Description: Planning to survive, from making a pocket survival kit to knowing how to obtain water and other basic needs. Dealing with accidents and escape procedures, and adapting to terrain-polar regions, mountains, seashores, islands, deserts and the tropics. What you need to keep going - edible plants, animals and insects - plus animal tracks and techniques for hunting, traping, fishing and handling the kill. Skills for building shelter, making and using fire, preparing survival meals, using tools and ropes, lashings and knots. Not only reading but how to make maps and compasses, plus other ways of direction finding and also predicting the weather. Knowing when to break camp, planning your route, takling the terrain and making sledges and rafts. First aid priorities, natural medicine and treatment procedures for tropical and other diseases, cold-climate hazards and dangerous or poisonous creatures. What to do if you have to abandon ship - survival afloat and how to make a landfall. Different signals and ways of signaling, plus various rescue techniques. What to do if you have to cope with drought, flood or fire, hurricanes or earthquakes, chemical accidents or nuclear incidents.

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