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Tim MacWelch

The New York Times bestselling author of Prepare for Anything shares 500+ tricks for surviving any emergency with everyday items.

Fortune favors the prepared—and knowing how to innovate, improvise, and make do with the hundreds of survival hacks covered in this guide will prepare you for just about anything. Detailed advice and step-by-step illustrations show you how to handle natural disasters, wilderness mishaps, and total catastrophes with whatever you have to hand, from duct tape to plastic bags to acorns.

Survival expert Tim MacWelch covers situations ranging from the common to the once in a lifetime (you hope!). In this book, you’ll learn how to use junk food to start a campfire, harvest drinkable water from morning dew, use your belt to sharpen a knife, suture a wound with dental floss, use a bra as a respirator, and much, much more. If you can find it in an emergency, Tim can almost certainly help you turn it into a survival tool!

Weldon Owen

Outdoor Life

Ultimate Survival Hacks

The Editors of Outdoor Life

The ultimate guide to living in the wild from finding shelter and food to knowing the many uses for antlers, mud, animal fat and more.
 
 Imagine being dropped in the woods with little more than a knife, your wits, and the shirt on your back. You’d need more than luck to survive. You’d need the knowledge and skills covered in Ultimate Bushcraft Survival Manual.
 
 In this book, survival expert Tim MacWelch examines how primitive cultures around the world and throughout history have made their own shelter, weapons, tools, and more. He also shares clever, MacGuyver-style ideas for repurposing anything you might find in your pockets or pack. Whether your goal is to test yourself against nature, be prepared for any catastrophe, or learn more about traditional survival techniques, this is the book for you.

The Ultimate Bushcraft Survival Manual: 272 Wilderness Skills

The bestselling team at Outdoor Life presents this essential guide to surviving in the wilderness for survivalists, preppers, and hobbyists alike.

With 110+ years behind them, the experts at Outdoor Life magazine have compiled the information-packed The Ultimate Wilderness Survival Handbook. Whether you’re planning a three-day backcountry hike, a day trip, or a full-on Grizzly Adams experience this compact handbook has the essential information you need to stay safe.

This book covers making shelter, finding food and water, dealing with predators, signaling to rescuers, and making it out alive and well . . . probably even with all your limbs.

Chapter One: Skills and Tools

- How to Pack for a Wilderness Adventure

- Build a Fire Anywhere

- Forage for Food

- Create a Basic Shelter

- Get Rescued

- Handle Medical Emergencies in the Woods

- Tie Basic Knots

Chapter Two: Lost in the Woods

- Survive Getting lost in the Wilderness

- Handle Animal Attacks

- Navigate Bogs and Marshes

- Purify Water

- Stay Sane and Healthy

- Trap Wild Animals

- Fish with Almost No Equipment

Chapter Three: Extreme Conditions

- Survive a Wildfire

- Ford a Raging River

- Navigate the Arctic

- Survive Falling through Ice

- Punch a Polar Bear

- Find Water in the Desert

- Survive Being Lost at Sea

The Ultimate Wilderness Survival Handbook: 172 Ultimate Tips & Tricks

The survival expert and New York Times bestselling author of Prepare for Anything offers a comprehensive, practical guide to self-reliant living.
 
 Whether you want to “go green” or live the life of a modern-day pioneer, survival expert Tim MacWelch teaches you the knowledge and skills you need in order to unplug successfully. Written from a hands-on perspective, this guide covers everything from raising chickens in your urban backyard to going totally off the grid in your solar-powered log cabin.
 
 A guide for the modern homesteader, How to Survive off the Grid contains essential information on energy efficiency, finding and pumping your own water, being your own doctor, keeping chickens, goats, bees, and other critters, and much more.

How to Survive Off the Grid: From Backyard Homesteads to Bunkers (and Everything in Between)

How to survive everything from hurricanes and wildfires to earthquakes and tsunamis, from the editors of Outdoor Life.
 
 From basic precautions like knowing how to use a fire extinguisher to emergencies like riding out an avalanche, this comprehensive collection of practical advice prepares you to protect yourself, your home, and your family in a wide variety of situations. Included are sections on:
 
The Essential: Get ready with the right emergency kit and first aid supplies. Be ready for earthquakes, floods, blizzards, and other natural disasters wherever you may be. Learn simple tips and techniques for treating common injuries, assessing danger, and getting to safety fast.
 
The Extreme: When a tornado is bearing down on your car, the floodwaters have cut off your home, or you’re camping and the lightning strikes seem to be getting closer—what do you do? This book tells you, in simple steps with handy illustrations.
 
The Emergency: Mudslides, avalanche, falling boulders often start without warning, leaving little time to prepare—or even think. Be prepared for the worst so you can react quickly.
 
 From the premier publication that was founded nearly 125 years ago, this is a valuable resource for those who want to be ready for anything nature throws at them.

The Natural Disaster Survival Handbook: 151 Survival Tactics & Tips

Aram von Benedikt

This comprehensive survival guide from the experts at Outdoor Life features essential tips and information for any outdoor adventure.
 
 Whether you’re planning to hike the Pacific Crest Trail or camping off the beaten path in your nearby state park, being out in the wild comes with inherent risks. From the everyday disruptions to the extreme circumstances, The Total Backcountry Survival Manual has you covered.
 
 Prepare and Plan
 From fishing weekends to the hike of a lifetime, preparation is important. Here you’ll find tips on essential gear, smart packing, map reading and much more.
 
 Trail Threats
 Learn how to get by a damaged section of the trail, deal with mountain lions and coyotes, prevent injury, and more.
 
 Camp and Eat Responsibly
 From spotting a good camping site off the trail to controlling a campfire and getting sustenance– find all the practical skills you need to live on the trail.
 
 How to Make it out Alive
 Know the essential Dos, Don’ts, and Musts of how to get out when everything goes wrong.
 
 Find these top tips and more in The Total Backcountry Survival Manual, all brought to you by the professionals who’ve done it all—and lived to write about it.

The Ultimate Backcountry Survival Manual: 294 Tips for Roughing It

Joseph Pred

From break-ins to basement flooding to broken bones, this guide has everything you need to be prepared for any emergency that comes your way.

Who’s better suited to write a book about handling emergencies than an Emergency and Risk Management Consultant and the CEO of Mutual Aid Response Services (MARS)? Joseph Pred is the go-to-guy for assessing and handling emergencies. When you combine his knowledge with that of the experts at Outdoor Life magazine, what do you get? An epic book filled with lifesaving skills. This book also covers what to do before the first responders arrive…or if they never do.

Basic Tools & Skills: Everything you need to know to assess and start handling an emergency. From stocking a first aid kit and treating burns, cuts and broken bones, to protecting yourself when using pepper spray and performing CPR.

Home and Family Safety: Protect your house and keep you and your family safe. Learn how to deal with a lost child, handle house fires, public transit scares, car accidents, and help a sick or hurt pet.

Community Safety: All the ways to help your neighbors and keep your community safe. From what to do if you see a house being broken into and dealing with school tragedies, to coping with a major natural disaster and handling a toxic spill—and everything in between.

When disaster strikes you want to be ready, and you can be with the Emergency Survival Manual.

The Emergency Survival Manual: 294 Life-Saving Skills

Dennis Mersereau

Fast facts and practical advice to keep you prepared, whether you’re dealing with mud or flood, drought or derecho.
 
 This valuable, comprehensive guide is full of life-saving information for virtually any extreme weather event—blizzard, hurricane, firestorm, tornado, heatwave, and beyond. Weather reporter Dennis Mersereau, working with the editors of Outdoor Life magazine, debunks common myths, provides hands-on survival tips (some of them literally hands-on—as in, don’t lose your fingers to frostbite), and shares some fascinating historical facts and world records. Learn how to: • Read a weather map
 • Survive in a snowbound car
 • Stay oriented in a whiteout
 • Make waterproof matches
 • Avoid lightning hot spots
 • Rescue someone caught in a flood
 • Know your monsoons
 • Survive a sandstorm
 • Make peace with the polar vortex
 • Drought-proof your home and much more
 
 “Don’t mess with the Mersereau. He will find your weather fables and he will crush them…We need more Dennises. In fact, the National Weather Service itself should be run by Dennis, with each local office headed by a Dennis-like weather blogger tasked with explaining the relevant weather news of the day, and entertaining us when the weather is boring.”—Slate

The Extreme Weather Survival Manual: 214 Tips for Surviving Nature's Worst

This New York Times bestselling guide covers essential skills and strategies for surviving any catastrophe—from natural disasters to zombies attacks.

How to Survive Anything covers situations ranging from the unexpected to the unthinkable, deftly balancing real-life survival know-how with wild scenarios that most likely won’t ever happen. But, on the other hand, who would you rather have in your bunker? The guy who read up on killer robots or the one who didn’t?

 The editors of Outdoor Life magazine cover everything from disaster preparedness to subsistence hunting and fishing, to which guns to use against the undead. After reading the expert advice in this manual, you’ll be prepared for whatever this world throws at you.

How to Survive Anything: From Animal Attacks to the End of the World (and Everything in Between)

This comprehensive guide is full of the strategies, skills, and gear you need to survive any catastrophe—from natural disasters to the collapse of society.

 All over America, families are transforming spare rooms into long-term storage pantries, planting survival gardens, unplugging from the grid, converting their homes to alternative sources of energy, taking self-defense courses, and stocking up on everything from canned food to ammunition. So what are these people preparing for?

 In our increasingly unstable world, there are a whole host of catastrophic event that could throw civilization into turmoil. Outdoor Life: Prepare for Anything takes you through these potential threats and explains how to be prepared for them. From having the right equipment to considering your actions in the wake of a disaster, or acquiring the skills needed for self-sufficiency, this guide is full of hands-on hints, easy-to-use checklists, and engaging first-person stories.

 This volume includes vital information on:

• Necessary skills in a time of a natural disaster, economic collapse, or societal restructuring.

• What should be in your house, pantry, basement, bunker, and go-bag.
 • How to handle yourself and your family in the wake of disaster, from creating a plan to leading your neighborhood watch.

Hunting & Gathering Survival Manual: 221 Primitive & Wilderness Survival Skills

John B. Snow

A showcase for basic firearm skills and the most current shooting equipment and methods in use today from the bestselling team at Outdoor Life.

Whatever you’re shooting, whether it’s a tricked-out MSR, a tight 1911, or a custom skeet gun, the experts at Outdoor Life have the know-how you need to take your skills to the next level. Covers handguns, rifles, shotguns, and ARs.

RANGE SKILLS & HUNTING: This book is filled with tips and tricks that build solid shooting fundamentals, letting you shoot faster and more accurately. Detailed drills for advanced gun handling and manipulation complete an expert course in range accuracy.

PERSONAL PROTECTION: Fortune favors the prepared, whether you’re protecting your family while out on the streets or guarding your home. The sensible, real-world tips on concealed carry and personal protection in this book could save your life.

COMPETITION: Insider tips from top competitors guide you through hands-on pistol, revolver, precision rifle, AR, and action shotgun drills and techniques you can apply anywhere you shoot.

The Ultimate Shooting Skills Manual: 212 Essential Range and Field Skills

The New York Times bestselling author and survival expert covers hundreds of skills and strategies to help you be ready when disaster strikes.

If you’re concerned that the world is becoming increasingly unstable, you are far from alone. From natural disasters to terrorism, pandemics, and economic collapse, there are a whole host of catastrophic events to be concerned about. And preparing for the worst is going mainstream.

Outdoor Life: Prepare for Anything will take you through a wide range of potential threats and how you can prepare for them, from having the right gear on hand to knowing what to do in the wake of a disaster. This is the book for the growing prepper movement, with hands-on hints, easy-to-use checklists, and engaging first-person stories to break down the crucial do’s and don’ts, educate yourself on various threats, and help to ensure that you ride out whatever Mother Nature, the government, foreign powers, or modern society can throw at you.

Includes vital information on:

• How to prep for a natural disaster, economic collapse, or societal restructuring.

• What should be stocked in your house, pantry, basement, bunker, and go-bag.

• How to handle yourself and your family in the wake of disaster, from creating a plan to leading your neighborhood watch.

Prepare for Anything Survival Manual: 338 Essential Skills

Rich Johnson

The Special Forces expert presents the ultimate guide for surviving anything with skills, info and scenarios from natural disasters to armed insurrection.

 In an increasingly unstable world, anticipation and preparation are crucial to your survival chances. Whether you find yourself facing a sudden quarantine, an armed assailant, or a deadly tornado, The Ultimate Survival Guide has you covered. This comprehensive guide is packed with practical tips, crucial skills, devastating scenarios, and real-life survival stories that could help save you and your family in case of an emergency.

 A frequent contributor to Outdoor Life magazine, Richard Johnson is a former special forces soldier, EMT, volunteer firefighter, and US Coast Guard instructor. Now he shares his considerable knowledge and experience on the subject of survival whether it’s out in the wild, during a disaster, or in the midst of an urban crisis.

 With this guide, you’ll learn how to avoid airborne diseases, clean chemical spills and treat poisoning victims. And you’ll have detailed instructions on things like making your own bow and arrow, harvesting Aspirin from tree bark, generating your own power, and starting a car with a screwdriver.

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