The Third Man Factor: Surviving the Impossible

Geiger, John

ISBN 10: 1602861072 / ISBN 13: 9781602861077

Published by Hachette Books, 2009

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First Printing with full number line down to 1. Inscription on front flyleaf. Otherwise inside is clean and unmarked. Dent, tear, and mangling on book board at top of spine (see photos 6 and 7). Dust jacket has tear with piece missing at top left front. Dust jacket has wear. See photos.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Third Man Factor: Surviving the Impossible
• Publisher: Hachette Books
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1602861072
• ISBN 13: 9781602861077
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fair
• Dimensions: 2.54W x 14.922H x 21.907D centimeters 2.54 centimeters width by 14.922 centimeters height by 21.907 centimeters depth
• Weight: 426.377 grams
• Seller catalogs:
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  • Religion Spirituality Mythology Folklore

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Synopsis

The Third Man Factor is an extraordinary account of how people at the very edge of death experience the sense of an unseen presence beside them who encourages them to make one final effort to survive. This incorporeal being offered them a feeling of hope, protection, and guidance, and left the person convinced he or she was not alone. There is a name for this phenomenon: It's called the Third Man Factor.

If only a handful of people had ever encountered the Third Man, it might be dismissed as an unusual delusion shared by a few overstressed minds. But over the years, the experience has occurred again and again, to 9/11 survivors, mountaineers, divers, polar explorers, prisoners of war, sailors, shipwreck survivors, aviators, and astronauts. All have escaped traumatic events only to tell strikingly similar stories of having sensed the close presence of a helper or guardian. The force has been explained as everything from hallucination to divine intervention. Recent neurological research suggests something else.

Bestselling and award-winning author John Geiger has completed six years of physiological, psychological, and historical research on The Third Man. He blends his analysis with compelling human stories such as Ron diFrancesco, the last survivor out of the World Trade Center on 9/11; Ernest Shackleton, the legendary explorer whose account of the Third Man inspired T.S. Eliot to write of it in The Wasteland; Jerry Linenger, a NASA astronaut who experienced The Third Man while aboard the Mir space station-and many more.

Fascinating for any reader, The Third Man Factor at last explains this secret to survival, a Third Man who-in the words of famed climber Reinhold Messner-"leads you out of the impossible."

About the Author

John Geiger is the author of five books, including the bestsellers The Third Man Factor: Surviving the Impossible and Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition. A member of the editorialboard of the Toronto Globe and Mail, he is also a fellow of the Explorers Club, governor of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, and chair ofthe Society's Expeditions Committee. His work has been translated into nine languages. Born in Ithaca, New York, he lives in Toronto.