The Extreme Survival Almanac is written specifically for the vast majority of regular people who may someday find themselves thrust into an emergency survival situation far from assistance - everyday travelers who have no specialized skill or gear to help them reach safety. It provides decision-making guidelines to walk the reader step by step from the first signs of trouble all the way through to the rescue. It includes thousands of useful tips and directions that can be understood and followed by panicked, possibly injured laymen stranded in the woods, in their vehicle or at sea, plus resource lists for scrounging usable survival equipment from a car, plane or boat as well as the natural environment.
The Extreme Survival Almanac is written specifically for regular people who may be suddenly forced to survive in the wilderness without assistance, with no planning and with no specialized training or equipment. It provides clear decision-making guidelines to walk you step-by-step from the first signs of trouble all the way through to the rescue. It outlines specific courses of action for every type of survival scenario imaginable, including thousands of useful tips, directions and suggestions that can be understood and followed by the panicked, possibly injured layman stranded in the woods, in a vehicle or at sea.
Just some of the things you and your family will learn include whether you should wait for rescue, and the right and wrong ways to do so; how to make your own way to safety on land or sea, over all types of terrain and under all sorts of weather conditions; how to provide emergency medical treatment deep in the backcountry or aboard a life raft, with no medical training whatsoever; how to deal with children or frightened adults under desperate conditions; how to scrounge usable survival equipment from a car, plane or boat as well as the natural environment; plus tons of essential tricks such as finding the coolest place to lie low in a desert, the best way to lead a group of people across featureless terrain, an easy way to determine how much day-light is left using only your hand, an effective method to deal with supply poaching in a group of survivors and much, much more.