This brilliant & completely addictive book is perfect for anyone with a yen to taste danger enjoy the freedom of the outdoors imagine risk or even just have fun. Less the Dangerous Book for Boys it is more the Dangerous Book for Boys Who Never Grew Up. From potentially useful abilities like how to find water anywhere (even in a desert) how to treat shock heatstroke & frostbite build a shelter from branches & leaves & fish with your shirt to fascinating techniques that are unlikely ever to be needed like how to predict the weather from plants survive a stampede or wildfire swim through burning oil jump from a moving train or cross a fast-moving river this book details over 300 skills that seem absolutely essential to know whilst youre reading the book. It even details apocalyptic survival solutions in the event of a massive tsunami or nuclear accident & if all else fails describes how to extract a natural painkiller from tree bark. Written in a wry humorous way this book could be used as a practical guide but will invariably have a lot of appeal to armchair adventurers as an entertaining reference. It will make the perfect gift for teenage boys twentysomething males & overgrown kids of all ages. Full colour throughout it has photographs illustrations diagrams & lists which make it ideal for opening at random to discover something interesting as well as reading through from cover to cover.