Mykel Hawke's Green Beret Survival Manual: Essential Strategies For: Shelter and Water, Food and Fire, Tools and Medicine, Navigation and Signaling, Survival Psychology and Getting Out Alive! [Hardcover]

Mykel Hawke (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 9, 2009

Green Beret and outdoor survival expert Mykel Hawke provides the most practical and accessible survival skills and information necessary for anyone to survive an unexpected situation in the outdoors. These are the most tried-and-true methods based on Hawke’s 25- year career as a captain in the US Army Green Berets, founder of the survival training company Spec Ops Inc, and popular survival expert on a wide range of television shows. Geared to the untrained civilian, Hawke provides essential and easy-to-apply information on shelter, water, fire, food, survival psychology, first aid, tools, navigation, signaling, and basic natural phenomena. Hawke’s Green Beret Survival Manual gives every reader the tools necessary to survive the worst imaginable circumstance and make it out alive. With more than 200 how-to illustrations and complete survival-training information, this is the most useful and user-friendly survival book available.

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About the Author

Mykel Hawke is a Green Beret and Captain in the U.S. Army Special Forces; director of Spec Ops Inc (an international outdoor-survival trainging company); and popular television personality/survival expert from the Discovery Channel, History Channel, MTV, Channel 5 in the UK, and more.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 640 pages
• Publisher: Running Press (June 9, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0762433582
• ISBN-13: 978-0762433582
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 6.1 x 1.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (43 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #164,503 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #72 in Books > Sports & Outdoors > Survival Skills

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37 of 40 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Book Every Person Should Have, June 25, 2009

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This review is from: Mykel Hawke's Green Beret Survival Manual: Essential Strategies For: Shelter and Water, Food and Fire, Tools and Medicine, Navigation and Signaling, Survival Psychology and Getting Out Alive! (Hardcover)

HAWKE'S GREEN BERET SURVIVAL MANUAL is clearly written by a seasoned expert, but it is 360 degrees different from those by the rest of the survival gurus out there. It is packed with expertise based on both real-world and military training, but geared for regular people, even those who have no outdoor experience. It is a big, comprehensive book that covers absolutely everything needed to survive virtually anything...how to do it with or without tools and provisions in any environment; also how to think like Macgyver and use whatever is at hand. And perhaps one of the greatest things about this book is that it is immensely readable as told in Hawke's bare-bones, earthy and often humorous style. This book will appeal to both men and women, hard-core outdoor enthusiasts and those who've never even been camping.

It's also extremely empowering as Hawke makes it clear that we all have the most important tool to survive if we learn how to channel it: the will to live and the vow to never quit. But he provides a lot of invaluable extras that you may never need--or that may someday save your life or, perhaps, many others.

27 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Got me going., June 26, 2009

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Dema "D the Viking" (NYC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mykel Hawke's Green Beret Survival Manual: Essential Strategies For: Shelter and Water, Food and Fire, Tools and Medicine, Navigation and Signaling, Survival Psychology and Getting Out Alive! (Hardcover)

This book is well written for the casual reader. The stories inserted here and there add a bit of humor. I looked over the myriad survival guides but found this one the most down to earth. Myke really speaks to the non-nature oriented folks. My experience with survival is limited to "car camping" and avoiding the bad neighborhoods in NYC. I don't smoke, but I think I will start carrying a lighter with me (get the book to know why). This book is a great fraking read. I would advise everyone to get this one, absorb what Myke says. Go to the local parks and practice what you can (legally.)

This book is not a technical manual, there are plenty of other books out there for that. Read it, practice it, and remember the acronyms, or make up your own as it doesn't matter how you get this knowledge in your head. If you decide to carry it with you and find yourself in a survival situation, you can use it as kindling if all else fails. Myke would be ok as long as you do all you can to survive.

I'm still reading through it, but I thought it deserved an early good review. IT'S THAT GOOD.

26 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome book!, June 5, 2009

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This review is from: Mykel Hawke's Green Beret Survival Manual: Essential Strategies For: Shelter and Water, Food and Fire, Tools and Medicine, Navigation and Signaling, Survival Psychology and Getting Out Alive! (Hardcover)

This is truly a brilliantly bizzare and unconventional book on survival. Hawke avoids a dull survival book read with his informal writing style, personal accounts and shockers like cannibalism and getting fluids from feces. The medical portion is fantastic. I was in the military with Hawke and he's the real deal. The book is very high quality.