Learn important survival skills from thirteen captivating stories of people stranded and fighting for their lives against harsh, unmerciful conditions.

A unique combination of fictional scenarios, true accounts, and instructive sidebars, Getting Out Alive reveals the three vital ways to cheat death when all seems lost: avoid panic, know your survival skills, and maintain a relentless determination to make it out alive. Teaching by example, the characters in these adventures use real-life survival tactics—including navigating, building shelters, finding water, and signaling for help.

Featuring tales of being surrounded by a forest fire, lost in the Amazon, marooned on an island, caught in an icy blizzard, and many more

Keywords

survival; emergency preparedness; disaster preparedness; guides; reference; emergency; disaster; self-help; safety; security; outdoor skills; survival skills; survivalist; survivalism; survival stories; hiking; amazon basin; hurricane; category 4 hurricane; gunfight; gunfire; in the line of fire; castaway; marooned on an island; forest fire; snowbound; blizzard; adrift; mauled by a bear; bear attack; animal attack; plane crash; power outage

Bisacs

SEL049010 SELF-HELP / Safety & Security / Survival & Emergency Preparedness
SPO030000 SPORTS & RECREATION / Outdoor Skills

ISBN

9781612430904

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