Quite simply, this book is the ultimate reference for doing whatever you can in a survival situation to keep your body's core at a temperature of 98.6 degrees which author Cody Lundin suggests is the most basic strategy of any survival situation. If you've ever been caught out in the rain, even in the middle of summer, and been thoroughly drenched or even worse stuck under a blasting sun with little or no shelter, you know how easy it is to start gaining or losing core body temperature. Now put yourself miles from civilization and you can imagine how that could very quickly become a dangerous situation. Cody wants to get you safely home from there.
This book extensively demonstrates techniques for creating and, more importantly, using a survival kit. It also contains information on important subjects like finding water, heat, and shelter and ultimately getting rescued. Inside these pages Cody effectively and humorously goes step by step on the art of staying alive if you ever find yourself in a survival situation. Cody is an accomplished primitive survivalist and actually lives out what he teaches. This stuff is as natural to him as it is for most of us to go to the grocery store.
One of the great things about this book is Cody's no nonsense style. His options are stark, stay alive or die. Fans of "Dual Survival" recognize the seriousness Cody displays when faced with this type of challenge, but he also speaks over and over about how important it is to retain an optimistic attitude. I think that sort of summarizes what makes this book different from many other survival books. Cody wants to get inside your head and not only teach you the ABCs but also tweak your attitude toward your situation. Cody's technique is to outline the principles of the tools you would find in his survival kit and then support that information with many details and variations of products.
The fantastic and abundant photographs included in this book could be separated out in their own book. For that reason I agree with others who have said this book should be owned in a hard copy form. I actually own both the Kindle version and the hard copy, so I'm ready for anything.
Having read and reviewed many books of this kind, I highly recommended this as one of, if not the, top books on the subject of outdoor survival. This book is really great fun to just read.
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The absolute first, and possibly only, book on wilderness survival you need to read.
First off, in a genre overran with "experts", Cody Lundin is one of the few that have the history in the field to back up what he teaches. His advice is solid and his teaching style is excellent. This book is about what/how to prepare for that camping trip/hunt/hike that goes wrong and how to handle that average 72 hours to "keep your ass alive" until your found. It's important to keep that in mind, and that this is NOT a wilderness living skills book. There is some overlap in the two fields, but they are fundamentally not the same. If you want to be the next "Jeremiah Johnson", this may not be the book for you, although you should still read it, but if you want to know how to go into the wilderness with good advice on how/what to carry for that "bad day", then this is the perfect book for you.
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Jonathan P Bealey
Fantastic book.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 6, 2022Pascal M
L'art de sauver ses fesses (traduction libre !)
Reviewed in France on March 23, 2018Alberta Bushcrafter
One of the best survival guides around
Reviewed in Canada on July 3, 2015Utente amazon
98,6 degres: the art... (37 gradi centigradi)
Reviewed in Italy on March 10, 2015
Enrique MATEO SANCHO
Con el traductor (vía WIFI) del KINDLE PAPERWHITE se lee rapidísimo.
Reviewed in Spain on August 29, 2014