'You'll be a veritable Indiana Jones after reading this' - "Independent Traveller". Get back to basics with this practical guide to mastering survival skills from the man who's done it all, Hugh McManners. Be ready for the great outdoors: find out the basics from what equipment to pack to how to stay warm and dry in the elements, to where you'll find water and food. Learn to survive in adverse conditions: easy-to-follow techniques from testing plants for poison to making your own compass to splinting a broken arm and surviving in a blizzard. All you need to answer the call of the wild with confidence. With updated text and illustrations, this is a practical guide to mastering outdoor skills and staying alive in challenging environments, the "Outdoor Survival Guide" enables everyone - expert and novice alike - to answer the call of the wild with confidence.
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Hugh McManners served in the British Army for 16 years. His combat experience includes working with the SBS and SAS. He's contributed to a wide range of publications, including The Times, The Observer and The Daily Telegraph. He is also the editor of Command magazine. He's written many books, including The Commando Survival Guide. Hugh's TV work includes Channel 4's Dispatches and Cutting Edge. He now lives in North Downs, near Canterbury.
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Born in Oxford, raised in Australia, trained by the British Army, educated at Oxford University, after a 17 year military career, now writing books and living in central London.
I really liked Australia, and at the age of 13, it was a nightmare coming back to grey, dismal UK, where handicapped by my Ozzie accent, I had to learn Latin from scratch in a class that was already reading Horace (or something that was a great mystery to me).
But after then attending one of the UK's first comprehensive schools - as a guinea pig in the great 'Leicestershire Plan', there was no choice but to join the Army.
The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst was a severe culture shock. But after a couple of very happy years in a commando unit, three years at Oxford University reading geography and doing boxing (note the verbs) were both antidote and stimulus to further military adventures.
The apogee of my military career was the Falklands War. I then declined gently into Staff College Camberley, MoD staff appointments and a rather jolly final few years commanding an artillery gun battery in Northern Ireland, Thorney Island, and beside a lake with ducks in northern Germany.
Since then, I've produced television documentaries, spent five interesting years ad the Sunday Time's defence correspondent, whilst writing the sort of books Amazon so efficiently sells under my name on this site.
I live in central London, and have two astonishingly musical sons - one now in the Army on the brink of becoming a cavalry officer.
More information, blogs and various guides to the Army, survival and other related subjects maybe found at www.hughmcmanners.com
I really liked Australia, and at the age of 13, it was a nightmare coming back to grey, dismal UK, where handicapped by my Ozzie accent, I had to learn Latin from scratch in a class that was already reading Horace (or something that was a great mystery to me).
But after then attending one of the UK's first comprehensive schools - as a guinea pig in the great 'Leicestershire Plan', there was no choice but to join the Army.
The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst was a severe culture shock. But after a couple of very happy years in a commando unit, three years at Oxford University reading geography and doing boxing (note the verbs) were both antidote and stimulus to further military adventures.
The apogee of my military career was the Falklands War. I then declined gently into Staff College Camberley, MoD staff appointments and a rather jolly final few years commanding an artillery gun battery in Northern Ireland, Thorney Island, and beside a lake with ducks in northern Germany.
Since then, I've produced television documentaries, spent five interesting years ad the Sunday Time's defence correspondent, whilst writing the sort of books Amazon so efficiently sells under my name on this site.
I live in central London, and have two astonishingly musical sons - one now in the Army on the brink of becoming a cavalry officer.
More information, blogs and various guides to the Army, survival and other related subjects maybe found at www.hughmcmanners.com
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