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The Ultimate Survival Guide (Harperessentials)

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In difficult times, we all need to know how to survive on our own because we just never know. This book is pocket sized, so it can litterally go with you everywhere without taking up much space.

This book contains lots of valuable information on how to survive with literally nothing. It discusses how to make shelter, find food, water, and any other necessity of life. If this book has only one short coming is that some of its photo examples of plants and the like are black and white drawings. I would of loved to have seen them as a full color photograph to aid in identification. I'm sure this helps keep the price down, but color photographs would have been nice.

But, don't let that stop you from purchasing this book. Any shortcommings that this book has, you can go on line and do a little more research to find more information. For the price, the information it contains, it is a must for every home.

We are told to prepare for 3 days of emergency supplies. If another disaster happens like what Katrina did to New Orleans, and affects an entire major city, what are you gonna do after your supplies run out after 3 days...you would know if you had this book.

Excellent book that is well organized. Subjects are grouped together. The book covers air, land and sea. From foods to eat, techniques for survival to poisonous plants. Medical advice and directions on how to prioritize for your survival. Great resource.

This is the mass paperback small size of the SAS guide. I read a review of this book on a survival website recommending the smaller version so you could fit it nicely in a Bug out bag. Well this is a very light weight book. Lots of helpful information in the guide, there are so many of these types of books out there. I like it for its size and ease of read, I can go to this in a pack easier than I can a lot of the big books that will stay at home.

Also pick up an old Boy Scout handbook on here to toss in along with it.

Many diagrams and step-by-step instructions for what to do in different situations. This book is probably more useful for the more adventurous type folks, frequent outdoor campers and hikers. About 1/10 of the information in the book can be used for everyday emergencies, like how to carry someone safely over your shoulder. The rest of the book covers things like how to make a raft, making ropes for capturing small animals, and making arrows are fun to read but only useful if you purposely put yourself in that kind of environment. Basically this book targets the die-hards of jungle exploration, mountain climbing, and cross-country camping. Might be useful if you have this book on the plane when it crashes, that's assuming that you're close to land and able to swim to it, because most pilots will do their best to land in water.

The Ultimate Survival Guide is a useful, inexpensive, compact cargo size pocket book that contains a great deal of useful survival information.

This is a handy guide to carry if you are camping, hiking, hunting, or fishing. This is also a handy guide for someone in the military.

I would assume that many of the tips and instructions probably won't be needed for the average reader, but it is good to know info just in case.

I recommend purchasing this item.

I really had bought this book for my brother, however, everyone in my family ended up reading it. We could not believe the amount of information provided. Hopefully, we will never have to use it, but it is good to know just in case.

Ultimately, this wasn't the reference guide its' advertised as. While it's fun to read and think about, most people who want to learn more about wilderness survival would probably be better served by other resources.

haven't read book as of yet for have many to read as of now, but was pleased to receive as quickly as I did.

It's always a great gift when it works for the buyer as well as the recipient, great product/shipping, everything perfect.

There is a lot of data in the book but little a considerable amount is dedicated to the tropics; I would never recommend it!