A phenomenal amount of detailed info.:

• Comprehensive section on the psychology of survival:
  Understand how you and others may react to disaster and what to do to survive mentally and cope in the aftermath of disaster.
  
  
• Find water and make it potable:
  At base camp, when on patrol, in an extreme survival situation or when the water supply to your home dries up - all you need to know is here.
  
  
• Extreme survival - hunting, trapping and snaring animals:
  How catch them, kill them and prepare them for cooking. Fully illustrated with photos and diagrams.
  
  
• Extreme survival - edible florae and what not to eat:
  Find edible florae anywhere in the world. Fantastic photos to aid identification; you will find no other survival guide can give you this level of detail.
  
  How to make sure a plant is safe to eat. How to treat poisoning from ingesting the world's most dangerous plants.
  
  Extracting flour and making bread in a survival situation. All the plants featured have been tried by the author and he even tells you how to prepare them and what they taste like.
  
  
• Making shelters and fire:
  Keeping warm and dry in an extreme survival situation.
  
  
• Making primitive weapons and tools:
  Making and using primitive weapons for hunting and for self-defence including:
  
  Flint knapping - make a stone knife, arrowheads and useful implements.
  
  Make an effective spear and spear-thrower.
  
  Make a hunting bow.
  
  Make a bola and much more…
  
  
• Navigation in all terrains day and night:
  Learn how to travel with and without a compass. Do you know how to tell the time from the sun, moon and stars?
  
  
• Extreme environments:
  What to expect in the most extreme biomes on earth: The Antarctic, Arctic and extreme north and south, desert, seasonal forest, secondary jungle, swamps, tropical rainforest, temperate and Mediterranean areas. Dealing with wild animal attacks (with true stories of survival). Illustrated with photos showing you what each biome looks like, what to expect and how to survive in these extreme places.
  
  
  Attracting attention:
  Signalling for help from land and sea.
  
  
• Natural disasters:
  Dealing with: Floods, landslides, mudslides and avalanches, hurricanes, cyclones, tornadoes and tropical storms, earthquakes, heat waves, wildfires and lightning.
  
  
• Survival at sea:
  Why many people die soon after hitting the water and how to survive this. Adrift in the open ocean - surviving in a life raft or life jacket. Adrift in the open sea is one of the toughest survival challenges we can face - and it can happen to anyone who travels by ship or aircraft. Full medical guide for ships where there is no doctor onboard.
  
  
• Urban survival:
  Survival in the home, detailed information on storing and preserving food, evacuation preparation, emergency water supplies, if your home is on fire, making a safe room, dealing with burglars, survival on the streets, defensive driving, dog attacks, industrial accident, warfare and terrorist attacks, dealing with terrorists and survival advice for women - self-defence and defending against rape attacks.
  
  
• Top survival tips and know-how, including:
  Climbing a coco palm, cardio-pulmonary resuscitation, making a firebow, making a cooking fire, sharpening a survival knife, making a survival kit, making cordage, making nets, making glue, knots, treating frostbite, first aid, sewing up a wound, escape and evasion for military personnel and civilians, emergency sanitation, using aircraft parts for survival, dealing with snake bites, making rafts and crossing rivers.
  
  
• Fit to Survive:
  Why it is necessary to get fit, benefits of being in good shape, healthy eating including complete diet plan and detailed recipes, sleep and rest, clothing, equipment, self-assessment, flexibility exercises, strength exercises, aerobic exercises, assessment centre and complete fitness programme. All training exercises fully illustrated with quality photos.
  
  
• True survival stories to learn from:
  Escape and Evasion, lost in the Amazon, everglades horror, plane down in the N. Atlantic, Julianne Koepcke's story, swept away in a tsunami. Also, many true survival anecdotes used throughout the text in the book keeps the pulse racing.
  
  Essential military survival guide covering first aid on land and at sea, finding water and food, making weapons, dealing with the psychological aspects of survival in war zones, escape and evasion.

A book to sit and study or just to dip into and enjoy. A searchable survival database of reliable advice.

James Mandeville tells many survival anecdotes; there are many lessons to learn. The book is designed so the reader can go into each subject in depth or quickly find and focus on a specific area of interest. The accuracy and level of detail in this book makes it one of the most valuable sources of survival information you can find collected in one place. A wealth of experience and expertise went into writing this book.