WINGS WorldQuest presents
John Geiger's The Third Man Factor
Reading/Discussion & Booksigning
The National Arts Club
February 11, 2010
7 p.m.
When on the edge of death, people often report experiencing the sense of an incorporeal being near them who encourages them to make one final effort to survive. The experience has occurred to 9/11 survivors, mountaineers, divers, polar explorers, prisoners of war, lone sailors, aviators and astronauts. All have escaped traumatic events to tell strikingly similar experiences of the close presence of a helper or guardian. The mysterious force has been explained as everything from hallucination to divine intervention. Recent neurological research suggests something else. In The Third Man Factor, John Geiger combines history, scientific analysis and great adventure stories to explain this secret to survival. The Third Man-in the words of legendary Italian climber Reinhold Messner-"leads you out of the impossible."
"Engrossing-and formidable." -Los Angeles Times.
John Geiger is an editor of the Toronto Globe and Mail. He is the author of five books of non-fiction, his work has been translated into nine languages. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and the Explorers Club, and a Member of the Advisory Board of Wings WorldQuest.
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