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Desert Survival - Tips, Tricks and Skills
Item # 711630
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Learn the skills and strategies for adapting to arid regions.
- Author: Tony Nester
- Softcover; 70 pages; black-and-white photographs
- Diamond Creek Press; copyright 2003
- With detailed photos and practical advice, you'll find a wealth of field-tested techniques designed for novices and veterans alike
- Topics include: survival psychology, coping with heat stress and hyponatremia (water-intoxication), facts about rattlesnakes and scorpions
- Tips for locating water in barren regions, equipping your vehicle for road trips, desert shelter for heat and cold and improvised signaling devices
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