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| How to Survive Anywhere: A Guide for Urban, Suburban, Rural, And Wilderness Environments | 
 enlarge | Author: Christopher Nyerges
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Category: Book
List Price: $19.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 108615
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 264
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.5 x 0.8
ISBN: 0811733041
Dewey Decimal Number: 613.69
EAN: 9780811733045
ASIN: 0811733041
Publication Date: September 30, 2006
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Product Description
This unique book addresses the basic survival skills needed to keep you alive and healthy in the woods, suburbs, and city. Each chapter focuses on a primary area of concern - water, fire, food, shelter, clothing, tools, and weapons - describing in detail practices applicable to all environments. This one-of-a-kind guide provides real solutions to life-threatening situations caused by natural or man-made disasters, as well as the challenges encountered by anyone who wants to live more independently from modern systems, for a few days or a lifetime.
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 How to Survive Anywhere: A Guide for Urban, Suburban, Rural, And Wilderness Environments August 24, 2008
I enjoyed the book, got a few interesting ideas on how to live better in a crisis. Very good book.
 Weak in Signaling and Communication December 17, 2007
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
The author is not competent in signalling and communications. He does not mention that flashlights can be communication tools if they have a momentary on button. Minimag and many other popular lights do not have this. (You can learn morse code in 1 day.)
His suggestions about improvised sun-reflecting signals are worthless, as his reference to a "sighting hole" in signal mirrors. He does not understand how such things work. You can improvise a POTENT sun reflector signal that can be accurately aimed if you have a large piece of plain glass and a small mirror with an "X" aperture scraped from the silvering. Talk of using aluminum foil this way is nonsense. With this simple knowledge you might not have to practice cannibalism when your plane crashes in the Andes.
His suggestions about pressing aluminum foil into a water-container for disinfection by boiling are worthless; the foil will have holes in it and will leak.
His use of a bow to support a wire saw is not as good as could be. It is easy to make a much better holder with a heavy forked stick, a smaller end stick that pivots like a lever, and some parachute cord that can be twisted to tighten the lever.
Rely on this book, and you probably won't survive. There are other, much better books. John Build the Perfect Survival KitMcCann is no MacGyver.
The only use of this book is to make me aware of a number of commercial products that I intend to try out.
Build the Perfect Survival Kit
 Covers a lot of ground April 27, 2007
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Very well written and thought out. Covers a lot of ground thats both useful to a survival situation and a primitive lifestyle. There is something for everyone to learn in this book.
Opened my eyes to new ideas and rekindled the basics of what I knew March 3, 2007
1 out of 11 found this review helpful
This is a well written book on Survival and preparedness.
This belongs in everyone's library.
A must read....
Tom tob9595
This is a valuable book February 19, 2007
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
There are a great many books on survival in all manner of settings, but I've not seen one that attempts the scope of this one.
I found his style straightforward and engaging, and the material very helpful. I can't emphasize enough how much ground this book covers. No single book will be the comprehensive manual for all scenarios, and Nyerges doesn't attempt that. What he does, and well in my opinion, is to provide a solid general foundation that can be applied to a wide range of circumstances, situations which are likely to become relevant to not just the outdoorsman, but also to the average person living in cities prone to floods, earthquakes, and other such crises.
Sure, as one of the other reviewers mentioned, given the breadth of what's covered the author might have provided more detail in some sections. But for most people that would mean a book that weighs in at more than a thousand pages and winds up spending more time looking impressive on someone's book shelf than in their hands where it can inspire good thinking about these things.
As the author himself points out, there are other resources where more detailed information can be found on specific topics, and Nyerges provides those references. But at the same time he covers the basics sufficiently here, and in many cases goes beyond the basics.
Is this book the ultimate bible on saving your skin? I don't think any single book will be. But as an introduction to the skills and awareness needed to survive in a wide range of likely scenarios, this book does what it sets out to do, and in a format that's accessible for the average reader.
I've bought a few copies for friends and family, and even have one more on its way to me now.
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