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Summary: Comprehensive, "must have" book
Review: The "SAS Survival Handbook" is the most comprehensive survival handbook I have ever seen. Most books have some basic advice (the importance of the correct mental attitude, finding water and shelter, etc.), a handful of edible plants, and a couple of ways to start a fire. While this book covers all those areas, it also has sections on camp craft, determining directions, rescue signals, dealing with different climates and terrains, reading clouds for weather prediction, and many others. A good example of the thoroughness of the coverage would be the food section. It covers your energy needs and how they are met from various foods, testing unknown plants in desperate situations, plants to avoid, identification of plants, using animals for food, extensive and detailed trapping mechanisms, fishing, gutting and cleaning, and other advice. The number, types, and detail on the various traps are amazing. I've never seen so many different designs. It includes several that I have not seen anywhere else before. I would consider this the authoritative text on survival skills in the wild and give it the highest recommendation for anyone interested in survival techniques.
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Summary: a very informative survival book
Review: this book explains everything! after reading it there is nothing i don't know how to do. it covers shelter,food,clothing, tools,ropes and knots and tons of other stuff one need to know to survive.i reccomend it to anyone who likes the outdoors.
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Summary: Hmmm, So This is the SAS, Sorry All Wrong!
Review: This book is awful, to assume the British SAS operate and work in this manner is complete rubbish, and a further insult to my experience, to use the title "SAS" I find insulting. This book is junk.I would not recommend this book, absolute rubbish (trash), junk and totally inaccurate, so the SAS operate like this?? Hmmmm, I think not!! Mike
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Summary: Hmmm, So This is the SAS, Sorry All Wrong!
Review: This book is awful, to assume the British SAS operate and work in this manner is complete rubbish, and a further insult to my experience, to use the title "SAS" I find insulting. This book is junk. I would not recommend this book, absolute rubbish (trash), junk and totally inaccurate, so the SAS operate like this?? Hmmmm, I think not!! Mike
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Summary: A lot of everything in this book...
Review: This book is great! It tells you (and shows you)how to make shelters, catch food, tie knots, what different plants and animals are good, bad, deadly, and edible(through color pictures). The book goes into detail about basic wilderness first aid and it also talks about everything from ocean to desert survival and even to nuclear fallout! It has detailed pictures and descriptions on just about everything. Buy this one...you won't be sorry.
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Summary: great, but not perfect
Review: This book was the first survival book that I got. It didn't leave my side for weeks, until I had read it cover to cover. Now that I'm a little older, wiser, and more critical, I have noticed some faults. There are millions of feral cats in australia, there are about half a dozen different types of deer in australia and a tiger snake doesn't look like the illustration provided. That makes me wonder what else isn't correct, but I still think that its a great book though. Packed full of useful information, and fairly detailed instruction for a lot of things you can do in your own shed or varandah. It'll keep you entertained for ages.
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Summary: great, but not perfect
Review: This book was the first survival book that I got. It didn't leave my side for weeks, until I had read it cover to cover. Now that I'm a little older, wiser, and more critical, I have noticed some faults. There are millions of feral cats in australia, there are about half a dozen different types of deer in australia and a tiger snake doesn't look like the illustration provided. That makes me wonder what else isn't correct, but I still think that its a great book though. Packed full of useful information, and fairly detailed instruction for a lot of things you can do in your own shed or varandah. It'll keep you entertained for ages.
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Summary: Good Book, but there are better
Review: This is a good book, but the best by far is the U.S. Army Survival Manual.
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Summary: Learn How to Survive!
Review: This is an excellent book which teaches you how to survive if you are unfortunate enough to crash somewhere, get shipwrecked, be in the middle of a natural/terrorist disaster or are lost in the wilderness. Whilst I doubt you would be able to remember all this info if ever in trouble, if you take this book with you if going on multiple days hikes, or have it ready in the vehicle in case of road block by fire, someone getting bitten by a spider/snake or terrorist attack with a chemical agent the you'll be in better shape. This book is excellent to help you prepare for natural disasters but I think you would have to have it with you when deciding which plants are good to eat, animals poisonous and so on if lost in the outback or forest. The handy colour sketches are good but I doubt you'd remember them without the book. The SAS Survival Handbook is a great guide which would be helpful to everyone for future survival as well as being an interesting read.
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Summary: Complete and Understandable
Review: This is truly an important book for everyone to read at least once in their life. Given, most people will never end up in a situation where skills described in the SAS Survival Book will be required, but don't be cocky...learn the skills from this book and rest easy knowing that you have the background knowledge to make it in the outdoors without modern conveniences. This book covers it all -forest, desert, ocean, island, artic/arctic, mountain, tropical, temperate- you name it, this book will get through the hard times with no problem. This book HAS saved lives in the past, but many have also died in unexpected situations where the knowledge found in these pages could have saved them. I don't think anyone wants to end up classified in the latter. Get the SAS Survival Guide and read up. Someday you may look back at purchasing this book and realize it was the most important decision you ever made in your life!
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