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

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 exhaust [...]
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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.