Wondery Presents: How to Survive Against the Odds

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🗓️ 2 June 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Inspired by Wondery’s hit podcast Against the Odds—learn how to survive whatever nature can throw at you through gut-twisting true stories of survival on the brink

How to Survive Against the Odds places you at the center of fifteen real life-or-death scenarios. Each story explores the physiological responses of the human body under unbearable conditions, how to counteract them, and strategies for survival from doctors and psychologists. Through these tales, we see the grit, willpower, and know-how needed to navigate out of a host of merciless situations.

This invaluable survival guide includes tips on how to endure being:

ADRIFT AT SEA: Learn how to cure turtle meat, procure potable water, and survive on a life raft.
MAULED BY A BEAR: Black bears? Fight back. Grizzly bears? Play dead. Polar bears? Start praying. You’ll learn how to triage wounds using the MARCH method and how to spot the difference between a bear’s bluff charge and an actual attack.
BURIED BY AN EARTHQUAKE: Find out how to survive the initial crush, maintain your sanity if trapped under the rubble, and “think away your hunger.”
And so much more!

This might just be the most important book you’ll ever read. Armed with the information in How to Survive Against the Odds and when faced with similar threats, you may also find that you have what it takes to defy death and live to tell your story.

Order your copy of HOW TO SURVIVE AGAINST THE ODDS now at

Wondery.fm/survivalguidebook

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Mike Corey, host of the Wondery podcast Against the Odds, where we share thrilling stories of survival and put you in the shoes of real people who look death in the eye and live to tell the tale.
0:12.8	Now, inspired by our podcast, comes a new book, How to Survive Against the Ods, Tales and tips for animal attacks and natural disasters.
0:22.1	This unique guidebook combines true tales, expert insights, and life-saving tips.
0:27.4	Go inside life or death situations where everyday people survive nature's most extreme
0:33.1	scenarios and learn how you can too.
0:36.3	You'll hear from experts, including top doctors,
0:38.9	about what happens to your mind and body in life-threatening situations. Plus, get important
0:44.3	tips on what to do and what not to do when faced with a scenario that is truly against the
0:50.7	odds. In these tales, you'll hear about the grit, the willpower, and know-how
0:55.6	needed to endure shipwrecks, bear attacks, tornadoes, and more. As a special treat for our listeners,
1:02.1	we're excited to give you an exclusive sneak peek at a chapter of the audiobook where we share
1:07.0	one man's survival story after he was buried by an earthquake.
1:15.6	January 26, 835 a.m.
1:20.0	His father's booming voice snaps Virol DeLoll awake.
1:22.6	Get up! Delal grumbles.
1:24.9	Please, Dad, I need a few more minutes.
1:28.5	The 24-year-old is stretched out on a mattress on the floor,
1:33.3	the only space available in this crowded second-floor apartment in Bouges India,
1:36.3	where he's on vacation with five members of his family.
1:38.5	His father nudges him again.
1:40.6	Fine, but move to the bed.
1:43.0	I need to put your mattress in the other room.
	...

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