"Ed Stafford -- adventurer extraordinaire and Guinness World Record holder for walking the length of the Amazon River, likes a challenge. Casting about for an adventure that would top the extraordinary feat he recounts in Walking the Amazon, Stafford decides to maroon himself on an uninhabited island in the South Pacific. His mission: to survive for sixty days equipped with nothing -- no food, water, or even clothing -- except the video cameras he...

"When something tragic happens, it's difficult to be prepared even with basic things such as enough food for a few days, basic electricity supply, or temporary shelter from rain and wind, but you need to be prepared for what you're going to face. But what if something really terrible happens and people have to hide in their bunkers for weeks and months? This book will tell you everything and anything you need to know about indoor and outdoor survival,...

This state-of-the-art manual is now completely updated and revised with new sections on transportation (such as carjacking or road-rage incidents), defending against terrorists (how to react to a suspicious package or behavior, for example), and information about numerous self-defense techniques. This survival guide now covers the world-any terrain, all climates-with hundreds of line drawings showing details on making tools and rafts, preserving food,...

Describes the crafts and skills of wilderness living and survival, featuring information on mountain man tools and materials, and providing illustrated instructions for making and/or using traps and trappings, clothing, weapons, hats, scrimshaw, pouches, scabbards, quillwork, tipis, eating utensils, and other items.

A fully illustrated guide to wilderness living and survival. Includes step-by-step detailed instructions for how to make your own clothing, shelter, and equipment; how to make and use hunting tools, utensils, wild game traps, tents, deer-horn jewelry, and much more. --Publisher