Do you take a tent to the jungle? Does sand really get everywhere? And how do you even survive in the Arctic? This light-hearted but informative guide offers all the information needed for taking visits to the world’s most remote and inhospitable locations. Based off first-hand experiences from veteran adventurers, this is not a list of hypothetical requirements but rather a collection of essential facts, skills, and equipment listings any world traveler must have. Aimed at every budding trekker, this is essential advice on where to go and what to take to ensure that you come back in one piece.

Serious Survival: How to Poo in the Arctic and Other Essential Tips

Corwin, Marshall

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Harpercollins Pub, Ltd.

The ultimate guide to survival, this edition now includes the most essential urban survival tips for today, supplementing the fully updated original, bestselling handbook. 
The original and best survival guide for any situation in every climate is back. Now with added techniques for handling Urban dangers, the SAS Survival Handbook is the complete companion for adventurers everywhere. From making camp and finding food in the wild to security and self-defence in the streets, be prepared in any city, land or sea. SAS legend John ‘Lofty’ Wiseman’s unrivalled multi-million copy bestseller will teach you: 
Preparation – Understanding and assembling latest, most resilient, kit. 
Navigation – Skills, technologies and techniques to get you through unfamiliar terrain. 
Food and Health – Finding resources in your environment, feeding yourself, healing yourself and avoiding disease. 
Urban Safety and Security – Recognising dangerous situations, defending yourself and saving others. 
Disaster Survival – Dealing with unstable environmental conditions: what to do in the face of flash flooding or fast-spreading fire.

The Ultimate Guide to Surviving Anywhere

Sports & Outdoors

Wiseman, John Lofty

Survival Skills

William Collins

Offers guidelines on basic lifesaving skills from CPR to wound dressing, surviving harsh climates and terrains, handling emergenies on the road or in the home, and preparing for personal attacks and disasters.

Complete Idiot's Guide to Surviving Anything (The Complete Idiot's Guide)

Science & Math

Sauer, Patrick

Zimmerman, Michael

Earth Sciences

Alpha

A Wealth of Information on Being Prepared for Any Contingency or Catastrophe This is the definitive survival guide and essential resource for all travelers, campers, hikers, and outdoor adventurers. Already a worldwide million-copy bestseller, The Ultimate Survival Guide covers everything from basic first aid to disaster preparedness, from setting up camp to making it through a hurricane -- an absolute must-have volume for anyone who has ever placed him or herself at the mercy of Mother Nature.
<ul>
<li>What to pack, carry, and wear in hostile environments</li>
<li>First aid and rescue</li>
<li>Finding food, water, shelter, and making fire</li>
<li>Dealing with wild animals, snake bites, and fierce climatic hazards</li>
<li>Surviving flood, avalanche, tornado, and other violent natural catastrophes</li>
<li>Fully illustrated and easy to use</li>
</ul>

The Ultimate Survival Guide (HarperEssentials)

Self-Help

Happiness

HarperTorch

In Staying Safe, Juval Aviv, a counterterrorism expert and international security consultant, outlines the essential tools for becoming personally responsible for the security and safety of yourself and your loved ones. You will learn how to safeguard your home and office, protect your identity, and travel without fear. Most important, you'll find that Aviv's recommendations and warnings are practical and easy to follow. Juval Aviv neither overstates nor minimizes today's threats, whether they are from criminals or terrorists; instead he sets out to inform and provide real advice for minimizing risks. Staying Safe is clear, comprehensive, and full of instructive and vital tips that cover: <ul>
<li>Flying with confidence </li>
<li>Traveling to a foreign country </li>
<li>Identifying a potential terrorist threat </li>
<li>Basic safety precautions </li>
<li>Survival and escape strategies </li>
<li>Securing your business </li>
<li>Keeping your identity confidential </li>
<li>Making transactions on the Internet </li>
<li>And much more </li>
</ul>

Staying Safe: The Complete Guide to Protecting Yourself, Your Family, and Your Business

Aviv, Juval

William Morrow Paperbacks

This is the definitive guide for all campers, hikers, and outdoor adventurers, including:
<ul>
<li>First aid and wilderness medicine</li>
<li>Building shelter and making fire</li>
<li>Hunting and trapping</li>
<li>Pocket survival kit</li>
<li>Disaster preparedness</li>
</ul>

SAS Survival Guide Handbook (Collins Gem)

Hiking & Camping

CollinsRef

From the creator of the hit show Survivorman, the classic guide to surviving in the wild
From the sun-scorched sands of the Kalahari to the snake-infested jungles of the Amazon, Les Stroud has made a life of surviving in the harshest—and most remote—regions on Earth.
Now, the creator, producer, and host of the hit television program Survivorman transfers his decades of knowledge and experience to the pages of Survive!, a practical guide that gives everyday readers a no-nonsense look at the real world of survival.
Stroud offers readers the essential skills and tactics necessary to endure in any corner of the globe, along with a wealth of insider information born of his own experiences in the outdoors and unavailable in any other book. Readers will learn:
<ul>
<li>How to make a survival shelter and why a lean-to is largely a waste of time.</li>
<li>Why survival kits are important, and why you should make your own.</li>
<li>Where to find water and why drinking contaminated water is sometimes warranted.</li>
<li>How to locate and trap small animals and why the notion of tracking and hunting large game is largely a pipe dream.</li>
</ul>
Whether seasoned in the outdoor arts or new to adventuring, all readers will learn something from Survive!. Stroud's many colorful anecdotes and cut-to-the-chase philosophy not only make for an entertaining read, but also enhance anyone's ability to focus on the main goal when everything else has gone wrong—survival.

Survive!: Essential Skills and Tactics to Get You Out of Anywhere - Alive

Les Stroud

Michael Vlessides

HARPER/COLLINS

Born to Explore is filled with skills, projects, and essential knowledge for the budding adventurer
Explorer extraordinaire Richard Wiese's more than one hundred excellent projects show how to have fun with science and nature, how to not always take the most walked path, and how to learn to "read" the natural world. Discovery does not occur just in the Amazon or deep in the ocean. It happens everywhere around us:
Navigate by the stars, Tell time without a watch, Start a fire without a match, Make an igloo, Build your own canoe, And be prepared for any challenge.

Born to Explore: How to Be a Backyard Adventurer

History

Wiese, Richard

Americas

SAS Survival Guide 2E is the revised and updated edition of the world’s preeminent survival guide, covering everything from basic first aid and campcraft to strategies for coping with any type of disaster. Long considered the supreme handbook for outdoor skills and preparedness, this new edition—expanded by renowned survival expert John “Lofty” Wiseman to include information on all of the latest navigation and survival technology—is a must-have for all campers, hikers, boaters, and adventurers.

SAS Survival Guide 2E (Collins Gem): For any climate, for any situation

Mariner Books

Ultimate Fighter champ Forrest Griffin and Erich Krauss, who previously brought you the New York Times bestseller Got Fight, now offer a hilarious and very timely guide to surviving the coming apocalypse. Be Ready When the Sh*t Goes Down provides everything an aspiring Mad Max needs to know about post-apocalyptic living. Since it’s coming soon anyway, we might as well all Be Ready When the Sh*t Goes Down.

Be Ready When the Sh*t Goes Down: A Survival Guide to the Apocalypse

Krauss, Erich

Griffin, Forrest

Biographies & Memoirs

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