The Survival Whistle by Lifesystems is a pocket-sized whistle that can be attached anywhere with a key-ring. It is ideal to attract attention in an emergency & it is recommended by the Mountain Leader Training Board as an essential item to be carried in the hills. This is a tough, lightweight plastic whistle capable of producing a 122 decibel sound. It is the most powerful in the world. The international distress signal is 6 blasts of a whistle, one minute pause & repeated. ...

“ Survival Wisdom & Know-How” is a practical guide to surviving in the wilderness. No less than 7, 845 useful skills & step-by-step instructions are included. Lists, charts, formulas, recipes, techniques all in one practical volume! Packed with 1, 012 illustrations, diagrams & photographs, topics covered include: Building outdoor shelter. Tracking animals. Winter camping. Reading the weather. Identifying edible plants. Surviving in the desert. Fishing & ice fishing. Hunting & trapping. Navigating without map & compass. Canoeing & kayaking. Tying knots. Administering first aid. Avoiding dangerous mammals. Building & lighting a fire. Choosing a campsite. Recognising poisonous snakes. & much more! ...

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After their 43-foot schooner was stove in by a pod of killer whales, the six members of the Robertson family spent 37 days adrift in the Pacific. With no maps, compass, or navigational instruments, & rations for only three days, they used every survival technique they could as they battled 20-foot waves, marauding sharks, thirst, starvation, & exhaustion. ...

The intrepid Oxford don, explorer & author of Going to Extremes is back, & he's set himself a challenge to cope with the worst that nature can throw at him in Surviving Extremes. Travelling to four of the most extreme natural environments: swamps, deserts, jungles & arctic wastelands, the question is, can he pick up enough tips from the indigenous people to hack it at the very edge of human existence, or will his mid latitude sensibilities forever let him down? This is Nick's account of how he had to put his body & mind to the test in a unique survival experiment. Praise for Going to Extremes: 'A brilliant read...that illustrated the strong will & determination of man in the face of everything that nature had to throw at us' Wanderlust ' Loveably insane Oxford geography professor Nick Middleton...has something of the amateur Victorian explorer about him...a compelling & hilarious look at one of man's lunatic obsessions' The Sunday Times ...

Climate change, killer asteroids or President Palin
- how will the world end? & what exactly can we do about it? The Rough Guide
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Survivor on the River Kwai is the heartbreaking story of Reg Twigg, one of the last men standing from a forgotten war. Called up in 1940, Reg expected to be fighting Germans. Instead, he found himself caught up in the worst military defeat in modern British history
- the fall of Singapore to the Japanese. What followed were three years of hell, moving from one camp to another along the Kwai river, building the infamous Burma railway for the all-conquering Japanese Imperial Army. Some prisoners coped with the endless brutality of the code of Bushido by turning to God; others clung to whatever was left of the regimental structure. Reg made the deadly jungle, with its malaria, cholera, swollen rivers, lethal snakes & exhausting heat, work for him. With an ingenuity that is astonishing, he trapped & ate lizards, harvested pumpkins from the canteen rubbish heap & with his homemade razor became camp barber. That Reg survived is testimony to his own courage & determination, his will to beat the alien brutality of camp guards who had nothing but contempt for him & his fellow POWs. He was a risk taker whose survival strategies sometimes bordered on genius. Reg's story is unique. Reg Twigg was born at Wigston (Leicester) barracks on 16 December 1913, just a few months before the outbreak of the First World War. After the war Reg worked as a warehouseman until retirement, cycling twenty miles daily to Leicester. He still lives in Leicester, & with his family he visited the sites of the POW camps in Thailand in 2006.
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An awe-inspiring journey through the eons & across the globe in search of visible traces of evolution in the living creatures that have survived from earlier times. In this groundbreaking book, prize-winning science writer Richard Fortey chronicles life`s history not through the fossil record, but through the stories of organisms that have survived, almost unchanged, through geological time. Fortey takes us on a journey to ancient worlds: on a moonlit beach in Delaware where the horseshoe crab shuffles its way through a violent romance, we catch a glimpse of life 450 million years ago. Along a stretch of Australian coastline, we bear witness to the sights & sounds that would have greeted a Precambrian dawn. &, in the dense rainforests of New Zeal&, where the secretive velvet worm burrows into the rotting timber of the jungle floor, we marvel at a living fossil which has survived unchanged since before the break-up of Gondwana, the ancient supercontinent, over 150 million years ago. Written with Fortey`s customary sparkle & gusto, this wonderfully engrossing exploration of the world`s oldest flora & fauna brilliantly combines the best science writing about the origins of life with an explorer`s sense of adventure & a poet`s wonder at the natural world. ...

Winner of the Best Book With Facts Blue Peter Book Award 2017 Beautifully presented in a large, paperback format, & fully illustrated in colour throughout, this wonderful anthology is a treat for all the family. Be shocked & amazed by these incredible real-life stories of extreme survival, including... The Man Who Sucked Blood from a Shark, a sailor who survived for 133 days on a raft in the Atlantic when his ship was torpedoed, using shark`s blood in place of fresh water. The Girl Who Fell From the Sky, a teenager who fell 2 miles from an aeroplane & trekked through the Amazon jungle to safety. The Woman Who Froze to Death
- Yet Lived, a woman who was trapped under freezing water for so long her heart stopped. Four hours later, medics managed to warm her blood enough to revive her. Combining classic tales such as Ernest Shackleton`s Antarctic voyage, as well as more modern exploits such as the adventurer who inspired the movie 127 Hours, these astonishing stories will be retold by young readers to all of their friends.
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Rebecca West`s never-before-published ` Survivors in Mexico` brings to readers a work by a major 20thh-century author. An exhilarating exploration of Mexican history, religion, art & culture, it explores the inner lives of figures ranging from Corres & Montezuma to Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo & Leon Trotsky. ...