Urban Survival Guide

by Outdoor Life

Do you know what to do if someone tries to hijack your car? Break into your home? Assault you with a weapon? You’d better. Luckily, the Urban Survival Manual from Outdoor Life magazine will equip you to prevail over any bad guy and bad situation. From gun safety to self-defense moves, from automotive know-how to home-fire prevention, this tough guide has you covered.

This hands-on guide to making it out of modern conflicts is jam-packed with crucial survival tips and tricks for today’s urban life.
Readers will learn how to discern is someone is armed, throw a proper punch, foil a pickpocket, escape kidnappers, repel
modern-day pirates, prevail in a raging riot, shoot a gun correctly, and improvise weapons. This how-to manual also
includes informative, surprising statistics on likely crimes and dangerous situations, as well as first-hand, real-life accounts of
perilous scenarios and what you can learn from them. Throughout the book, lively photographs pique interest and helpful
illustrations guide readers to urban survivalist master status.

Genres: Survival, Self Help, Reference, Nonfiction

96 pages, Paperback

First published October 23, 2012

Reviews

[Krycek]

Reviewed at Point Blank and at Booklikes.

[Andy Janes · Rating 2 out of 5]

Silly, takes itself a little too seriously. But probably some good advice in here.

[Alain Burrese · Rating 2 out of 5]

Some good tips, but some very bad ones as well. Such as using wasp spray or throwing a knife for self-defense.

[Josh.s · Rating 5 out of 5]

I had already read the ultimate survival guide and I got the urban survival guide not to long ago and figured if it was half as good it was worth taking a look at. It isn't a survival guide for people who want to survive in the wilderness its for the person who is caught off-guard with a problem that can more than likely pertain to other humans. It tells about how to survive situations such as car jacking's robbers getting hit by a car and left for dead or being bitten by a poisonous snake in an urban area. It gives various useful tips and tools that will help you survive these situations I personally didn't like this survival guide as much as the ultimate survival guide because it didn't have any wilderness survival techniques which are what I am more interested in but it was still worth while to read. And know that you would be better off if one of these situations were to occur at any point in time. So I would most likely recommend this book to a city slicker.