Survive!: Essential Skills and Tactics to Get You Out of Anywhere - Alive
by Les Stroud
Book Summary Information
Author: Les StroudEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-11-01
ISBN: 0061373516
Number of pages: 384
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Product features:
- ISBN13: 9780061373510
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
- Click here to view our Condition Guide and Shipping Prices
Book Reviews of Survive!: Essential Skills and Tactics to Get You Out of Anywhere - Alive
Book Review: Confidence Building, Helpful Directions for Recovering from Being Lost or Injured with No Help in Sight
Summary: 5 Stars
If you like extreme adventures (particularly by yourself) or just want to feel safer when you drive out into lonely, untraveled areas, Survive! will teach you what you need to know about how to prepare for your trip, use your preparations for the best results, and avoid the kind of stupid mistakes that can be costly (even lethal).
Unless you are a survival expert or someone who takes survival courses, you probably don't remember much about what to do when in trouble other than what you might have learned in scouts as a youngster. That information, while somewhat helpful, is clearly dated (there are better solutions available) and may sometimes wrong (such as encouraging you to rub snow on frostbite).
Most of us find ourselves at times in a wilderness area with no one else in sight . . . feeling a little concerned about what could go wrong and then how to recover. I found reading Survive! to be extremely encouraging from that point of view. I read the book with the idea in mind of visiting a certain wilderness area and developed a plan for how I could make that trip much safer and more comfortable. To me, the benefits were enormous.
The book is organized so that you can take it along with you while on a wilderness journey and easily look up what you need to know. I advise that. You won't remember critical details of what to do otherwise. Just one tip (such as how to make snowshoes out of car seat and seat belts) can save a stranded driver's life. I recommend you keep a copy in your car's glove compartment as well. If nothing else, the pages can make for excellent tinder when you make a fire using your car battery!
Mr. Stroud has a nice writing style, illustrates his points well, and provides lots of relevant examples. Surviving may not be easy. Surviving may not be pleasant. But those who are counting on you to survive will appreciate it if you do. Mr. Stroud's book will help you have the confidence and mental toughness to make the right decisions and keep at it until you survive and make it to where you can get help.
It made me feel like a ten-year-old again to read the book, getting ready for my first overnight hike and camping trip into the Mojave Desert. I'm sure you'll recall many of your outdoor adventures as you think about how this advice would have been helpful in the past.
The only areas where the book could have been expanded are those where a lone driver gets stuck. Here's an example: Most people don't know how to improve traction by using techniques like deflating tires in sand, putting traction-improving materials under the wheels, and digging a pathway out of the stuck area. To do all this requires having a shovel in your trunk and being able to assess which methods fit your problem.
I recommend that Mr. Stroud write a car-owner's version of this book for those who drive by themselves and might get stuck or break down in a lonely area. Most people could get themselves out of trouble if they only knew how.
More Survive!: Essential Skills and Tactics to Get You Out of Anywhere - Alive reviews:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Newest Review
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Newest Review
Health, Mind & Body Books
Book Subjects
- Arts & Photography
- Audiobooks on Cassette
- Audiobooks on CD
- Biographies & Memoirs
- Business & Investing
- Children's Books
- Comics & Graphic Novels
- Computers & Internet
- Cooking, Food & Wine
- e-Books
- Engineering
- Entertainment
- Gay & Lesbian
- Health, Mind & Body
- History
- Home & Garden
- Horror
- Law
- Literature & Fiction
- Medicine
- Mystery & Thrillers
- Nonfiction
- Outdoors & Nature
- Parenting & Families
- Professional & Technical
- Reference
- Religion & Spirituality
- Romance
- Science
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Sports
- Teens
- Travel
Most talked about in Interesting Books
Before You Leap: A Frog's Eye View of Life's Greatest Lessonsby Kermit the Frog
Disney; Published: 2006-10-10; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $4.00
Price in other shops:
Italian Horrorby Jim Harper
Luminary Press a Division of Midnight Marquee Press, Inc.; Published: 2005-09; Paperback; Book
Best price: $25.00
The B-Movie Survival Guideby Gary Cook
Wildthings Publishing; Published: 1999-02-28; Paperback; Book
Best price: $9.94
Price in other shops:
The Horror Movie Survival Guideby Matteo Molinari, Jim Kamm
Berkley Trade; Published: 2001-04-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $9.95
Price in other shops:
The Zen of Zombie: Better Living Through the Undeadby Scott Kenemore
Skyhorse Publishing; Published: 2007-10-17; Paperback; Book
Best price: $7.00
Price in other shops:
The Undead and Philosophy: Chicken Soup for the Soulless (Popular Culture and Philosophy)Open Court; Published: 2006-08-29; Paperback; Book
Best price: $10.00
Price in other shops:
Chased By Sea Monstersby Nigel Marven, Jasper James
DK ADULT; Published: 2004-02-02; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $16.28
Price in other shops:
The Complete Guide to Prehistoric Lifeby Tim Haines, Paul Chambers
Firefly Books; Published: 2007-01-19; Paperback; Book
Best price: $1.80
Price in other shops:
Cemetery Stories: Haunted Graveyards, Embalming Secrets, and the Life of a Corpse After Deathby Katherine Ramsland
It Books; Published: 2001-10-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $5.79
Price in other shops:
Covert Persuasion: Psychological Tactics and Tricks to Win the Gameby Kevin Hogan, James Speakman
Wiley; Published: 2006-09-18; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $14.41
Price in other shops:
Similar books summaries and other product reviews
Build the Perfect Survival Kitby John D. McCann
Krause Publications; Published: 2005-04-05; Paperback; Book
Best price: $8.43
Price in other shops:
Survivorman: Alone in the American WildernessDiscovery Channel; Release date: 2010-02-23; Published: 2009; DVD
Best price: $14.98
SAS Survival Guide Handbook (Collins Gem)by John 'lofty' Wiseman
Collins Reference; Published: 2006-04-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $5.23
Price in other shops:
SAS Survival Handbook, Revised Edition: For Any Climate, in Any Situationby John 'lofty' Wiseman
Harper Paperbacks; Published: 2009-03-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $10.83
Price in other shops:
Primitive Skills and Crafts: An Outdoorsman's Guide to Shelters, Tools, Weapons, Tracking, Survival, and MoreSkyhorse Publishing; Published: 2007-08-17; Paperback; Book
Best price: $8.00
Price in other shops:
Man vs. Wild: Survival Techniques from the Most Dangerous Places on Earthby Bear Grylls
Hyperion; Published: 2008-04-29; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $10.99
Price in other shops:
Ultimate Guide to Wilderness Living: Surviving with Nothing But Your Bare Hands and What You Find in the Woodsby John McPherson, Geri McPherson
Ulysses Press; Published: 2008-05-28; Paperback; Book
Best price: $9.46
Price in other shops:
Survivorman: Season 2SURVIVORMAN; Release date: 2008-10-14; DVD
Best price: $9.99
Price in other shops:
Survivorman: Season ThreeSURVIVORMAN; Release date: 2009-06-09; DVD
Best price: $9.99
Price in other shops:
SurvivormanSTROUD,LES; Release date: 2007-06-05; DVD
Best price: $7.74
Price in other shops: