SAS Survival Guide Handbook

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Collins Gem

By John Wiseman

Collins, 2006, Paperback

Customer Rating: 61 reviews Recommend

Product Description

This is the definitive guide for all campers, hikers, and outdoor adventurers, including:

First aid and wilderness medicine
Building shelter and making fire
Hunting and trapping
Pocket survival kit
Disaster preparedness

Product Details

Title: SAS Survival Guide Handbook (Collins Gem)
Sales Rank: 1281 in Books
Author: John Wiseman
Publisher: Collins, Min edition, 2006-04-01, Paperback, 384 pages, ISBN: 0060849827
Package Dimensions: 4.5 x 3.2 x 0.9 inches, 0.5 pounds

Customer Reviews

Good as a pocket survival guide.: This book is great. It tells you basic needs for survival like how to find water, make shelter and purify water. It is just a great book. If you frequently travel to different places like jungles or forests and you want to know how to survive in the wild if you get lost, this is a good book to get. More reviews

Compact, comprehensive, interesting and useful.: I bring this with me every time I go camping. It is very compact, fairly light, and packed with tons of useful info. Much of the info is practical knowledge even if you're not in a survival situation. It is written clearly and well illustrated, and is fun to read. The book is also water resistant and very durable. I have noticed a lot of typos in the book, but I still… More reviews

very good: seems complete, the color pics of plants & stuff are great, the only slight problem is he uses some idioms that are from england but considering were he is from, i have read & tried parts of this book, seem to work well More reviews

put it in yer pocket: put it in your pocket.it will fit.not comfortably ,but it will fit.better yet,put it in your fanny pack.wrapped in a ziploc bag.this is not the'be all,end all'of survival books.none is.in fact,i am going to make a recomendation that the publisher will love,though you may not.buy the larger text of this book.read it.over and over.along with your other books on the subject.you need a small… More reviews

Wow! This book is tiny!: The product description clearly states the size of the product but I hadn't really paid attention to it. I just knew that this edition of the book is a smaller version, handy to keep in your backpack.
Backpack? Back pocket is more like it. It's about the size of a deck of cards. While that means there's no excuse not to take it with you,… More reviews