The Survival Handbook

by Colin Towell

Survive anything life throws at you with the ultimate visual guide to camping, wilderness, and outdoor survival skills.Written by Colin Towell, an ex-SAS Combat Survival Instructor, The Survival Handbook is bursting with survival tips, manual skills, camping essentials, and advice on how to survive whatever the great outdoors throws at you.Combining proven, no-nonsense military survival skills with ingenious bushcraft techniques, specially commissioned illustrations and accessible step-by-step instructions show you how to survive in the wild. Learn how to read a map, how to light a fire, and how to build a raft, and everything you need to know about wild foods and natural dangers. Revel in inspirational real-life survival stories and be prepared for every outdoor situation. From survival basics, such as finding water and catching fish, to extreme situations including being adrift at sea or lost in the jungle, The Survival Handbook will steer you through life's toughest adventures in the world's harshest climates.

Genres: Survival, Nonfiction

319 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 13, 2020

Reviews

[Sydney · Rating 4 out of 5]

"The risks of getting it wrong far outweigh the benefits."

For someone who is always scared of everything going wrong and loves to be prepared, this was a solid guide. I learned a lot, and just retook a CPR certification course, so I felt like I read this at just the right time.
I'd prefer not to have to eat rats or build a shelter in the tundra, but I feel better about thinking about having to do those things now...I guess.

[Sam Erickson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very informative. Some of the sea survival stuff felt a bit more specialized than a normal person would encounter (specifically the survival suits) and some of the information targeting game (how to set traps, how to gut and prepare game) felt a bit too simpilized for a person like me (who has never hunted or even fished), but there was a lot of information that I felt like I would at least have a good guide if I ever found myself in a situation where I would need it. I picked up this book because I flipped to the page about how to set fractures and instantly thought of how useful this book would be in terms of writing; it'll go on my writing/information shelf most likely. If not, it may hang out in the emergency preparedness pile/easily accessible when it comes to camping trips and such.

[Mayank Bhamenaya · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book unlike most of the others in this genre is “idiot proof”. Thanks to its, extremely graphical representation. from gutting a large mammal to tending a compound fracture with minimum to no resource

[Kaylyn Gabbert · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is very helpful and resourceful for book research.

[Fabian the Lionheart · Rating 5 out of 5]

Terrific. It's got very nice, easy on the eyes illustrations. Detailed information, a good step up from the classic "SAS Survival Handbook" by J. Wiseman. Good for anyone interested in the outdoors.

[rey · Rating 5 out of 5]

I don’t read survival books so I can’t rank this from others but incredibly informative and useful. I learned so so much and feel as if in an emergency I know endless amount of ways to get myself back to a safe environment. Highly recommend