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A Life Beneath The Surface - The Inside Story of the Thai Cave Rescue

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Beschreibung

<p><b>THE ENTHRALLING INSIDE STORY OF THE THAI CAVE RESCUE FROM THE MAN AT THE HEART OF THE MISSION, AS SEEN IN<i> THE SUNDAY TIMES</i></b><br><br><b>'The British divers are all heroes'</b> Clive Cussler<br><b>'A case study in courage'</b> Ron Howard, Oscar-winning director of <i>Apollo 13</i><br><i>________</i><br><br><b>Thailand, July 2018. </b>Twelve boys and their football coach vanish into Tham Luang caves just as the monsoon rains hit. A mile from the surface they are trapped by rising flood waters. All attempts to reach them fail.<br><br> As hope for their survival fades a retired British firefighter tinkering with homemade cave-diving kit gets a call.<br><br> Rick Stanton and his dive partner race to the other side of the world.<br> The boys have been missing for days.<br> Each hour, their chance of escape shrinks.<br> Rick must swim, crawl and squeeze through treacherously tight submerged tunnels hunting for them.<br><br><b> But that is not the impossible part.</b><br><br> Because if by some miracle they're alive then somehow he must bring the boys back out again . . .<br><br><b> He doesn't know it yet but all his life he's been training for this very moment . . .</b><br><br><i>________</i><br><br> <b>'The riveting, behind-the-scenes story. Captivating'</b> <i>SUNDAY POST</i><br><br> <b>'A definitive view of the rescue. You probably won't read a better-written book about diving this year. I just had to get to the end'</b> <i>DIVER MAGAZINE</i><br><br><b>'Diver Rick Stanton relives the rescue of the century' </b><i>SUNDAY TIMES</i><br><br><b>'Remarkable . . . the chronicle of a man from a humble background who worked devilishly hard . . . and was willing to go anywhere to help people in the most dire cave disasters'</b> <i>WALL STREET JOURNAL</i><br><br><b>THE RESCUE WATCHED BY THE WORLD</b><br><br>'The Thai cave rescue was phenomenally dangerous, and the work of true heroes' <b><i>iNews</i></b><br><br>'[The rescue] was fantastic, it really was . . .'<b> HRH

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781405944106

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

197 x 133 x 32 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

Verlag / Hersteller

Penguin Books Ltd (UK)