Wilderness Survival: Staying Alive Until Help Arrives

by Suzanne Swedo

Book Overview

Adventurous readers won't want to leave for the wilderness without it. This updated edition contains valuable information on trip planning, staying found, what to do if you get lost, and survival... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1560446129
• ISBN13: 9781560446125
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Falcon Press Publishing
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 4.1" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

A Good Basic Introduction

This is a surprisingly useful book for being so small. Suzanne Swedo has over twenty years of experience as a teacher of outdoor survival skills. It shows.The author knows that most survival situations are resolved within 48 hours, so she concentrates on the issues that matter most during that time including signaling for help, staying adequately warm (fire, clothing, shelter), and how to keep yourself adequately hydrated. She also includes a useful list of equipment to take along and some good tips on what to do if you become lost.This book is small enough to take along with you out into the backcountry, but you might want to put it inside a plastic bag if you do so because (unlike some other survival manuals) it's not written on rain-resistant paper.This book does a good job of helping you to learn what you will need, how urgently you will need it, and how you could get it in an outdoor survival situation.