Getting Out Alive: 13 Deadly Scenarios and How Others Survived

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Learn important survival skills from thirteen captivating stories of people stranded and fighting for their lives against harsh, unmerciful conditions. A unique combination of fictional scenarios, true accounts, and instructive sidebars, Getting Out Alive reveals the three vital ways to cheat death when all seems lost: avoid panic, know your survival skills, and maintain a relentless determination to make it out alive. Teaching by example, the characters in these adventures use real-life survival tactics—including navigating, building shelters, finding water, and signaling for help. Featuring tales of being surrounded by a forest fire, lost in the Amazon, marooned on an island, caught in an icy blizzard, and many more.DESC> survival;emergency preparedness;disaster preparedness;guides;reference;emergency;disaster;self-help;safety;security;outdoor skills;survival skills;survivalist;survivalism;survival stories;hiking;amazon basin;hurricane;category 4 hurricane;gunfight;gunfire;in the line of fire;castaway;marooned on an island;forest fire;snowbound;blizzard;adrift;mauled by a bear;bear attack;animal attack;plane crash;power outage SEL049010 SELF-HELP / Safety & Security / Survival & Emergency Preparedness * SPO030000 SPORTS & RECREATION / Outdoor Skills 9781612430904 The Pulse: A Novel of Surviving the Collapse of the Grid Scott B. Williams