Bücher von John Boswell

Das Überlebenstraining der amerikanischen Elitetruppen dient vielen Abenteurern als Vorbild. Der Autor hat für dieses Buch Broschüren, Druckschriften und Artikel des amerikanischen Militärpersonals gesammelt und daraus einen klaren, genauen und leicht verständlichen Ratgeber erstellt. In Zeiten, in denen Touren in die abgelegensten Gegenden der Welt ganz alltäglich sind, liefert er praxisnahe Informationen zu den wirkungsvollsten Überlebenstechniken, die jedermann griffbereit haben sollte. Ein Standardwerk für jeden, der Individualität und Abenteuer liebt.

Get the same survival training that the U.S. military uses for its troops.The U.S. Armed Forces Survival Guide is the only source hikers, campers, explorers or families focused on emergency preparedness will ever need.The U.S. Armed Forces Survial Guide covers everything a modern outdoorsperson needs to know to make it in tough terrain and tense situations, from the psychology of survial and overcoming fear to building a shelter and making it through a natural disaster, such as a hurricane or earthquake. Every kind of environment--from tropical to desert, aquatic to arctic--is covered.Topics include:--how to orienteer with or without a map and a compass--how to cross quicksand, bogs and quagmires--how to signal for help--how to set a fracture and tend a burn--how to forecast weather--how to trap, fish and set snares--how to indentify poisonous plants, insects and animals--how to survive unusual conditions, such as plane crashes and nuclear attacksThe U.S. Armed Forces Survival Guide is the most comprehensive and thoroughly tested survival manual ever published.

This book sheds new light on the political battle to define and construct obesity as a policy issue. This insightful work will interest scholars of interpretive policy studies, critical public health and science and technology studies.