ESSENTIAL SURVIVAL MANUAL

Expert advice for extreme situations, this book could save your life. You can curl up under a table or you can react in a calm, clear manner and dramatically increase your chances of survival in a variety of extreme situations. This book covers all the basics - fire-lighting, shelter-building, water collection, first aid, surviving cold, wet conditions, surviving in hot conditions, street survival, self-defence, basic defence stances, surviving terrorism, new and cyber threats to survival, navigation on land, search and rescue, attracting attention, international distress signalling, the body's needs, cooking fires and cooking methods, hunting and trapping, what to eat, edible and medicinal plants, surviving a hitchhike, travelling by car, air or sea, escape and evasion and a final word on inevitable death. There are diagrams such as stars in the Northern and Southern Hemisphere, and natural north indicators to spot like plants growing towards the Sun. Very clear diagrams and brilliant, succinct advice. 192pp.