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The survival book that I will be reviewing today is The Survival Handbook: Essential Skills for Outdoor Adventure, Written by Colin Towell. The book is a manual style survival guide aimed towards educating the reader in outdoor adventure survival. The book is split into 7 large educational sections including: Preparation, On the Trail, Camp Craft, Taking Shelter, Food and Water, In an Emergency, and First Aid. This a complete guide aimed at helping even the most inexperienced adventurer through many situations. The book contains thousands of helpful tip, tricks and general knowledge to help those who are interested in taking their first outdoor adventure. Through detailed step-by-step instructions and diagrams, the book walks you through specific tasks for almost any situation that you may find yourself in, as well as giving the reader the basic understand of task and the mechanisms to understand from the bottom up. The Autor is Colin Towell, a British Army Special Air Service (SAS) Veteran with more than 30 years of experience, he was also the British Navy’s Chief survival instructor, which means that he is more than qualified to be the author of a book like this.
My personal experience with the book was very good. I was extremely pleased how much was covered for a book that is not oversized and would easily fit into a backpack if you ever needed to check it for reference. I believe that this book would be vital to bring on an adventure if I were to embark on one. To show how in-depth this book is, I thought we would talk about the sections relating to building, lighting, and maintaining a fire. For this section alone there are twelve pages dedicated to making a fire. The book educates you first on the components that are required to get a fire started. It explains that heat, oxygen and fuel are the basic components and that there are many different ways to go about getting it started. Then continues to include choosing the area of ground that you will build your fire on, and explains you never want to light a fire directly on the ground. It continues to talk about tinder and different ways to acquire. Fuel is the next part of the instructions; this is the actual wood that is used to keep the fire going and the best types of wood to choose for the job. Next, there is a eight by five box diagram that outlines the types of tires you can make including; how to build it, where to use it, why to use that type of fire, and the uses of the fire. The next section outlines the different ways you can make sparks to light a fire with another diagram with the required gear, how to do it, and comments to help you along the way.
As a visual learner I feel as though the diagrams in this book truly give great step by step instructions throughout the book on every skill that is presented within the book. For that reason, I would definitely recommend this book for other that are looking to get educated on outdoor survival or adventure. I also think that this book is just a good one to have in the case of an emergency and would recommend it to anyone that wants to be prepared in case of an emergency or natural disaster. It is a book designed to teach people who have no knowledge on how to survive in the wilderness so it could be a major help to anyone that may eventually find themselves without water, food, or shelter. For instance, it would be great for someone to have if a hurricane came and there was no electricity or water, the book could help them find food, shelter and clean water until things return to normal.
I was a massive fan of this book, as stated before, the book really takes challenging tasks and break them down step by step to allow the reader to fully understand how to accomplish the task. The book is easy to read and has picture diagrams to help you understand what needs to be done, as well as extensive instructions that in my opinion go above and beyond what may be required. My favorite part of the book was the way the information was presented to the reader. This is because it first gives you the basic understanding of how any task operates, then it tells you what you will need to complete that task, and then finally tells you how to complete the task. I think that this is very important if you are attempting to complete a task that you have never done before. By first explaining the basic mechanisms of the task the reader can understand how to complete it from a basic standpoint, which helps translate it into an actual skill. I feel like many guides simply just present the information on how to do the task instead of explaining why and how you have to do it that way to complete the task. My least favorite part of the book was the appendix which included Wild Foods and Natural Dangers. This section is rather small and does not include pictures of what the food and dangers look like. They do have a description on how to identify them, but if they had added a picture to the appendix for all of the items it would have be much easier to identify them. If I could add anything to the book, I would include a section on dangerous animals and how to avoid them. I feel like this is a large part of outdoor adventure/survival and should have been included in the book. Many peoples greatest fear around outdoor adventure is the wildlife and a section like this could really help to educate those that are reluctant to go on an adventure but may be too frightened by the wildlife.
Overall, I was a huge fan of the book, I think that it is a great place to start if you are looking to find literature that will help you to learn about what it takes to go on an outdoor adventure, or even just to have in your house in case of an emergency. I do not think the book is fully suitable for adventurers that plan to go on adventures that go on for weeks, for that I would suggest something with more advanced skills, but for a beginner or someone who is looking for a survival manual in case of emergency it would be a great choice. I was very pleased with the book overall and will definitely be keeping it on my shelf just in case I ever run into a situation where I may be without electricity or water, there are a bunch of great skills that can be learned from this book.
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Very informative
This book is very useful for a person who a newbie. I have looked at about 5 different survival books and this one was my favorite so far. Great descriptions and pictures for the visual learner. And categories range from all areas of survival. Each category explains in detail but typically only 2 pages per category as shown in my pictures.
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