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Mind of a Survivor

What the wild has taught me about survival and success
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In Mind of a Survivor by Megan Hine, the author, a world-renowned survival expert, takes readers on a journey through some of the planet's harshest environments. She shares gripping personal stories and the profound mental strategies needed to survive extreme conditions, revealing what it truly takes to endure and adapt. The book intertwines her adventures with insightful reflections on resilience, resourcefulness, and the human spirit's powerful capacity for survival.
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You might enjoy this book if you're fascinated by survival stories and the psychology behind enduring extreme situations. With insights from a seasoned survival expert, it's perfect for those interested in the mental and physical challenges faced in the wild, exploring what it takes to thrive in nature's harshest conditions.

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An inspirational survival memoir by one of the world's best known wilderness experts and right-hand woman to Bear Grylls, Megan Hine.

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Shortlisted for the Great Outdoors Book of the Year

Surviving in the wild takes a great deal of strength. Often faced with frozen tundra, sweltering deserts, humid jungles, perilous mountains, and fast-flowing rivers, Megan Hine is no stranger to perilous conditions. Whilst leading expeditions and bushcraft survival courses and in her work on television shows such as Bear Gryll's Mission Survive and Running Wild, she has explored the corners of the globe in pursuit of adventure.

Faced with the toughest of conditions: bad weather, lack of food, and being in the presence of predators is the ultimate test of character. Often, the biggest challenge to overcome is in the head. In these situations, the human brain is simultaneously the greatest asset and biggest liability. Not everyone is suited to the great outdoors, and when danger calls, many aren't as well-equipped to survive. No amount of top-of-the-range kit will save you if you don't have the right frame of mind. Here, Megan Hine examines the human ability and instinct for survival, showing us how others have developed the attitudes and attributes to thrive in the most dangerous situations, and how those same attitudes and attributes help them confront problems and obstacles at work and at home.

Being chased through the jungle by armed opium farm guards, abseiling past bears, and lighting fires with tampons, Megan has seen and done it all. In Mind of a Survivor, she takes you along for a series of life-and-death adventures and shows you what happens to people when they are pushed to their limits. Inspirational rather than instructional, Megan examines the human ability and instinct for survival, sharing the life tools that she uses and showing how they can as easily be applied to more domestic everyday lifeβ€”from careers to relationships, from overcoming adversity to decision making. Filled with her own experiences, Mind of a Survivor is packed full of adventure and can help people survive in any situation and cope with whatever life throws at them.

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Megan Hine's book explores the psychology of survival through her awe-inspiring experiences and a can-do mindset that's applicable to everyday life. It is praised for its inspiring and moving insights into human strength during crises, with Hine being recognised as the genuine article in survival expertise.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781473649316

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 05 April 2018

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Coronet Books

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 24.0mm

Width: 128.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 200g

Pages: 272

About the Author

Megan Hine is a British adventurer, wilderness expedition leader and survival expert. She also acts as a consultant for private individuals and on television shows around the world including Bear Grylls: Mission Survive and Running Wild. With a lifelong thirst for travel and adventure Megan has amassed a huge amount of expertise in all aspects of the outdoors. By pushing her mental and physical limits in extreme environments Megan has explored remote jungles, arid deserts and high and cold mountains; taking private clients, celebrities and television crews to extreme and beautiful places they didn't even know existed.

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