Survival Tips for Living the Adventurous Life contains true-life accounts of an individual growing up through adventure after adventure, shortly after birth to retirement age. Whether from an airplane crash, a different aircraft almost losing an engine, and being upside down in various automobiles, the author lived through each adventure, learning more and more from his experiences. All provided here! The tips are the culmination of a lifetime of adventures and how the author got through it all. From the "never agains" to the "yes, sign me up agains," you see the what, where, how, and why an individual makes the choices we all face. While none of the adventures are recommended, each one contains a life lesson, perhaps a life lesson all can learn from. Example by example, starting from being a baby through forty-plus years of marriage, you get to almost live each adventure with the author. Whether hanging from the seat belt upside down in an overturned vehicle to surviving a small airplane crash at night in the Tahoe area, all the areas that impacted the author's life and how he made it through are detailed in a thrillingly fun read! Circumstances that make you laugh out loud and some that may remind you of your childhood and adolescent times! The author winds you through life lessons learned from over sixty-five years of adventures. Whether willingly jumped into or dragged into by his peers, each adventure is documented, good or bad. Enjoy the read!

The ultimate survival guide from Bear Grylls, former Special Forces soldier and #1 world-renowned "King of Survival" (Outside) For more than a decade, Bear Grylls has introduced TV viewers to the most dramatic wilderness survival situations, through his hit shows such as Man Vs. Wild. Now, with How to Stay Alive, Bear reveals to readers his full toolkit of survival tactics, from everyday basics like avoiding blisters to once-in-a-lifetime events like surviving a kidnapping. Opening with the most essential survival skills—assembling your survival kit, making a fire, building a shelter—and then moving on to more specific situations, such as escaping fire, dealing with harsh terrain, and handling medical emergencies, Grylls is a sure guide for any type of disaster situation. Readers will learn how to survive in a life raft, land a helicopter in an emergency, treat hypothermia and frostbite, escape from quicksand, and numerous other lifesaving tips. Richly illustrated with diagrams throughout, How to Stay Alive will be the definitive outdoor survival tome for years to come.

Are you ready to be an explorer? Do you know how to cope with searing heat and intense cold? Can you find food and water in the wild? Avoid deadly diseases? Fight back against man-eating beasts? Bear Grylls World Adventure Survival Camp will teach you everything you need to know to cope in all weather and terrain. The perfect gift for any young adventurers in training.

Essential skills for outdoor adventure from the Royal Marines Learn to stay alive with the Royal Marines. Want to know what to do if you met a bear in the woods, how to light a fire in the rain or what to do in shark-infested waters? Get the answers to these and many more questions with the ultimate guide to survival techniques as experienced by the Royal Marines. Pick up survival basics, from staying fit, to planning your expedition and packing essential kit. Discover what to do on a trail, from navigating and using pack animals to hiking or even skiing to your destination. You'll pick up wilderness techniques and learn to make shelters, find water, spot, catch and cook wild food. And when there's an emergency you'll be glad you learned how to mount a rescue, use essential first aid techniques and even how to get found. Learn survival techniques from the men who've been there, done it and survived. And take on the most testing challenges nature can throw at you.

Four travelers meet in Bolivia and set off into the heart of the Amazon rainforest, but what begins as a dream adventure quickly deteriorates into a dangerous nightmare, and after weeks of wandering in the dense undergrowth, the four backpackers split up into two groups. But when a terrible rafting accident separates him from his partner, Yossi is forced to survive for weeks alone against one of the wildest backdrops on the planet. Stranded without a knife, map, or survival training, he must improvise shelter and forage for wild fruit to survive. As his feet begin to rot during raging storms, as he loses all sense of direction, and as he begins to lose all hope, he wonders whether he will make it out of the jungle alive. Lost in the Jungle is the story of friendship and the teachings of nature, and a terrifying true account that you won’t be able to put down.

101 of the best survival tips used by the United States Army.

The Adventurer’s Guide to Living a Happy Life is a no-nonsense, straightforward collection of tips that will guide you forward on your journey to a happy life. Leave it to Powder Matt, coach, executive, family man, lover of life, and outdoor adventurer to provide simple tips that you can easily use to enhance your own life. Distilled from his own vast knowledge and experience, from heart-pounding adventures to walking in his local park to preparing and training for one of the world’s toughest adventure races, or his harrowing, life-changing experience of surviving a grizzly attack, he boils down what has worked for him into this easy-to-read guide consisting of sixty-three simple tips to add happiness to your life each and every day. This book will help you to: Stick to adding happiness to your life each and every day Take stock daily and become aware of your actions Focus on positive action that creates a ripple effect Stay motivated, focused, and refreshed Celebrate the small successes daily Believe that you will feel happier every day!