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How To Survive A Freakin’ Bear Attack: And 127 Other Survival Hacks You'll Hopefully Never Need
Would you know what to do if a bear charged at you?
What about if you were out driving and an earthquake struck? Or a tornado?
What about if you were bitten by a snake in the middle of nowhere, or caught in an avalanche while out skiing or hiking? What if you found yourself the sole survivor of some awful incident, and had to make a new home for yourself stranded on a desert island? Would you know how to spear a fish, or how to distill pure water using only a plastic bottle? Could you make your own rope, your own torch, or tell which of the unfamiliar plants and animals around you may or may not be edible?
How To Survive A Freakin’ Bear Attack… And 127 Other Survival Hacks You’ll Hopefully Never Need has all the answers you could ever need!
Packed with step-by-step survival guides to some of the most remarkable scenarios imaginable.
Real life advice for some of life’s challenges and unpredictable situations.
Chapters covering everything from first aid and CPR to climbing trees, building rope bridges, and lighting a campfire using only your phone.
Fun and fascinating, yet bursting with real-world knowledge, tips, and advice!
Who knows if, when, or indeed how you might need to know any of the 128 extraordinary survival skills included in this book. But life is anything but predictable.
Hopefully, you’ll never need to know how to flee a sinking ship or a burning building, or be in any kind of situation where you might need to safely package up a severed body part or perform abdominal surgery on yourself…
But given that we never quite know what’s around the corner the hints and tips included here may one day – hopefully! –come in useful.
What about if you were out driving and an earthquake struck? Or a tornado?
What about if you were bitten by a snake in the middle of nowhere, or caught in an avalanche while out skiing or hiking? What if you found yourself the sole survivor of some awful incident, and had to make a new home for yourself stranded on a desert island? Would you know how to spear a fish, or how to distill pure water using only a plastic bottle? Could you make your own rope, your own torch, or tell which of the unfamiliar plants and animals around you may or may not be edible?
How To Survive A Freakin’ Bear Attack… And 127 Other Survival Hacks You’ll Hopefully Never Need has all the answers you could ever need!
Packed with step-by-step survival guides to some of the most remarkable scenarios imaginable.
Real life advice for some of life’s challenges and unpredictable situations.
Chapters covering everything from first aid and CPR to climbing trees, building rope bridges, and lighting a campfire using only your phone.
Fun and fascinating, yet bursting with real-world knowledge, tips, and advice!
Who knows if, when, or indeed how you might need to know any of the 128 extraordinary survival skills included in this book. But life is anything but predictable.
Hopefully, you’ll never need to know how to flee a sinking ship or a burning building, or be in any kind of situation where you might need to safely package up a severed body part or perform abdominal surgery on yourself…
But given that we never quite know what’s around the corner the hints and tips included here may one day – hopefully! –come in useful.
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198 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 22, 2022
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January 10, 2023
One day read, full of typos and other bad editing, but fun nonetheless. Hope I never need to use any of these!
February 2, 2024
This was a book whose topic I am normally much inclined to be quite interested in but upon opening the book the Disclaimer made quite certain this was a book meant to be more entertainment than actual fact. And that did dull some of my interest.
The book is basically set-up to either be a collection of small chapters that either focus on providing the reader with a survival scenario, survival techniques or a part of a Top 5 Hacks. There is no order to any of them thus the reader ends up basically bouncing randomly from one subject to another such as the chapter for making a fire ends up coming behind the fact on how to extinguish a fire.
Although widely the information can be informative there is just a bunch that is either lacking in detail as mentioned in the Disclaimer to make it cursory, wrong or confusingly conflicting or not even inclusive. Take for example there is a chapter on how to escape from being buried underground but the scenario focuses on a wooden coffin, which isn't as common as it once was so will the same tricks work? My guess is no.
Wrong information included stuff such as feeling for people's Adam's apple if you are needing to do a tracheotomy (most women don't have one) or distinguishing venomous snakes by their thick, triangular-shaped heads, which can normally be mimicked by non-venomous snakes when they are feeling threatened. Conflicting information includes telling you to stand tall for a bear attack before all of a sudden having you fall to the ground to pay dead instead.
If the book had been more complete and a bit more reliant I would have loved to have seen guides for certain things that sounded a bit more complex to understand as another reader had mentioned previously.
The book does have a few illustrative means that are just sketches of the scenarios they are being used for. Some of them throw in a few humorous elements but otherwise it is a bit of a break.
Otherwise the book just makes one know how ridiculously over-prepared and burdened you would have to be to make tips like these mostly work to help you in any scenario. And just how much a miracle it is for each story of survival that comes out with less than what has been recommended in these guides.
The book is basically set-up to either be a collection of small chapters that either focus on providing the reader with a survival scenario, survival techniques or a part of a Top 5 Hacks. There is no order to any of them thus the reader ends up basically bouncing randomly from one subject to another such as the chapter for making a fire ends up coming behind the fact on how to extinguish a fire.
Although widely the information can be informative there is just a bunch that is either lacking in detail as mentioned in the Disclaimer to make it cursory, wrong or confusingly conflicting or not even inclusive. Take for example there is a chapter on how to escape from being buried underground but the scenario focuses on a wooden coffin, which isn't as common as it once was so will the same tricks work? My guess is no.
Wrong information included stuff such as feeling for people's Adam's apple if you are needing to do a tracheotomy (most women don't have one) or distinguishing venomous snakes by their thick, triangular-shaped heads, which can normally be mimicked by non-venomous snakes when they are feeling threatened. Conflicting information includes telling you to stand tall for a bear attack before all of a sudden having you fall to the ground to pay dead instead.
If the book had been more complete and a bit more reliant I would have loved to have seen guides for certain things that sounded a bit more complex to understand as another reader had mentioned previously.
The book does have a few illustrative means that are just sketches of the scenarios they are being used for. Some of them throw in a few humorous elements but otherwise it is a bit of a break.
Otherwise the book just makes one know how ridiculously over-prepared and burdened you would have to be to make tips like these mostly work to help you in any scenario. And just how much a miracle it is for each story of survival that comes out with less than what has been recommended in these guides.
December 28, 2023
This book has typos and grammar errors, and has no logical order to the chapters, bouncing around between completely different scenarios. It also could really use images when providing complex instructions (like tying knots and performing stitches).
But generally fun and I still learned some new tidbits.
But generally fun and I still learned some new tidbits.
January 23, 2024
lots good, some bad
There are many, MANY helpful things in this book, and I even learned some new things to add to my skill set. However, several things involving medical advice are wrong, and shouldn’t be attempted without training regardless. The part about surviving a plane crash by putting head between the knees is also just likely to kill you by breaking your neck, as not even flight attendants are taught to use that position. It also clearly has not been spelled out checked, as I had to re-read many sentences over to understand the meaning.
There are many, MANY helpful things in this book, and I even learned some new things to add to my skill set. However, several things involving medical advice are wrong, and shouldn’t be attempted without training regardless. The part about surviving a plane crash by putting head between the knees is also just likely to kill you by breaking your neck, as not even flight attendants are taught to use that position. It also clearly has not been spelled out checked, as I had to re-read many sentences over to understand the meaning.
April 5, 2024
It was ok.
It was very basic. Things I had already read in worst-case scenario books twenty years ago, so it was just like a refresher cliff notes version. Some of the information could really come in handy. Other topics barely scratched the surface of what you would truly need to know if you wanted to survive a specific scenario.
It was very basic. Things I had already read in worst-case scenario books twenty years ago, so it was just like a refresher cliff notes version. Some of the information could really come in handy. Other topics barely scratched the surface of what you would truly need to know if you wanted to survive a specific scenario.
July 6, 2024
Rather sorry I spent the money on the book, actually, small though it was on Kindle. I was hoping for some quirky tidbits but there's little of that in here. A great deal of common sense. In many ways I suspect this was a toss-off book for this author, glommed together with very little research or insight and cranked out literally in a day or two. Sigh. Get off my lawn.
February 6, 2025
Should have had some illustrations or pictures ( ! )
In Full Disclosure: I just flipped through this book & barely any portion of it. I was too annoyed & disappointed that there weren’t any illustrations to help explain how to do anything ( ! )
Just lazy.
Laziness begets laziness.
In Full Disclosure: I just flipped through this book & barely any portion of it. I was too annoyed & disappointed that there weren’t any illustrations to help explain how to do anything ( ! )
Just lazy.
Laziness begets laziness.
December 20, 2023
A few helpful tips, but kind of a waste of.time
In most cases, if you happen to be carrying the tools he suggests then you would know how to use them. Seeking medical attention when available seems to be his go to. That does not seem like a "survival hack".
In most cases, if you happen to be carrying the tools he suggests then you would know how to use them. Seeking medical attention when available seems to be his go to. That does not seem like a "survival hack".
January 23, 2024
Fast read. Learned a few things. Book could have been organized a little better. Some of the survival tips were no brainers. Some could have been more informative and some would likely not happen. Diagrams would have helped on some.
June 12, 2024
Got some good tips from this book but it desperately needed some illustrations. There were cute lil pictures for the beginning of some chapters but some of the stuff needed pictures to SHOW how to do the things.
October 12, 2025
This was a fun and quick read. Nothing ground breaking. But each 1-2 page chapter did put your mind into the situation and offered reasonable advice. It is a good book when you have an hour or two to kill.
January 20, 2024
Lacks the humor and wit you might have expected from the title and cover art. Felt like it was written by A.I.
February 20, 2024
This was a light, easy read full of humor. And assume some truths.
Want to read
May 19, 2024E
July 12, 2024
Too vague, with no illustrations. Since this book is geared toward children, it needs more detailed step by step instructions. I have better survival guides I printed free from the Internet.
January 19, 2025
Gag Christmas gift lol. There's too much to remember.
May 4, 2025
I'm pretty sure this was written by AI and not a single person proof-read it before it was published.
November 28, 2025
I was a little disappointed in this book. I didn't really get a whole lot of useful information. It is interesting to read, but not really very useful
February 21, 2024
Survival in a very small nutshell
Many of the tips given in this book may prove usefull. However, I feel that the descriptions and ideas presented were so brief and skeletal in form, that I'm not sure I would be able to perform morst of them from rote memory itself.
Many of the tips given in this book may prove usefull. However, I feel that the descriptions and ideas presented were so brief and skeletal in form, that I'm not sure I would be able to perform morst of them from rote memory itself.
October 27, 2022
Solutions to ‘what-ifs’ from a wise and helpful guide
Bill O’Neill (aka Trivia Bill) never ceases to amaze! He has enhanced our knowledge of the world with his many books on all sports trivia, unexplained mysteries, interesting stories, Hollywood secrets, the CIA, little known facts about WW I & II, the Civil War, and the Korean and Vietnam wars, inventions, many countries and states, rock and roll, the Titanic, decades of madness, famous ‘badass’ figures of history, and more and more. Now he steps up with a Survival Guide – hardly trivial! - but just as interesting and informed and accessible as his other very popular books.
Reading this book is akin to having a personal guardian who just appears when things get strange or tough, bits of info that can avert potential disasters, such as extinguishing a fire (and building a fire!), surviving a night on a mountain, fixing a broken bone or sterilize a wound or restart a heart, making a tourniquet, gutting and cleaning a fish, surviving a meteor crash, making a life preserver, a slingshot, a makeshift canoe, hot wiring an engine, surviving an earthquake or snow storm or wildfire, how to escape from zip ties or a straightjacket, how to pick a lock or smash a window or land a plane – the list goes on and on with 127 topics well described in Bill’s user friendly technique. As the world grows crazier by the day, with natural and man-made crises, this little handbook belongs in everyone’s hip pocket – or purse – or backpack – or glove compartment…Very Highly Recommended!!!!!
Bill O’Neill (aka Trivia Bill) never ceases to amaze! He has enhanced our knowledge of the world with his many books on all sports trivia, unexplained mysteries, interesting stories, Hollywood secrets, the CIA, little known facts about WW I & II, the Civil War, and the Korean and Vietnam wars, inventions, many countries and states, rock and roll, the Titanic, decades of madness, famous ‘badass’ figures of history, and more and more. Now he steps up with a Survival Guide – hardly trivial! - but just as interesting and informed and accessible as his other very popular books.
Reading this book is akin to having a personal guardian who just appears when things get strange or tough, bits of info that can avert potential disasters, such as extinguishing a fire (and building a fire!), surviving a night on a mountain, fixing a broken bone or sterilize a wound or restart a heart, making a tourniquet, gutting and cleaning a fish, surviving a meteor crash, making a life preserver, a slingshot, a makeshift canoe, hot wiring an engine, surviving an earthquake or snow storm or wildfire, how to escape from zip ties or a straightjacket, how to pick a lock or smash a window or land a plane – the list goes on and on with 127 topics well described in Bill’s user friendly technique. As the world grows crazier by the day, with natural and man-made crises, this little handbook belongs in everyone’s hip pocket – or purse – or backpack – or glove compartment…Very Highly Recommended!!!!!
November 23, 2022
How to survive possible accidents and/or problems
This is a great book on how to survive the most simplest every day problems (sunburn, fire injury, overturned vehicle) to surviving problems in the wilderness. A must read for everyone to stay safe and healthy.
This is a great book on how to survive the most simplest every day problems (sunburn, fire injury, overturned vehicle) to surviving problems in the wilderness. A must read for everyone to stay safe and healthy.
November 21, 2022
Think I'll stay at home
I found this book interesting on how to survive some scary things. My only problem with this book was I felt that there were places that needed an illustration. But that is just me I more of a visual learner. Still there were some good tips in the book.
I found this book interesting on how to survive some scary things. My only problem with this book was I felt that there were places that needed an illustration. But that is just me I more of a visual learner. Still there were some good tips in the book.
January 27, 2023
Don't know what to say!!
I suppose if it is the only survival book you have and you have never been outside your city it might be of some very limited use. It is a good read for entertainment but that is about all. Not Bill's best work. I'm guessing he's a city boy.
I suppose if it is the only survival book you have and you have never been outside your city it might be of some very limited use. It is a good read for entertainment but that is about all. Not Bill's best work. I'm guessing he's a city boy.
October 28, 2022
What's the point of this book
Absolutely rubbish , not one thing in it is worth remembering as its like teaching ducks to swim , terrible,terrible book
Absolutely rubbish , not one thing in it is worth remembering as its like teaching ducks to swim , terrible,terrible book
November 8, 2022
Got this free on Kindle. I think kids will like the book, but for adults, even though the scenarios are provocative, will find the explanations tedious.
January 5, 2023
Cute book, but purely for entertainment and wouldn't use to actually solve problems. Great read for an elementary/jr high kid just getting into spending time in nature
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