Complete Survival Manual: Expert Tips from Four World-Renowned Organizations, Survival Stories from National Geographic Explorers, and More

This survival guide is very good quality. It is useful and an interesting read.The cover is thick plastic- not plastic coated paper, but actual plastic so the cover is completely waterproof and rugged.The format of the book reads like a magazine, but all the information is useful, relevant, and presented in an interesting format. It is well organized by terrain. I don't need desert survival information where I live, but it still good knowledge to file away. It is easy for me to find forest information and learn how to survive a bear attack and what to do it it's a grizzly vs. if it's a black bear.It also includes short stories about people who have survived tough situations like poisonous snake bites, what they did, and how they made it.Even in a world with digital books, I will always have a spot on my bookshelf for this book on paper. Come tornado, blizzard, or who knows what I want this little book handy.

The Complete Survival Manual is a good book to have in your wilderness survival library. Others have complained that the edible plant pictures included are too small, but it's nothing a magnifying glass can't fix. Though I like this book a lot, I would not actually call it a "complete" survival manual, because it doesn't cover improvised wilderness weapons, and you never know when you might need to defend against some animal or other such as a black bear or a grizzly. The book should have at least told how to make a good long and sturdy lunging/thrusting spear. Other than the lack of instruction on how to make defensive weapons, it is still an excellent book. I especially like the chapter on Temperate Zone survival. The book is packed full of useful information and I'd recommend it to anyone interested in camping or survival, because sometimes a camping trip can turn into a survival situation.

If you plan a "away from the ordinary cruise" trip - this is it. Reading it prior to the trip and then carrying it with you is a good idea. The stories used as illustrations of good and bad decisions makes this interesting as well as informative.

Very comprehensive. very compact, very trustworthy. I have experience in this field, and I have learned stuff I did not know...The way it is written and organized makes it easy to understand and to refer to it if necessary. I would add some survival material in the urban field, it's hard for me to imaging myself fishing in Alaska.... The John "Lofty" Manual includes some of this and it's very interesting. That would be my only suggestion, other than that, it's a great book and everyone should read it. everyone should understand what it takes to survive. and if you are clever enough, you can take desert situation, and translate them to your daily life. That's because the book is made with a lot of common sense, and as I said, very well organized.

An easy reading, this manual sets apart from the survival books/manuals crowd because separates the different survival techniques in separate chapters depending on the environment (tropical jungle in one chapter, desert in another), so you need only to read the chapter of the weather/environment you pretend to go. Other books are arranged in a way that "obtaining water" is a whole chapter of its own, other for setting a camp, obtaining food or first aid, so you'll need to read the entire book to get the survival knowledge no matter the environtment you're going. I like this book.