The Ultimate Survival Guide

Get ready, get set, SURVIVE! This manual is what you need if you want to protect your family, save yourself, and prevail over any danger. The Ultimate Survival Manual is your comprehensive guide to surviving everything. You're lost in the woods without food or water. Confronted by an armed assailant in the dead of night. Forced to outrun a deadly tornado. Don't worry - The Ultimate Survival Manual has you covered. Rich Johnson and the experts at Outdoor Life are the people that have been there and survived that; with the Ultimate Survival Manual they bring you all the information you need to do the same. From navigating with a compass to fending off a cougar to prevailing over pirates, learn to prevail in the forests, deserts, and oceans like an expert outdoorsman. Whether it's a towering tsunami or a blazing wildfire, bad things happen every day. Know what to do when the going gets tough. Arm yourself with the self-defense moves, weapons tips, and home-protection tactics, plus crucial strategies for handling bad guys and bad situations at home and abroad. Packed with hands-on tips, this go-to survival guide will help you prevail over the worst that the world has to offer. Rich Johnson was worked as a demolition sergeant in the US Army Special Forces, a Coast Guard Auxiliary instructor, an EMT, a firefighter, and a policeman. In his off hours, he's excelled as an advanced SCUBA diver, paratrooper, sailor, and skier, and survived in the desert wilderness for a year with his wife and small children--part of which involved living in a cave and eating bugs. Rich Johnson and the editors of Outdoor Life have compiled a lifetime's worth of experience in extreme conditions and survival techniques in this easy to read and cataloged manual. This book is packed with 333 skills that will get you out alive!