This book includes everything you need to know to survive in emergency situations. Organized by climate and terrain and adorned with over two hundred illustrations, it guides you step by step from building tools and preserving food in the wilderness, to finding your way to allow civilization. 

Key topics include building shelters, traps, tools, and designs, first aid in the wilderness (from setting fractures to emergency surgery). The art of knots as well as how to survive natural disasters and overcome all natural obstacles. 

You will also learn which plants are safe and which are poisonous, as well as which animals are dangerous. The author of the book, Alexander Stilwell, has written and edited many books on sports and outdoor activities for the past fifteen years in the British Army, where he was trained in survival skills, first aid, and escape and evasion techniques. In his free time, he engages in extreme sports and marathons.