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

Kenneth Kamler

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Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Publication Date: 2004
Binding: Softcover
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A physician, NASA consultant, and expert on the extreme conditions that confront the human body journeys into six inhospitable environments--underwater, water surface, jungle, desert, high altitude, and outer space--to examine the reaction of the body to heat, cold, pressure, starvation, and exhaustion and its own innate survival strategies. Reprint.


 

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