The worst-case scenario survival handbook travel

Piven, Joshua. (Author). Borgenicht, David. (Added Author).

Summary: "Presents advice from experts on the techniques they would use to respond to a variety of emergency situations such as delivering a baby in a taxi, fending off a shark, landing an airplane, and others."

Record details

ISBN: 9780811873581 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0811873587 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (190 p.) : ill.
Publisher: San Francisco : Chronicle Books, c2001.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Getting there: How to control a runaway camel -- How to stop a runaway passenger train -- How to stop a car with no brakes -- How to stop a runaway horse -- How to crash land a plane on water -- How to survive and airplane crash -- People skills: -- How to survive a riot -- How to survive a hostage situation -- How to pass a bribe -- How to foil a scam artist -- How to foil a UFO abduction -- How to survive a mugging -- How to tail a thief -- How to lose someone who is following you -- Getting around: How to jump from rooftop to rooftop -- How to jump from a moving train -- How to escape from a car hanging over the edge of a cliff -- How to escape when tied up -- How to ram a barricade -- How to escape from the trunk of a car -- How to survive a fall onto subway tracks -- How to survive in a plummeting elevator -- Out and about: How to survive when lost in the jungle -- How to find your way without a compass -- How to climb out of a well -- How to navigate a minefield -- How to survive a riptide -- How to survive when you fall through ice -- How to survive in frigid water -- How to survive a trip over a waterfall -- How to survive a volcanic eruption -- Food and shelter: How to survive a high rise hotel fire -- How to find water on a deserted island -- How to purify water -- How to build a shelter in the snow -- How to survive a tsunami -- How to survive a sandstorm -- How to catch fish without a rod -- How to make animal traps -- Surviving Illness and injury: How to deal with a tarantula -- How to treat a scorpion sting -- How to cross a piranha infested river -- How to treat a severed limb -- How to remove a leech.

Source of Description Note:

Description based on print version record.