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Books > Sport & Leisure > Sports & outdoor recreation > Active outdoor pursuits > Outdoor survival skills
Vertical, overhanging and upside-down climbing on indoor walls
studded with bulbous handholds and footholds is the fastest-rising
adventure sport. This book is a complete instruction guide to
technique, safety, and getting the most out of your indoor climbing
experience.
No one wants to think about needing first aid while out in the
wilderness. Hoping it does not happen will not help you when it
does. Wilderness First Aid covers simple techniques to treat common
injuries and sickness in a wilderness situation. This waterproof
flexible folding guide includes tips and techniques to help you be
more comfortable while awaiting rescue or keep you mobile to effect
self-rescue if required. Be smart, be safe, be skilled. Co-authored
by noted survival expert and woodsman Dave Canterbury, this is one
of a 10-part series on survival skills.
The ability to trap food could be a critical factor in keeping you
alive in a survival situation. Knowing the types of species that
can be found in the area, having a good understanding of their
behaviors, knowing which traps will work on which animals and
knowing how to build them are the keys to success. This waterproof
guide covers trapping basics including targeting prey areas,
setting sign posts, proper baiting, and how to create effective
traps using basic knots and simple triggers. Developed in
collaboration with noted survival expert and master woodsman Dave
Canterbury, this is one of a 10-part series on survival skills.
Made in the USA.
__________ If you live on planet Earth, you're probably scared
about the future. Terrorism, complicated international relations,
global warming, killer viruses and a raft of other issues make it
hard not to be. Watching the news you have to wonder: is it safe to
go out there or not? In The Day It Finally Happens, Mike Pearl
games out many of the 'could it really happen?' scenarios we've all
speculated about, assigning a probability rating, and taking us
through how it would unfold. He explores what would likely occur in
dozens of possible scenarios - the final failure of antibiotics,
the loss of the world's marine life, the abolition of the British
monarchy, and even the arrival of aliens - and reports back from
the future, providing a clear picture on how the world would look,
feel, and even smell in each of these instances. Hilarious,
enlightening, and terrifying, this book makes science accessible
and is a unique form of existential therapy, offering practical
answers to some of our most worrisome questions. Thankfully, the
odds of humanity pulling through look pretty good. __________ For
fans of such bestsellers as What If?,The Worst Case Scenario
Survival Handbook and The Uninhabitable Earth, as well as Steven
Pinker and Malcolm Gladwell, this is a book about future events
that we don't really understand and getting to know them in close
detail. Entertaining speculation featuring both authoritative
research and a bit of mischief: a look at how humanity is likely to
weather such happenings as the day nuclear war occurs, the day the
global internet goes down, the day we run out of effective
antibiotics, and the day immortality is achieved.
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