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...SURVIVAL by Cord Christian Troebst. 312 pages. Doubleday...
They acted stupidly. Why did neither one of them think of using the gasoline or the cigarette lighter from the car to get a fire going? Yet millions of people nowadays, claims Author Cord Christian Troebst (Conquest of the Sea) would have behaved just as ineffectually. In this brisk compendium, Author Troebst recounts a number of harrowing adventure stories and gives some ingenious advice on the art of survival...
...says Author Troebst, in the event of catastrophe, nothing is so important for survival as native wit and will. He recalls the case of Ralph Flores and Helen Klaben, who ingeniously contrived to survive for 50 days without food in freezing winter weather after their plane crashed in Canada. Even more ingenious were Viryl and Laura Scott, who in 1959 set off with their six children on an excursion into the Grand Canyon, foolishly turned off the main road onto a little-used sidetrack. There the car broke down. They were 50 miles from the nearest town, and the temperature...
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