“Survival guide” for people who love to “travel” - Lang Son Newspaper and Radio and Television Station

For those who love to travel close to nature, a handbook that provides full knowledge, skills, and experience for a trip will be extremely useful. The book “Survival Handbook” by Dinh Ti Books is one of those handbooks, helping readers learn about safety knowledge and skills to protect themselves, prepare before and during all outdoor activities, travel, trekking, marathons, etc. in the wilderness.

The book "Survival Handbook". (Photo: Dinh Ti Books)

“The Survival Handbook” is a survival book written by Colin Towell, a Royal Navy survival instructor and Chief Instructor of the School of Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape (SERE) (UK). The book is published by the prestigious DK Publishing House, translated and distributed in 13 countries with more than 400,000 copies sold.

With 319 large format pages (16x24cm), the book provides more than 100 skill survival is organized into seven core topics: preparing for the trip, skills on the road, camping, shelter, finding water and food, emergency treatment and first aid. Each skill is vividly illustrated, detailed instructions help readers visualize and remember easily, from how to make a fire in wet conditions to how to pitch a tent, find directions, filter water or butcher wild animals.

The book set comes with many gifts.

In particular, the book focuses on practicality: the instructions are written based on the author's own field experience - a military survival training expert, ensuring authenticity and applicability in life.

Situations are illustrated visually and vividly.

“The Survival Guide” is an ideal resource for everyone: from young backpackers, backpackers, to families with small children who want to have a safe outdoor trip. Whether the destination is the forest or the sea, hot or cold, the book has suitable solutions for readers to proactively prepare, respond to incidents, and handle dangerous situations – including emergency medical first aid such as choking, snake bites, broken bones or cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

The book includes 7 essential survival skills such as “What to prepare before going”, “On the way”, “Camping knowledge”, “How to create a shelter”, “Water and food”, “Emergency situations” and “First aid”.

What makes this book special is that, as soon as you open it, you will see that it is all extremely necessary skills, very clear and intuitive for many situations. It is physical preparation before the trip, what to bring in your backpack, how to choose clothes and shoes. Preparation is not only about necessary equipment and supplies, it is also understanding the terrain of the area where you will go, weather fluctuations, dangerous incidents that may occur and how to respond...

The survival handbook is highly applicable and covers a wide range. Each shared tip has visual illustrations and extremely detailed instructions, from setting up tents, filtering drinking water, finding food to be able to survive in all types of terrain, climate,...

The book provides over 100 survival skills for any wilderness adventure:

- Prepare for the trip both mentally and physically, how to travel in groups for all ages.

- Things to prepare for an exploration trip: flashlight, backpack, clothes, tent.

- Risk of hypothermia, safety in different climates: Desert, forest, swamp, sea.

- Camping skills, how to make a fire, compass, knots, how to split firewood.

- How to cut meat, cook food, find food in the forest, make your own darts, avoid insects and dangerous animals.

- How to call for help, deal with wild animals, fall into the sea and create a buoy.

- First aid skills: Broken arms and legs, bleeding, sprains, choking, unconsciousness, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, hypothermia, snake bites, poisoning.

All shared skill information is vividly illustrated, making it easy for readers to follow, visualize, and remember to practice in many situations.

Colin Towell wrote a foreword to this book, in which he also emphasized that survival knowledge and skills must be learned and practiced in real-life conditions. For example, you will learn very little from starting a fire with dry materials on a sunny day. The more you practice, the more you will learn. Finding solutions and solving problems will constantly bring you new knowledge, and in most cases, that knowledge will help you solve the problem if it occurs again.

The book also covers simple medical first aid skills.

The author also emphasizes that when reading this book, it is very important to plan to apply the skills you learn, even the smallest ones. And remember, no matter how well equipped you are with survival tools or how much knowledge and skills you have, never underestimate the power of nature.

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