SuitabookSurvivors
David Long
- Reading
- Consider reading one account at a time, pausing after particularly graphic details or illustrations. Talk about what happened, what remains uncertain, and how the presentation affects your response.
- Themes
- Survival under extreme conditions: People survive shipwreck, expedition failure, plane crash, entrapment and medical emergency through different responses and circumstances. The collection appears to present survival situations as factual accounts, allowing readers to compare preparation, improvisation, endurance and assistance.
- The body under pressure: Accounts include amputation, wounds, parasites, freezing water and a heart that stops before revival. The book appears to explain remarkable bodily emergencies through concise true stories, while the graphic details may make the physical stakes vivid.
- Worth knowing
- Some episodes may deserve advance thought: one survivor amputates an arm, another eats raw shark and drinks its blood, and another treats maggots in wounds. The emotional effect of illustrations is also worth noticing.