The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Extreme Edition

By Joshua Piven and David Borgenicht

Book Overview

How could it get any worse? For the latest book in the phenomenally successful Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook series, the authors have pulled out all the stops, harkening back to the core appeal that made the first book a runaway bestseller. Here are all new scenarios for living life on the very edge. Imperiled readers will learn immediate, hands-on strategies for surviving an elephant stampede, a 16-car pile-up, a mine collapse, and a nuclear attack. Discover how to take a bullet, control a runaway hot air balloon, break a gorilla's grip, endure a Turkish prison, and free a limb from a beartrap. Whether stranded on an iceberg, being chased by a pack of wolves, spinning out on a motorcycle, or being buried alive, The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Extreme Edition has all the right stuff for those times when everything goes wrong.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811845389
• ISBN13: 9780811845380
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Chronicle Books
• Length: 173 Pages
• Weight: 0.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.1" x 6.9"
• Age Range: 13 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary

Customer Reviews

Funny - Unusual

Reminds me of the "Far Side" type of humor. It's very funny but at the same time the advice given makes sense. The situations are possible but very highly unlikely, like "What to do if all four of your tires blow out at the same time." I sent this to a friend who just turned 50 (to make the next 50 safer) and she loved it. The Complete Far Side

Very entertaining

This is a very entertaining book. I'm not sure how many of the scenarios would ever come in handy but it makes for great conversations.

No Luck If You Happen to Be in Prison

I had this book sent to a guy I've been seeing. He's in prison. He asked me to send him other books on spiritual enlightenment and how to unleash the brain's potential, but I decided on my own that what he could really use at a time like this was a copy of "The Worse-Case Scenario Survival Handbok: Extreme Edition." The instruction on how to gut a squirrel will probably not be of much use to him since there aren't any trees nearby, but the tip on what to do if choking on lint seemed pretty useful. He wrote back to me saying, "but I look and re-check for what to do when I'm stuck behind concrete and barbed wire and my [girl] is outside, any ideas?" I was hoping he'd make it back to me sooner than as scheduled. That is the only reason I gave this book 4 instead of 5 stars. Maybe they should come up with a Prison edition.

Worth it if only to laugh at some of the scenarios

The book is extremely entertaining and it might save your life, too. It covers scenarios James Bond would aspire to. "How to endure a Turkish prison" "How to survive an elephant stampede" "How to survive a nuclear attack" "How to take a bullet" "How to control a runaway hot air balloon" "How to break a gorilla's grip" Plus other scenarios that are more practical and more likely for one to encounter. "How to free a limb from a beartrap" "How to survive on an iceberg" "How to survivean attack by a pack of wolves" "How to recover a motorcycle spinning out of control" "How to survive a 16-car pile-up" "How to survive a mine collapse" Bottom line, there is some practical advice here for emergencies, but it is the entertainment, laugh-out-loud factor that makes it worth it.

Hilarious! Don't leave home without it!

Ever imagined yourself in an elephant stampede? In a runaway baloon? Buried alive? Gripped by a gorilla? Stuck in a bear trap? Ever dreamed of being a hero(in) rescuing everybody in a helicopter that the pilots left? If you have this book, then you have solutions to all these situations: You will be able to control the baloon, control the helicopter and land it, survive from a pack of volves, deal with a quadruple blowout, how to survive a nuclear fallout etc. Remember the scenes from the movies that our hero(in) has to survive some kind of "tricky" situation (his/her food poisoned let's say)? And remember yourself thinking about what would you do if you were him? That's right: This book is absolutely for you! Most probably you will never use the tactics you have read in this book. But believe me, it's a really interesting, fascinating, funny book that you'll finish in less than an hour. The price tag is nice also. It's amazing, affordable, fascinating, a good time-passer. What would you want more?