Jungle Travel Survival or How People Heal

Jungle Travel & Survival

Author: John B Walden

Adventure travel, whether in the rain forests of Brazil or the jungles of Belize, can be filled with risk and sometimes lift-threatening situations. Now here is a complete guide on how to cope with and survive the unique and sometimes deadly challenges of a jungle excursion. Dr. John Walden is a professor and associate dean of Medical School Development and Outreach at Marshall University. He has taken more than 75 trips into remote areas of the Amazon Basin.

Library Journal

In this illustrated guidebook, medical doctor Walden (Marshall Univ. Sch. of Medicine) discusses three main areas of concern for those planning to journey the rainforests of the world: how to prepare for the jungle, cope while on the trail, and effectively handle medical emergencies. Although the title may suggest a rather specialized handbook that will appeal to a very limited audience, there is actually much useful information for the common hiker. Walden, who has led many treks into the Amazon basin, offers knowledgeable advice on what to wear, how to build shelter, what plants and animals to eat, how to build fire, and how to handle extreme situations, such as the lack of food and drinking water. Especially valuable is the section on medical concerns in which Walden lists medicines one might need while on the trip, discusses how to avoid parasites and diseases, and explains what vaccinations are necessary. The bibliography is excellent. Recommended for all libraries. George M. Jenks, Bucknell Univ., Lewisburg, PA Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgments	vii
	Jungle Travel: An Introduction	ix
	Preparing for the Jungle
1	General Preparations	3
2	Medical Preparations	11
3	Gear	23
	Preparing Mentally for Your Journey
4	Cultural and Psychological Factors	41
5	Dynamics of Group Travel in Exotic Environments: Pitfalls and Personalities	55
6	Understanding Your Surroundings	65
	Thriving on the Trail
7	Coping with the Jungle Environment	73
8	Jungle Trekking	85
9	Camp Life	91
10	Hazards (Real and Imagined)	101
	Medical Concerns in the Tropics
11	Health Risrs to Travelers/Diarrhea/Malaria	123
12	Women in the Jungle	135
13	Traveling with Children in the Tropics	139
14	Infectious Diseases	145
15	Survival Strategies	157
	One Last Piece of Advice...	181
	References	183
	Index	193

Interesting textbook: MCTS or Crashing the Gate

How People Heal: Exploring the Scientific Basis of Subtle Energy in Healing

Author: Diane Goldner

For Diane Goldner, what began as an investigative story for The New York Times, became a four-year pilgrimage into the thriving yet controversial world of energy healing in America. Her report, How People Heal, serves as both an introduction to this world, and an engrossing narrative featuring in-depth portraits of healers Barbara Brennan and Rosalyn Bruyere. Goldner spent hours alongside these spiritual and savvy women witnessing their healing work, while casting a critical eye at the business side of their organizations.

How People Heal also introduces you to physicists mapping the effects of love and desire across time and space, nurses using therapeutic touch on hospital patients, and heart surgeons using energy medicine in the operating room. Most important, you'll meet Jonathan Kramer, Doris Dennard, Marilyn Schneider, and others like them, whose lives and life-threatening illnesses have been transformed by the work of energy healers.

How People Heal is the trade paper edition of the 1999 hardcover Infinite Grace: Where the Worlds of Science and Spiritual Healing Meet.

How People Heal takes you inside:

• schools and institutions training energy healers
• traditional hospitals and clinics integrating energy medicine into everyday practice
• labs measuring the effects of energy and consciousness on healing
• the hearts and minds of patients choosing to work with energy healers instead of conventional therapy