The Encyclopedia of Survival Techniques

by Alexander Stilwell

Whether you are marooned in the wilderness or the unlucky target of road rage, The Encyclopedia of Survival Techniques helps you get out of any precarious situation, anywhere in the world. This fully-illustrated and updated guide teaches you the vital tips to staying alive, providing step-by-step guidance for:
 
Finding your way back to civilization
Constructing shelters
Surviving fires
Preserving food
Deflecting hand and knife attacks
Handling a carjacking
Performing first aid
Making tools
 

The Encyclopedia of Survival Techniques is the answer for frightening situations and worst-case scenarios - no one should leave home without it.

Genres: Self Help, Survival, Nonfiction

192 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2000

Reviews

[Brenden Noblitt · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is called "Survival Techniques" by Alexander Stilwell. "Survival Techniques" is a non-fiction book that teaches you certain survival techniques that you will need to use in order to survive in the wild. This book has many techniques that you can use from surviving in hot and cold climates to creating weapons and fishing rods from wood. This book is a twist in Alexander Stilwell's work since most of his work is based off of military criteria.
This book has many sections that can help you in this book. It starts you out by teaching you to build a survival kit and what you will need in it. It then takes you on how to survive in hot, cold, tropical, and mountainous regions and what it takes to survive in them. After that it takes you into a few sections on how to make certain items if you do not have the equipment. In the final section of the book it teaches you self defense skills that you can use in an urban scenario.
My overall impression of this book was very high. I very much enjoyed this book because of all the information this book can give you. This book was very factual and will definitely read it again. The book was also very interesting considering how much it pulled me in. What I learned from this book is that survival is not just making sure you stay alive with what equipment you have. This book taught me that survival is mental just as much survival as is physical survival.
In conclusion this book is a great book that can teach you a lot. It will teach you that survival is not just physical, but mental and emotional too. I feel like this book would be a high school level book because of all the long, complicated words in the book. My advice is get through the first page of this book and the rest is very interesting. I overall very much enjoyed this book.

[Björn · Rating 2 out of 5]

3-4 valuable pages of crystal-clear survival psychology, that read like ancient wisdom literature for living and mindfulness, followed by hundreds of pages of too-shallow, too-broad and sometimes outright wrong technical information.

[Daniel Gale · Rating 4 out of 5]

More detailed than others. Recommend for novices

[Panos Machairas · Rating 3 out of 5]

Κλασικό βιβλίο που σου πασάρουν στο στρατό με διάφορες πατέντες και οδηγίες επιβίωσης . Δεν χάνεις και τπτ στο να ξέρεις μερικά πράματα πάνω σ αυτο

[Alexander Stamelos · Rating 5 out of 5]

Εξαιρετικό ! Πολύ καλή και προσεγμένη δουλειά. Πολύ διαφωτιστικά και τα σκίτσα.

[Stacy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Useful book to add to a preparedness kit. There are 5 sections that focus on specific areas - desert, polar regions, sea, tropics and mountains - but the rest of the book focuses on tips, tricks and advice on how to survive. It includes everything from plants safe to eat to self defense against a gun. I plan to add a copy to my personal library.

[Jamison Johnson · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a great book for those who want to learn about surviving in different environments. At least its a good place to start.