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The Boy's Book of Outdoor Survival: 101 Courageous Skills for Exploring the Dangerous Wild
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128 pages, Paperback
First published October 1, 2008
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Chris McNab
373 books56 followersDr Chris McNab has written over a hundred books in a career spanning over two decades. He is a historian with a specialisation in military history.
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April 30, 2025
Because I am lazy, I decided to find a review that says what I think. This review belongs to Chris K. Ferrell. Reviewed May 25, 2010. I read this in 2025. I like to read books that the younger me might have enjoyed and maybe go back in time. I think the younger me would have liked this book.
This book is written by the same author as the Special Forces Survival Guide; a book with approximately 500 survival skills for all types of situations. This book takes the 101 most critical, highest probability of being used and lays them out in an instructional, illustrative, one-skill-per-page format that is well organized in a logical format.
The verbiage is limited to instructions except for real-life anecdotes which are kept as sidebars. The pages are bigger than the Special Forces Survival Guide, but the illustrations are also in color. This makes this book a better teaching guide than one I'd want to carry in a backpack on an extended hike. But it doesn't dumb anything down either and, beyond the introduction, there is nothing in this book that wouldn't appeal to girls as well as boys or, for that matter, adults looking for a introductory-type survival manual distilled down to the most important and simplest skills.
This book is written by the same author as the Special Forces Survival Guide; a book with approximately 500 survival skills for all types of situations. This book takes the 101 most critical, highest probability of being used and lays them out in an instructional, illustrative, one-skill-per-page format that is well organized in a logical format.
The verbiage is limited to instructions except for real-life anecdotes which are kept as sidebars. The pages are bigger than the Special Forces Survival Guide, but the illustrations are also in color. This makes this book a better teaching guide than one I'd want to carry in a backpack on an extended hike. But it doesn't dumb anything down either and, beyond the introduction, there is nothing in this book that wouldn't appeal to girls as well as boys or, for that matter, adults looking for a introductory-type survival manual distilled down to the most important and simplest skills.
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