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A noble fight for Nature
My new book, A WILD IDEA, is the biography of Doug Tompkins, the man who founded The North Face and then went on to save millions of acres of land in South America.
His life is a rollicking adventure, a passionate fight for nature.
Coming out in August this year, A WILD IDEA will challenge your concept of what is possible in a single lifetime.
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His life is a rollicking adventure, a passionate fight for nature.
Coming out in August this year, A WILD IDEA will challenge your concept of what is possible in a single lifetime.
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438 Days: An Extraordinary True Story of Survival at Sea
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2015
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33 Men
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2010
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Two Owls at Eton
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1960
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5 editions
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as I wrote in the book, they could not communicate so he used a stick to make drawings. there was serious language issues here, plus Alvarenga cant re
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“Dr. John Leach, a survival psychologist. “You’ve got built-in resilience, so you can bounce back when you get knocked [down] by a survival situation. My argument with that is that if you’ve gone through a survival situation, you’ve gone through a POW camp, or you’ve been taken hostage, or you’ve been through sea survival, you will not be bouncing back to what you were before. You will not be bouncing back to who you were before. Because you won’t be the same person. If you think you are meant to be the same person, you can have problems. You’ve had an experience that has changed you.”
― 438 Days: An Extraordinary True Story of Survival at Sea
― 438 Days: An Extraordinary True Story of Survival at Sea
“What you can afford to eat is dependent upon your fluid availability,” says Professor Michael Tipton. “When you eat protein this creates ammonia in your body, then urea, which is poisonous to your system. To eliminate urea you need liquid to produce urine. So if you eat a lot of protein you raise your fluid requirements . . . these things are intimately related.”
― 438 Days: An Extraordinary True Story of Survival at Sea
― 438 Days: An Extraordinary True Story of Survival at Sea
“Alvarenga next invented games with the animals. He used a dried puffer fish as a soccer ball and tossed it midship, which became “midfield.” Because it was covered in spines the birds could not puncture the balloonlike fish, but due to their hunger they struck it again and again, flipping the “ball” from one end of the “field” to the other. To stir up action Alvarenga tossed chunks of fish and bird entrails across the deck, then watched as the captive birds attacked and chased the puffer fish. He named one bird Cristiano Ronaldo, another Rolando and put Maradona and Messi on the same team. Alvarenga spent entire afternoons as both fan and announcer, immersed in this world of bird football. His favorite matches were Mexico vs. Brazil. In this world, Mexico always won.”
― 438 Days: One man's incredible story of survival against all odds
― 438 Days: One man's incredible story of survival against all odds
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