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CBC journalist and Giller Prize-winning author Linden MacIntyre interviews John Geiger about The Third Man Factor on CBC Radio's The Current. Linden discusses the spiritualism of his own childhood, and recalls an interview he conducted with George Grant where there is a spiritual dimension.
From The Current's website: We started this segment with a reading from TS Eliot's "The Waste Land" a 1922 poem describing an arduous journey through a desolate land. Along the way, his narrator has a…
John Geiger will talk about The Third Man Factor at the 2010 Bristol Festival of ideas, held this May in the English city. The festival was established in 2005, and this year has a strong line-up of writers and thinkers, including Antonia Fraser, Dr. Ben Goldacre, John Boorman, Melvyn Bragg and the ubiquitous Christopher Hitchens. The festival aims "to stimulate minds and passions." Previous speakers include Brian Eno, Margaret Atwood and Germaine Greer. John's talk is scheduled for 28 May…
An article on the "Sensed-Presence Effect" appears in the April 2010 issue of Scientific American, the prestigious popular science and technology magazine. In the article, writer Michael Shermer cites The Third Man Factor, calling the book "gripping". Shermer also outlines some possible explanations for Third Man reports, some of which are discussed in the book, and some of which are not:
"I suggest four explanations: 1) The hallucination may be an extension of the normal sensed presence we…
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Iker Jimenez entrevisto al autor, John Geiger, en la radio, el dia 10 de Diciembre, 2009 para introducir este libro rercientemente publicado en España. Mas tarde fue ampliamente discutido en el programa de Television EL CUARTO MILENIO con la participacion del escritor Jose Sierra y el alpinista Sebastian Alvaro. Este programa se puede ver en You Tube con fecha 17 de Enero 2010.
"El Tercer Hombre: Sobrevivir a lo Imposible" presenta y analiza el hecho, que inicialmente describio Shackleton,…
"Today's top explorers share the latest from the frontlines of adventure." That's how the National Geographic Society announced that John Geiger will launch the Society's three-part Quest for Adventure series, part of National Geographic Live! At National Geographic headquarters, in Washington, D.C. on February 10, 2010. Later talks in the series feature Gretel Ehrlich, and Jonathan Waterman. For more information, and to buy tickets, visit National Geographic's website.
Lorna Dueck, the creator, host and executive producer of Listen Up TV, and president of Media Voice Generation, the Canadian charitable organization that produces the weekly broadcast, interviews John Geiger about The Third Man Factor. This interview was broadcast on several Christian television networks, as well as Global Television, a national commercial network in Canada.
Third Man Factor on The Globe 100 list of "best-reviewed, buzziest books"
The Third Man Factor was selected by book editors of The Globe and Mail one of the top 100 books of 2009 -- a list that includes novels by Margaret Atwood, A.S. Byatt, E.L. Doctorow, Colm Tóibín and non-fiction by Dave Eggers, Wade Davis, Richard Dawkins and Adam Gopnik. According to the Globe, the list represents "the 100 best and most influential books of the year" and "includes prize-winners and surprises, writers allegedly famous and those about to be, prose and poetry, science and social…
Read more...John Geiger was presented with the 2009 Stefansson Medal by Explorers Club vice-president Joseph Frey at a ceremony in Toronto on October 31, 2009. The medal, from The Explorers Club in Canada, was given to honour "an outstanding contribution to the history of exploration." Frey praised The Third Man Factor: Surviving the Impossible, as an important contribution to exploration literature and noted its international impact. The book documents historical, as well as numerous contemporary examples…
The Third Man phenomenon most often involves an unseen presence, so it makes it inherently difficult to depict. The cover of Weinstein Books' (U.S.) edition of The Third Man Factor has a striking representatioon of the phenomenon by designer Brian Chojnowski. An illustrator for Church Army Gazette did a good job in the 1930s of capturing the 'divine companion' reported by Sir Ernest Shackleton and his colleagues on South Georgia. But there have been relatively few other examples of Third Man…
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