The Sas Urban Survival Handbook - Softcover

Wiseman, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0002558033 ISBN 13: 9780002558037

Publisher: Harpercollins Pub Ltd, 1996

Synopsis

Written by the former SAS Chief Survival Instructor, this guide shows how to make your home safe and avoid domestic accident or injury. It shows the dangers of DIY tools, chemicals and poisonous plants in your home and garden and gives help and strategies for home security and fire prevention. It also includes sections on avoiding accidents and injury at work and in sports, dealing with travel dangers, self-defence from all kinds of attack from telephone nuisance to rape and mugging, plus first aid and how to save a life.

About this title

From the Publisher:

With the clarity, common sense, and directness you would expect from the SAS’s former Chief Survival Instructor, Lofty Wiseman shares the skills he’s perfected over a long career. The SAS Urban Survival Handbook shows you strategies and techniques for: combating the problems and stresses of urban life for you and your family; making and keeping your home safe; avoiding accidents and injury from tools, chemicals, and poisonous plants; insuring home security; dealing with travel dangers; combating threats from letter bombs, hijack, and kidnap; and coping with natural disasters. It also includes self–defense techniques to counter attacks of all kinds, first–aid procedures, skills for saving a life, and much more. John “Lofty” Wiseman served for 26 years with Britain’s Special Air Service as their Chief Survival Instructor. He remains the foremost authority on SAS training techniques for civilians.

About the Author:

John 'Lofty' Wiseman served for 26 years with the Special Air Service (SAS) and was their Chief Survival Instructor. He remains the foremost authority on SAS training techniques for civilians.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harpercollins Pub Ltd
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0002558033
• ISBN 13: 9780002558037
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320