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The Survival Handbook

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The Survival Handbook by Colin Towell offers a practical and visual guide to mastering camping, wilderness, and outdoor survival skills. Drawing on Towell's experience as an ex-SAS Combat Survival Instructor, the book combines military survival techniques with bushcraft know-how. It covers everything from planning expeditions, making fires, and building shelters, to sourcing food and managing natural hazards. Clear step-by-step instructions and detailed illustrations ensure readers are well prepared for a wide range of outdoor challenges, whether in the wild or at sea.
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Format: Paperback / softback
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This book is ideal for outdoor enthusiasts, campers, adventurers, and anyone looking to develop reliable survival skills for use in remote or harsh environments.

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The no-nonsense visual guide to camping, wilderness, and outdoor survival skills in a handy format.

Take on the toughest challenges that nature can throw at you with the ultimate visual guide to camping, wilderness, and outdoor survival skills.

Written by Colin Towell, an ex-SAS Combat Survival Instructor, The Survival Handbook is bursting with survival tips, manual skills, camping essentials, and advice on how to improvise, survive, and get found - on land or at sea.

Combining proven, no-nonsense military survival skills with ingenious bushcraft techniques, specially commissioned illustrations and accessible step-by-step instructions show you how to survive in the wild. Learn how to plan your expedition, how to make a fire, and how to build a shelter, and everything you need to know about wild food and natural dangers.

Revel in inspirational real-life survival stories and be prepared for every outdoor situation. From survival basics, such as finding water and catching fish, to extreme survival situations including being adrift at sea or lost in the jungle, The Survival Handbook will steer you through life’s toughest adventures in the world’s harshest climates.

Whether you are preparing for a camping trip, or going further afield, The Survival Handbook is a perfect guide to the great outdoors in a handy size to pack.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780241437483

Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 05 March 2020

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: DK

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 25.0mm

Width: 155.0mm

Height: 215.0mm

Weight: 556g

Pages: 320

About the Author

Colin Towell joined the Royal Navy in 1977, qualifying as a Combat Survival Instructor with 22 Regiment SAS. As well as seeing active service, he has spent over 30 years teaching land, sea, desert, jungle, and cold-weather survival skills to UK Army, Navy, Royal Marines, and Air Force personnel. Colin also provided survival support for Sir Richard Branson's balloon global circumnavigation attempts. His most recent book is DK's 9+ publication Survival for Beginners.

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