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How to survive anything anywhere Storm approaching a fire out of water lost whatever situation you find yourself in, Len McDougall has probably been there himself and can get you out of trouble. He reveals his way of living and teaches readers how to have the same confidence in any scenario. In this comprehensive, fully-illustrated guide, McDougall reveals how to make water safe for drinking, build a fire in any conditions, find and build shelter, use basic medical skills, and more. McDougall has field-tested everything from kayaks, backpacks, and boots to cameras, tents, and water filters, and because of his research and experience, everyone can feel more safe. Specifications:- number of pages: 400- size: 7.5" x 9.25".
- Sales Rank: #1661987 in Books
- Brand: SnugPak
- Published on: 2010-12-09
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.25" h x 7.60" w x 7.50" l, 2.47 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 320 pages
Features
- First hand experience Guide to survival
- Teaches confidence and self-reliance in any scenario
- Comprehensive and fully illustrated Guide
About the Author
Len McDougall is a field guide and wildlife tracker in Michigan’s North Woods, where he teaches survival classes and tests outdoors products. His other books include The Complete Tracker, The Encyclopedia of Tracks and Scats, The Field & Stream Wilderness Survival Handbook, and Practical Outdoor Survival.�
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8 of 10 people found the following review helpful.
The Self-Reliance Manifesto
By Sam Adams
The title is an odd one. I don't believe this is a manifesto, and I don't see that it goes deep enough to teach the reader "how to survive anything anywhere"; but it is one place to start reading on the basics of survival, in both urban and wilderness environments. The chapter titles lay out the fundamental topics: fire, water, food, shelter, medicine, security and defense, and coping with disasters. Appendices add: edible plants, poisonous plants, knots, and tracking. The publisher tells us that McDougall didn't write the sections on plants, and the section on knots is extracted from the book Everyday Knots by Geoffrey Budworth.
This is a first look and an elementary look at survival. McDougall's approach is practical and assumes no prior experience or study. If you're just beginning to think about these topics, this book will orient you to the subject, but it will not take you far. As a whole, the book is colorful with pictures and focused on the very basics. It isn't going to overwhelm or intimidate beginners, but it might not satisfy them as being enough, either, even as a start.
McDougall usually relies on his language to convey all details and doesn't supplement his descriptions with helpful photos or line drawings. In some cases this hinders comprehension. When he describes, in text spanning three and a half pages, the bow and drill method of fire-starting, the reader has to imagine the visuals (there are pictures on those pages but they're instructionally irrelevant). In his discussions of the pencil snare and the debris shelter he does provide some helpful photos. The book reads, though, as if it were written to be sufficient as mere text, without any pictures at all.
McDougall doesn't avoid being explicit about the purpose of a snare. He tells you straight out that it's to strangle or break the neck of the snared animal, either by entrapping the animal so its struggles to escape do the killing or by the rapid upward spring of the triggered snare to snap the neck or even remove the head. He explains briefly how to dress game after the trapping or hunt, but he again relies on his language to convey all details and doesn't supplement his description with helpful photos or line drawings. You probably won't deem his description sufficient.
The chapter on food is one of the more useful in the book, but it still only covers the basics. He explains how to fish, apparently for those who never have. This includes hand-catching, which most readers probably haven't done. When he gets to firearms, he starts to write a bit like a magazine writer, talking about specifics of ammunition and models of air gun, and including brief accounts of personal experiences - details some readers will consider off-topic. There's about 20 pages devoted to firearms and hunting with them, including how to sight-in a scope.
This brings up the point that most of this book isn't about primitive survival skills. The section on bows and arrows includes mention of the modern compound bow and crossbow. The chapter on shelter mentions modern tents as well as the primitive debris shelter. The chapter on security and defense talks about modern knives and how to sharpen them and doesn't discuss flint-knapping a stone for a sharp cutting edge. The section on orienteering says almost nothing about navigating without a compass. Although he explains (without helpful photos) how to construct and use a bow and drill to start a fire, McDougall says its impractical and that modern methods using butane or those that mimic, with better materials, primitive flint-and-steel are more viable and sure.
McDougall's discussion on security and defense is a little strange. Early in the chapter he's got a three-paragraph section on striking weapons where he mentions staves, walking sticks, the lance and spear, and then seems to advocate the numchuks (ko-budo-nunchaku) as a viable self-defense weapon. He goes so far as to say "the beauty of the weapon is that it can be used effectively by someone with no training at all." (146) I've had several types of numchuks, from soft-covered trainers, to light-weight six-sided wooden ones joined by thick cording, to solid hardwood battle-chuks joined with a stout chain. Someone with "no training at all" could severely whack himself in the head and face. It takes practice to return this implement safely to a ready position after a strike and miss.
McDougall goes on to discuss knives superficially in the context of self-defense (later he explains how to sharpen them) but never mentions screwdrivers, heavy wrenches, hammers, cast iron skillets, maglight flashlights, the billy club, the extendable baton, the axe handle, the baseball bat, or the handgun, shotgun, or carbine in self-defense. When your life is at stake and you can't retreat, you fight mean and dirty and with whatever brutality you need to win. Rules of sport fighting don't apply. McDougall doesn't make that clear. He likes knives. They're a survival tool, so he's got them in the book. But his discussion of their use in self-defense is only a recognition that they can be used there. He doesn't go into when, how, or what the hand-to-hand combat that would ensue would entail.
A section of this chapter on security and defense got me thinking about a gap in my preparations. It's on the possible need to clear a roadway of a heavy, fallen tree and the tools and methods needed to do it. It's an example of how this book is not a typical survival book. I haven't seen this topic discussed before. Another example of this being a different sort of survival book is in the chapter on water, where he explains how to dig a well.
In general: The book is 304 pages and the appendices begin on page 198. There are a lot of pictures, and they're usually not demonstrating something discussed in the text, but are rather pictures illustrating something in the topic, such as a picture of a squirrel, a roll of duct tape, or two bicyclists looking at a map. The photos of edible and poisonous plants (111 edible, 17 poisonous) are in color but they're not large. The section on knots contains instructions and pictures on 9 knots, one per page: reef (square) knot, round turn and two half hitches, strangle knot, figure eight knot, common bowline, sheet bend, clove hitch, timber and killick hitches. The section on tracking does not show photos of animal paws or tracks, but does include generalized line drawings of paw prints. The short chapter on medicine is exactly that. It is not on first-aid. It includes an account of McDougall's personal experience with extracting, while alone in the wild, a molar tooth with pliers, needle, and knife.
This is not a book for readers seeking intermediate or advanced instruction and techniques. It is definitely an elementary book and if you buy it thinking it's not, you'll be disappointed.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Good common sense approach.
By Ralph
The book was pretty good, the last chapters deal with plants and that is always helpful. My biggest issue is that it was a little too basic and did not present the unique problems faced with desert survival. As I live next to a barren wasteland that is the Great Basin, I would have liked to see this explored more.
The author presents ways on getting water (very interesting BTW) in areas that he is accustomed to, but none of the ways he presents are that viable in a desert. Same with shelter.
Now if this book was not titled "how to survive anything, anywhere", I'd have only marked him down one star, as it is, he gets two strikes.
I would recommend but only along with some other titles as well.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
When you don't know what to do in a emergency
By ramrod3
Don't be fooled by the stupid looking cover...that is a mistake in my opinion. The wealth of information for anyone that has no idea what to do in a emergency situation to save you or others lives. Buy and put in your emergency things bag. Michigan
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