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| SAS Survival Handbook: How to Survive in the Wild, in Any Climate, on Land or at Sea | 
 enlarge | Author: John Lofty Wiseman
Publisher: Collins
Category: Book
List Price: $19.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  108 reviews
Sales Rank: 284
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 576
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.3 x 1.1
ISBN: 0060578793
Dewey Decimal Number: 613.69
EAN: 9780060578794
ASIN: 0060578793
Publication Date: March 2004
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| Customer Reviews:
 a very informative survival book January 8, 2001
22 out of 27 found this review helpful
this book explains everything! after reading it there is nothing i don't know how to do. it covers shelter,food,clothing, tools,ropes and knots and tons of other stuff one need to know to survive.i reccomend it to anyone who likes the outdoors.
 What about cabin avalanche? September 19, 2007
15 out of 36 found this review helpful
I found this book to thoroughly take me through the fundamentals of survival, however, I am always thinking of some very particular situations that I could find myself in that weren't addressed.
For instance, what about the "trapped in a cabin by avalance" that we're all fearful of? I play it over and over in my head. Most likely it would be 3 or 4 of us on a weekend ski trip. I've always felt that it would be best to go ahead and turn on the others very early on in the event of an avalance instead of waiting for starvation to decimate the group.
For one, each day trapped in that cabin means that everyone will be burning calories, making themselves thinner and thinner, not leaving much of a meal if natural course is left to do the dirty work of finishing them off. Not to mention, you might be too weak for a death match days later.
Also, turning on them early will almost assuredly be unexpected, since ditching ethical behavior at first opportunity is not the norm and especially with so much food still in the fridge. You're going to need that element of surprise, b/c let's face it, when you start helicoptering that timber axe over your head, the line will clearly be drawn in the sand and its 1 versus 3 at that point. You'll need to mow them all down very quickly. Don't worry that you aren't hungry yet, as there should be plenty of snow at the windows that can be used to keep the bodies from spoiling.
But I definitely liked the informative chapter on which leaves are ok to eat and which are poisonous.
A book everyone should have! December 17, 2002
14 out of 16 found this review helpful
This survival book is rivaled by few others. It covers basically everything you would need to know should you find yourself out in the wilds without help from civilization. The color illustrations are a great reference and the book also includes some useful information on coping with domestic survival situations. The main drawback to the book is that for Americans (like me) it is written in British style English using many vocabulary words which most folks who learned American English would have a hard time with. Of course, this is understandable given that the author is British and served with Britian's SAS. There are certain areas which could use some more thorough explaining, atlhough for its length, this book is pretty detailed. All in all, it is worth every penny, baht or pound you would spend on it and should be read by anybody who ventures outdoors. Not only is it informative, but it's also entertaining as the author does throw in some humor of his own. My hat is off to to the author! A great book!
 Good for some environments, but not all of them... October 31, 2003
14 out of 18 found this review helpful
It may be impossible to write a survival book that is accurate and authoritative on all environments and all areas of the world, and this is something to keep in mind when purchasing a general survival book like the SAS Survival Handbook. For the most part, it's quite good and gives excellent information on outdoors survival in most temperate climates. HOWEVER, one place the book does fall down is in areas such as desert survival. There is little specialized information for deserts here, which differ greatly even between each other in plant life, temperature range, and terrain. Deserts also require additional survival training on navigation, GPS, map & compass (please don't try the watch-hand method in remote desert!), water collection, heat illnesses, sun protection. Animal/plant hazard information is also very different. What there is in this book on desert survival is often too optimistic (i.e., desert survival still and transpiration bag) or too general and vague to be of much use (one example: the information on drinking the juice of the barrel cactus won't suffice: I'll just say here, one variety has drinkable sap, one will make you somewhat sick, one can kill you - better know how to identify them).
For those interested in desert survival I would definitely recommend other specialized books like The Ultimate Desert Handbook by Mark Johnson, which do a much, much better job at covering survival in the various deserts of the world.
Good but kinda stupid... August 11, 2006
14 out of 54 found this review helpful
I bought this book with an interest in outdoor survival and picking this one out at the book store. Started off with bood points and it's bad points. Good points were the pictures of everything from edible plants to animal tracks. Some of the bad stuff was going against common sense. Like saying you should have a survival kit on your person while in an airplane in case of a crash. 2 of the most important things for survival would be a blade and a source of fire such as a lighter or matches, neither of which you can take on board an airplane. And when talking about polar travel and survival in talks about polar bears. It says respect them not don't go near them. It also says don't eat their liver...now if I just went through something that put me in the situation to be around polar bears in the artic regions, I don't think I would have anything I would challenge a polar bear. And if I killed one, the first thing I would say would surely be "I can't wait to get that liver!!!"
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