The Survival Handbook

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From DK Publishing, The Survival Handbook, essential skills for outdoor adventure.

This book could save your life.

Would you know what to do if you met a bear in the woods? How exactly do you light a fire in the rain? What should you do if stranded in shark-infested waters? Get the answer to these and many more questions in this no-nonsense guide to survival trainning and wilderness adventure. Volume includes:

SURVIVAL BASICS: Get fit, gear up and plan your expedition.

CAMP CRAFT: Choose the best campsites, find water, make fire.

ON THE TRAIL: Navigate with or without a compass, night or day.

IN THE WILDERNESS: Make shelters and catch and cook wild food.

EXTREME SURVIVAL: Improvise, apply essential first-aid techniques, mount a rescue, get found - on land and sea.

TAKE ON THE TOUGHEST CHALLENGES THAT NATURE CAN THROW AT YOU.

318 Pages

About the author:

After joing the Royal Navy in 1977, Colin Towell qualified as a Combat Survival Instructor with 22 Regiment SAS (the British Army's elite Specal Air Service), and has spent over 30 years teaching land, sea, desert, jungle and cold-weather survival skills-as well as survival and conduct in captivity - to UK Army, Navy, Royal Marines, and Air Force personnel. He was the Royal Navy's Chief Survival Instructor and also served three years as Chief Instructor at the US Navy SERE (Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Extraction) school. Colin saw service in the Falklands, Bosnia, Germany, USA and Northern Ireland, and still serves as a Reserve Chief Instructor with the UK Defense SERE training Organization, training both instructors and students. He provided the survival training, equipment and rescue coordination for Sir Richard Branson's baloon global circumnavigation attempts, and also trial, evaluates, and instructs in the use of specialized survival equipment, both in the UK and abroad.

The Survival Handbook, Essential Skills for Outdoor Adventure is an officially licensed product of the Boy Scouts of America.