothes as he's burning up from the cold; they will hallucinate with a young woman stranded at the top of Annapurna as she experiences a cerebral edema; and while a kayaker tumbles helplessly underwater for two minutes, five minutes, ten minutes, readers, too, will gasp for their last breath.
