U.S. ARMED FORCES SURVIVAL GUIDE - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0312331223 ISBN 13 : 9780312331221

Editeur : Griffin, 2004

Synopsis

Get the same survival training that the U.S. military uses for its troops.

The U.S. Armed Forces Survival Guide is the only source hikers, campers, explorers or families focused on emergency preparedness will ever need.

The U.S. Armed Forces Survial Guide covers everything a modern outdoorsperson needs to know to make it in tough terrain and tense situations, from the psychology of survial and overcoming fear to building a shelter and making it through a natural disaster, such as a hurricane or earthquake. Every kind of environment--from tropical to desert, aquatic to arctic--is covered.

Topics include:
--how to orienteer with or without a map and a compass
--how to cross quicksand, bogs and quagmires
--how to signal for help
--how to set a fracture and tend a burn
--how to forecast weather
--how to trap, fish and set snares
--how to indentify poisonous plants, insects and animals
--how to survive unusual conditions, such as plane crashes and nuclear attacks

The U.S. Armed Forces Survival Guide is the most comprehensive and thoroughly tested survival manual ever published.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

John Boswell is a book packager, writer and business expert who has used his verbal powers of persuasion to create and sell over 200 titles since 1972, many of them bestsellers such as French for Cats (with Henry Beard), The First Family Paper Doll and Cut-Out Book and the "365 Ways to Cook" series. He lives in New York City.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Griffin
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0312331223
• ISBN 13: 9780312331221
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 352
• Éditeur: BOSWELL JOHN
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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