[The Unofficial Hunger Games Wilderness Survival Guide] [Author: Stewart, Creek] [May, 2013]

by Creek Stewart

Infused with themes and references from The Hunger Games Trilogy, The Unofficial Hunger Games Survival Strategy Guide is a survival field manual like no other. This book will contain practical and easy-to-understand real-life survival instructions--from building shelter to finding and collecting water to making fire to hunting and gathering food to field first aid--while capitalizing on the Hunger Games storyline. Specific survival skills mentioned and used by Katniss and her fellow citizens of Panem are brought to life through the use of expert instruction and step-by-step photography. In addition, the book lists many other survival skills that one would need to survive living in District 12, a trip to the Hunger Games or an invasion by the Capitol. Readers will feel like they've entered the Training Center and are receiving instruction from Haymitch.

Genres: Nonfiction

Paperback

First published May 3, 2013

About the author

Creek Stewart is a survival instructor, author, and host of SOS: How to Survive on The Weather Channel.

Creek's survival knowledge comes from experience. His life-long study of outdoor living and survival skills is backed by thousands of man-hours in the field. Creek is a frequent guest survival expert in the media and has been featured on/in the Today show, Inside Edition, Fox & Friends, Men's Fitness magazine, Backpacker magazine, Outdoor Life magazine, WGN-TV, WISH-TV 8, The Weather Channel, Living Ready magazine, American Survival Guide, and countless radio and online events. He has been a contributing author to the hugely popular men's interest blog ArtofManliness.com and his survival writings have been featured on thousands of websites including Huffington Post, MSN News, Lifehacker, and The Daily Beast.

In 2015, Creek was presented with the NESA Outstanding Eagle Scout Award (NOESA) by the Boy Scouts of America. The NOESA is a prestigious recognition granted to Eagle Scouts who have demonstrated outstanding achievement at the local, state, or regional level.

Reviews

[FW · Rating 4 out of 5]

With frequent references to the materials Katniss and the other characters in The Hunger Games use to survive, this book provides the reader with an overview of survival techniques using the resources at hand to build shelters, find and purify water, forage for food, navigate, perform first aid, etc.

I really like this book because I expect it will grab the attention of readers who would not otherwise pick up an outdoors book. Each section is quick to read, full of references to the trilogy of books with which the author is clearly familiar, and contains photos for illustration. While not exhaustive, the book goes into enough detail to spur interest in exploring the survival techniques further.

The author stresses that while The Hunger Games aren’t real, occurrences like getting lost while hiking or car breakdowns on rural roads – outside cell phone coverage areas – are. A little knowledge can go a long way in preventing hypothermia and other adverse outcomes.

[Aleksandar · Rating 5 out of 5]

How would, indeed, a normal, non-superpowered person survive in a hostile environment where both nature and other humans are set against them? Indeed, if anything, reading this book makes the brave protagonist of our favorite series look even more impressive, if that's at all possible. I had some hazy notion about shelter, maybe rubbing sticks together would start a fire (spoiler: nope), but I never would have thought that a body of actual knowledge so thorough exists on the subject matter of survival. In hindsight, it should have been obvious just from watching MacGyver build a wood cabin with a paperclip that somebody at some point in time knew how to survive in the woods and more; and that you might be able to learn the fundamentals of this knowledge, which is probably not taught in your district. Jokes aside, the book handles its subject matter seriously, and is based on sound research, and hence packs some serious advice that sounds like it could work on the actual Arena, such as making a Texan firehole so that the smoke from your fire would be harder to detect. So if you have nightmares about being chosen as a Tribute, now you know what to do. Maybe somebody should write "How to survive at Hogwarts for the Muggle-born?"

[Olivia · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book was full of information and I learned so, so much from it! It was intriguing yet just so informational, I loved it a lot and I really enjoyed reading it. I really like how it included scenes or descriptions of what happened in the actually hunger games trilogy and then picked out the survival skills from that particular scene. I've never seen a book like this but it was amazing to read.!

[Jen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Full of great info and Hunger Games tie-ins, a “fun” survival guide.

Went out for my usual lunchtime walk in the park - thought about and saw many things from this book. Edible plants, “littles,” sycamore trees, impromptu shelters.

[Andy Crane · Rating 3 out of 5]

Contains some good information but fails to make meaningful connections to the alleged, unofficial source material

[Brad Pepping · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was a really well laid out and fun way to look at a survival situation. A good read

[Dave · Rating 2 out of 5]

Adds nothing new if you've read his other survival books - may have rated better if I hadn't already read the his previous publications

[Kay · Rating 4 out of 5]

This rather shameless 'tie-in' to the Hunger Games means well in addressing the practical survival skills needed to survive disasters/in the wild. Recognizing that using a bow and arrow takes lots of practice, it focuses on how to construct shelters, get safe drinking water, find wild edibles, etc. Its target audience is obviously young people, but this book offers great advice for anyone interested in this topic. There are lots of photos to illustrate. There are also handy tips highlighted as being 'a gift from the sponsor' following the Hunger Games format. I always find Creek Stewart informative rather it's the written word or his show, Fat Guys in the Woods. He has a real practical passion for his topic of survival which is delivered with humor and practical guidance. There were a number of web links provided to supplement the book. I really wanted the edible plants one but the link repeatedly took me to Gun Digest. This may be a fault of the publisher since it's their web address, but I found it disappointing especially for a book marketed to young people. (Gun Digest may just be about hunting for all I know, but I'm not into guns and did not want to register for their site to see what was on there.)

[Benjamin · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is great because there are good survival skills. The author doesn’t relate to Susan Collins “The Hunger Games” much early on, but he does later in the book. The fire skills are very helpful, and so are Creek Stewart’s shelter instructions. The hunger games survival guide was fun and quick to read I relay enjoyed it.

[Sam · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book was very informative and is making me want to be prepared and make a survival kit of my own and to practice the skills in here. Creek is obviously very passionate about his work and it shows in this book. I love that it all connects with my favorite series too!

[Kerry · Rating 5 out of 5]

Bought for my daughter as she likes learning about wilderness survival. She started watching tv shows about it when she was little & she enjoys learning about survival. I've read through most of this with her & I find it informative & easy to follow.