Лучшие книги Джона Гейгера

Гибель экспедиции сэра Джона Франклина - одна из самых загадочных страниц в истории освоения Арктики. Два корабля Ее Величества, снаряженные по последнему слову прогресса, навсегда исчезли в белом безмолвии. После долгих поисков останки некоторых членов их команд удалось обнаружить на пустынных островах Канадского архипелага. Эти кости наводили на страшные догадки,…

The revised text of "Frozen in Time" expands on the history of nineteenth century British Arctic exploration and specifically the Franklin expedition, placing it in the context of other expeditions of the era, including those commanded by George Back and James Clark Ross.

The Franklin expedition was not alone in suffering early and unexplained deaths. Indeed, the expeditions of both Back (1837) and Ross (1849) were forced to retreat because of the rapacious illness that stalked their ships. The authors make the case that this illness was due to the crews’ overwhelming reliance on a new technology: tinned foods. This not only exposed the seamen to lead, an insidious poison, but also left them vulnerable to scurvy.

The revised "Frozen in Time" will also update the research outlined in the original edition, and will introduce independent confirmation of Dr. Beattie’s lead hypothesis, along with corroboration of his discovery of physical evidence for both scurvy and cannibalism. In addition, the book includes a new introduction written by Margaret Atwood, who has long been fascinated by the role of the Franklin Expedition in Canada’s literary conscience.

The bestselling author of Frozen in Time and The Third Man Factor explores a haunting phenomenon—the apparition of an unbidden angelic presence in times of great stress that provides guidance and comfort

John Geiger’s last book, The Third Man Factor: Surviving the Impossible, explored an extraordinary idea: that people under enormous stress, sometimes at the edge of death, experience a sense of an incorporeal being beside them, who encourages them to survive. Through his research and the response from readers around the world, it became clear to Geiger that explorers and adventurers are not the sole recipients of such interventions.

It’s a phenomenon encountered across the world and shared by men and women, the religious and the non-religious, throughout history. Under extreme stress, people often encounter a benevolent being that can perform everyday miracles—saving lives, offering advice, providing a balm to victims and those in the throes of disease.

The Angel Effect describes people’s encounters with this power when faced with physical and sexual assaults; after terrible car accidents and airplane crashes; during events like a shark attack or a bank heist; in the midst of a long illness or in cases of persistent, gnawing loneliness. It explores how an ancient prayer, discovered by monks in the Egyptian desert in the early Christian era, may hold the key to accessing the effect at will.

Le mystère de la survie dans des environnements extrêmes
L'ami invisible offre un extraordinaire compte rendu de la perception par certaines personnes, à l'orée de la mort, de la présence à leurs côtés d'un être incorporel qui les encourage à faire un ultime effort pour s'en sortir.
Cet ami invisible s'est manifesté à d'innombrables reprises : à des survivants du 11 septembre, des alpinistes, des plongeurs, des prisonniers de guerre, des navigateurs, des aviateurs et des astronautes de Shackleton à Messner. Tous ont surmonté des traumatismes pour rendre compte, en termes étonnamment semblables, de la présence auprès d'eux d'une aide ou d'un ange gardien. On a voulu y voir à peu près tout et n'importe quoi, depuis de simples hallucinations jusqu'à une intervention divine. De récentes recherches neurologiques suggèrent cependant une autre piste. L'ami invisible associe l'histoire à l'analyse scientifique et à de remarquables récits d'aventures dans une tentative de révéler le secret de la survie, cet ami invisible qui, pour reprendre les mots du légendaire alpiniste Reinhold Messner, « vous
entraîne au-delà de l'impossible ».