BajaBlanca
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Have you read this book?
I just finished reading THE SURVIVORS CLUB by Ben Sherwood.
Very, very interesting. Incredible stories. Some quite bizarre.
There was a test one could take to find out your survival score but it is not, unfortunately, available any more.
Please tell me what your take on the book is!
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TMW
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I just purchased a CD copy to listen to on my next Baja trip. It'll be a month or so before I can tell you what I think about it. I personally believe
survival is mostly a matter of being prepared and being lucky with being strong mentally a real plus.
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Quite a few years ago I read 'Ordeal by Hunger', an account of the Donner Party tragedy on their migration west. I don't recall the numbers, but the
survial rate of the women was much higher than the men!
I guess it is nature's way of insuring a better out come for rebuilding the population of a species.
If you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much space!
"Could do better if he tried!" Report card comments from most of my grade school teachers. Sadly, still true!
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motoged
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The Donner Party...were more men than women canabalized?
Don't believe everything you think....
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Verdad?
Were it not for the abdomen, man would easily reckon himself a god.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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DanO
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There were 48 men and 32 women in the party. 28 men died and 8 women died.
\"Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.\" -- Frank Zappa
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BajaBlanca
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that sure is impressive (28 vs 8)
What I can tell you is that according to the survivor club book, yours truly is NOT going to survive a plane crash....were I ever in such a situation,
at least now I can be a bit better prepared and hopefully beat those odds! Gone are the days of waltzing on and off an airplane, that's for sure.
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If you want to learn more about the Donner Party, "Desperate Passage" is a great book. In that time period, it makes sense that more men died. Men
were expected to do the brunt of the physical and more dangerous labor (hunting, hauling, etc), which expends more resources. In addition, women's
bodies have a few metabolic strategies for conserving fat (because it helps maintain fertility) that men don't have.
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No - but I just read and recommend "Deep Survival - Who lives, who dies and why."
Cheerio,
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When the way comes to an end, then change. Having changed, you pass through.
~ I-Ching
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pauldavidmena
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Here is an interesting, skeptical review of the book from the Washington Post. To the OP's point, the website offering a "Survival IQ" test no
longer exists. Given that I'm flying in just 4 days, I may have to leave it off of my reading list.
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BajaBlanca
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boy, what a scathing review....I personally suggest reading the book before you fly! I thought the information was spot on. It is what it is.
I liked the words of the survivors, their messages, their inspiring philosophies of life. That is what I got out of the book!
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pauldavidmena
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Some reviewers take pleasure in skewering their targets as a means of entertainment, so I took this one with a grain of salt. For what it's worth, I'd
still like to read the book and make up my own mind about it.
[Edited on 1-17-2017 by pauldavidmena]
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