THE COMPLETE ILLUSTRATED HANDBOOK OF SURVIVAL

This is the ultimate survival manual, a comprehensive practical all-climate, all-terrain guide to the basics of wilderness travel, outdoor living and surviving extreme situations. In addition substantial sections highlight threats and dangers in everyday life, from terrorism, accident, fire, flood or crime, and provide practical solutions and professional teaching for urban prevention, protection and safety strategies, including step-by-step self-defence training.

Whether in the desert, jungle, high sierra or snow-bound tundra, all facets of camping and travelling in remote or hard-to-reach environments are presented with simple step-by-step guidelines and clear illustrations. This expert and broad-ranging book will show you how to ride a camel, kayak safely down white water or cycle over rough terrain.

The book brings together all the practical tips and techniques needed to have a successful camping adventure when things go right, and all the skills you'll need to rely on when things go wrong. Emergency treatments, signalling and orienteering, trapping fish for food, using rocks and jungle foliage for shelter, finding water in the desert, telling poisonous from life-saving plants, reading animal tracks and cloud signs - a wide range of potentially life-saving skills are covered in this complete guide to wilderness survival.

Further sections provide essential guidance on how to survive disasters of all types on land, at sea, and in the air, and how to be streetwise and preserve personal and family safety in the urban jungle. There are features on car accidents, office and home fires, floods, air crashes and terrorism, and a big feature of the book is an extensive training course in personal self-defence techniques and simple martial arts.

From shelters to safe drinking water, from fires and flooded rivers to first aid, from stalking wildlife to staying safe from animal attacks, over 1400 specially commissioned real-life photographs show the techniques in easy-to-follow stages.

For first-time and fully experienced campers and explorers alike, this illustrated and expert guide shows you exactly what you need to know to enjoy the great outdoors safely and successfully, how to survive in the most extreme conditions, and how to protect yourself and your loved-ones in today's increasingly dangerous and threatening urban landscape.