Fun book and presumably useful if you can remember what it advises and you find yourself in a dire situation.

10 minute read... ( )

Är du förberedd på de obehagligheter och katastrofer du faktiskt kan stöta på? Hur är det med nerverna, kunskapen och tajmingen? Har du is eller fjärilar i magen när det börjar osa hett?
I VÄRSTA FALL ger dig frågor och svar, fakta och tips som hjälper dig inventera dina färdigheter - och hitta dina kunskapsluckor. Här ställs du inför svåra val och tvingas fatta tuffa beslut. Du lär dig hantera allt från naturkatastrofer till anfallande vilddjur. Testa ditt mod, dina begränsningar och dina fobier.
Vad gör du om du blir anfallen av en haj? Överraskad av en snöstorm? Hur kommer man loss om man bara inte kunde motstå att slicka på en djupfryst lyktstolpe?

The indispensable, indestructible guide for surviving life's sudden turns for the worse. Survival experts provide illustrated, step-by-step instructions on what you need to know fast.

Contents

Foreword by 'Mountain' Mel Deweese
Preface
1 Great escapes and entrances
How to escape from quicksand
How to break down a door
How to break into a car
How to hot-wire a car
How to perform a fast 180-degree turn with your car
How to ram a car
How to escape from a sinking car
How to deal with a downed power ine
2 The best defense
How to survive a popisnous snake attack
How to fend off a shark
How to escape from a bear
How to escape from a mountain lion
How to wrestle free from an alligator
How to escape from killer bees
How to deal with a charging bull
How to win a sword fight
How to take a punch
3 Leaps of faith
How to jump from a bridge or cliff into a river
How to jump from a building into a dumpster
How to maneuver on top of a moving train and get inside
How to jumb from a moving car
How to leap from a motorcycle to a car
4 Emergencies
How to perform a tracheotomy
How to use a defibrillator to restore a heartbeat
How to identify a bomb
How to deliver a baby in a taxicab
How to treat frostbite
How to treat a leg fracture
How to treat a bullet or knife wound
5 Adventure survival
How to land a plane
How to survive an earthquake
How to survive adrift at sea
How to survive when lost in the desert
How to survive if your parachute fails to open
How to survive an avalanche
How to survive if you are in the line of gunfire
How to survive when lost in the mountains
How to make fire without without matches
How to avoid being struck by lightning
How to get to the surface if your scuba tank runs out of air
The experts
About the authors

I'm a sucker for practical knowledge and I've been wanting to read this book; its trendiness put me off buying it originally, but about a fortnight ago, my neighbour was getting rid of several boxes of books and offered to let me riffle through them first. This was one of the books I took. It's good, it's practical, but I'm glad I didn't buy it when it came out.

Unless you live a very different, very active lifestyle, a good number of these are not going to be scenarios you're likely to confront, short of end-of-life-as-we-know it. I'm having a hard time coming up with at-all-likely situations where I'd need to know how to meneuver atop a train, or jump from a motorcycle to a moving car. Ditto hot-wiring (although that's fun to know) and how to win a sword fight. But most of the entries are for things that for most people are at least possible scenarios, if not probably ones and the information is easy to understand and not so difficult you'd forget how to do it in a crunch (except possibly starting a fire - there's a lot of bits involved in that one).

It's a very quick read, and a useful book to keep around on the off chance I need to know how to prepare myself for a trip to the desert, or I need to pick a lock. But I'm glad I waited until fate dropped a free copy in my lap. ( )

I received this book through LibraryThing's Early Reviewers program.

This book gives advice for surviving a multitude of different scenarios. The information could be useful in one of these situations though I question if you would have it near or have the time to look up the advice. A few sections were tongue-in-cheek but the great majority is serious. I found it a bit hard to finish as it became repetitive and dull. I also don't plan on maneuvering on top of a train and trying to get inside.

The book is a bright yellow hardcover. It is small enough that it could go in your camping gear. I personally would not waste the space in my backpack. I have seriously mixed feelings about this book. ( )