Stay Alive!: Essential Survival Skills
Stay Alive!: Survival Skills You Need
Summary
“Stay Alive!: Survival Skills You Need” emphasizes that having a survival kit is not sufficient; understanding how to use it is crucial. This book is essential for anyone, from everyday commuters to adventurous sports enthusiasts, who may face emergencies.
Key Features:
- Author: John D. McCann
- Focus: Developing a survivor mentality and executing essential skills to stay alive.
Skill Categories Covered:
- Survival kits
- Knives & tools
- Fire
- Shelter
- Water
- Signaling for help
- Navigating to safety
- Food
- First aid
The book includes over 300 full-color photos, providing clear and detailed guidance for surviving emergencies during adventures, sports, and travel.
$26.99
Description
Stay Alive!: Survival Skills You Need
Publisher: Krause Publications
Publication Date: November 21, 2011
Language: English
Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
ISBN-10: 9781440218309
ISBN-13: 978-1440218309
Item Weight: 1.22 pounds
Dimensions: 6 x 0.7 x 9 inches
Product Description
Are you ready to master the art of survival? Stay Alive!: Survival Skills You Need is your essential guide to navigating the great outdoors and thriving in any situation. This illustrated edition provides practical, hands-on techniques that will empower you to face challenges with confidence and resilience.
What You’ll Discover:
- Essential Survival Skills: Learn how to build shelters, find food and water, and navigate through the wilderness with ease.
- Expert Tips and Techniques: Benefit from insights from survival experts, ensuring you’re well-prepared for any scenario.
- Illustrative Guides: With detailed illustrations, complex concepts are made simple, allowing you to visualize and implement survival strategies effectively.
- Real-Life Scenarios: Gain valuable knowledge from real-world experiences and case studies that demonstrate the importance of preparedness.
Whether you’re an outdoor enthusiast, a seasoned adventurer, or just looking to enhance your survival knowledge, Stay Alive! is the perfect companion for anyone who wants to be ready for whatever nature throws their way.
Prepare yourself today and ensure you have the skills necessary to stay alive in any situation!
Get your copy now and embark on your journey to becoming a survival expert!
Additional information
Specification: Stay Alive!: Essential Survival Skills
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Brad C. –
This is a great book filled with high quality photos and very detailed text. It is a book that is written well and gives details not usually found in the standard survival texts on the market. It is also a fun to read book and the photos alone are worth the price of the book.
Hunter Adam –
The front cover states “Stay Alive, Survival Skills you Need”. This was a follow up from Mr. McCann’s first book “Build the Perfect Survival Kit”.
So my first impressions of this book before really diving into it is that it has good detailed colored pictures, but it seemed like the majority of the pictures were of gear. OK, I’m a gear queer, no issue there, lets get into reading the book.
The book is a little over 250 pages long, and measures 9″x6″x.5″; a little big for anything but a large kit but is only a little larger than the custom reference book (in a military flight crew checklist folder) I keep in my kit. It is not a hard read by any means but doesn’t make you feel over educated either.
So my post reading opinion of the book. I have not read his first book “Build the perfect survival kit” but I feel this must have been pretty close to the first book. So why would I say that? Well akin to my initial observations, the book really focuses more on what’s in your survival kit and what gear is out there versus actual skills. Overall the book is about 85% kit, 15% skill, which I felt was contradictory to what the statement on the cover of book that again states “Survival Skills you Need”.
I found allot of the recommendations and uses for the gear mentioned to be very valuable and great for someone that has yet to find the right balance in their kit, or has yet to put together a kit. Everything recommended has a short description on how or when to use the item which again I found helpful.
The books strong points on skills (the 15% that are int he book), were in the Gear, Land navigation section, Animal/fish trapping, Water transportation (light on the purification side, but again heavy on gear that will purify it for you) and Signalling. Even though I say these were the books strong points even the author admits its a basic beginning/reference.
So when the author referenced his website a few times in the book I made it a point to visit online. What I found was his website literally sells all the gear he mentions in this book. I felt that this kind of made his book kind of a shoppers guide to gear. Now if he truly believes this gear is the best, which i agree some of it is, then props. It just shows his devotion and beliefs that this is top notch gear if so. Some of the more expensive items he shows in his book (ex. Fehrman knives, some prices over $400.00) are not on his site.
Mr. McCann does run his own survival school out of the Adirondack park in NY. He does not mention firearms in his book, or their use in a survival situation. To me he perceives himself a bit of a naturalist. No mention of defense, in matter of fact the only time he mentions defense is if your getting mauled by a black bear; two areas I find very important to be well rounded in prepping or survival. I feel maybe he could have mentioned how to make a bow, club, or even show in his short section about slingshots how they can be used in self defense.
He mentions his own school and books in the back of the book under references, which he is entitled to do as the author, but doesn’t really show his humble side in my opinion.
Rating: So not to insult the member that has this in their BOB, but this would never make its way to my BOB as a reference book while in the field. I think this is a great book if your just getting started and haven’t started assembling a kit yet. I will be purchasing a few items myself because they will compliment my kit well. It’s a good book to have in your survival library, but as a reference for gear, not for skills (which I feel a BOB reference book should be all about). Recommended for people just waking up from sheeple mode getting started in prepping. For those of you that have a comprehensive kit already assembled I suggest passing the book over and visiting Mr. McCanns website: [url][…][/url] just to search through options and to do a little window shopping.
Final note: I’m not knocking the author but want to give you all my fair unbiased assessment of the book and what I took from it. I would personally like to go through his school and will be buying a few items from his website but I will not be buying anymore of his books. Not at my level of preparation anyway.
Hope this helped.
Outdoors –
This is a fantastic book by John McCann. The author really knows his stuff, & the book is an excellent follow-up to his first book, Build The Perfect Survival Kit. There’s a lot of information available today on the subject of survival, much of which is produced by people who don’t have real experience in this area. Mr. McCann is a seasoned military veteran who practices his skills in the field. In my opinion, you won’t find a better person suited to teach you survival skills.
How To Build A Pocket Survival Kit (Building Your Own Survival Kits)
111t –
If you are venturing into the outdoors, do yourself a favor and put together a basic emergency survival kit. If you decide to put together a basic emergency survival kit, do yourself a favor and buy this book. This book is chock full of excellent information. It’s hard to know while browsing books online which ones are just fluff and which ones are worth having. This one is worth having.
Sandruu –
I saw this at the NRA museum in DC so I was able to check it out there. I love the fact it has so many pictures not just text or drawings like other guides. Plus everything is in color. The level is not too low or high so I think this is a very helpful guide and easy to understand! I loved the savings I got online!
Richard –
An excellent book about survival techniques.
It is very enlightening on the various techniques and items of survival use.
A very recommendable book for every outdoors lover/enthusiast.
greenglo –
The title of this book is misleading. The front cover screams “stay alive!” and “survival skills you need”. while the book contains very little info on the actual skills to help you survive or stay alive. Instead, it’s filled with ton of outdoor gear of all sorts which the author recommends you carry and explains their uses briefly. That’s all good. If you have the money, buy the latest gear and fancy knives and all that but where are the actual survival skills? Very little to be found in this book. Just the very basics are covered and no outdoor first aid. In truth, I have all the survival items that I need already so this book really does nothing for me. Seems like the author just remixed and expanded his previous book “build the perfect survival kit” and published this book so if you have that text, I’m not sure you will need this one.
russuhl –
Very useful information. Could save your ass.
R. Peckham –
This book is a well put together book with good pictures matching the text. A good amount of info with in the book as well. A must have and read.
Dragunov –
I love how this book is packed with illustrations. The chapters are organized very well. I have not read it through all the way yet, but the part on map reading looks really good. I’m still working on my survival kit. This is a great read for the novice wanna-be survivalist, like me. I hope to learn much from this book and once again, the illustrations are extremely helpful.