98.6 Degrees: The Art of Keeping Your Ass Alive

Empecé el libro esperando encontrar multitud de historias de gente que había sobrevivido a situaciones difíciles (avalanchas, averías de coche en el desierto, perderse en mitad de una ventisca...) y resulta que este libro es tan solo una larga serie de consejos sobre cómo prepararse por si sucede lo peor. El libro está muy entretenido, y llega por momentos a detalles increíbles, como la tasa de pérdida de calor por evaporación (medida en BTUs) de la lana frente al algodón, o el índice glucémico óptimo de los alimentos que debemos llevar.
Hay un par de grandes secciones sobre ropa, kit de supervivencia y botiquín. Y el resto es repetir de muy variadas maneras lo que podríamos llamar sentido común:

Avisa a dónde vas
Aprende show more a hacerte ver
Aprende cómo regular tu temperatura
Aprende a usar un mapa
y varios consejos más que hay que hacer antes de encontrarnos perdidos en la nada.

Un libro entretenido, aunque demasiado especializado para lo que yo buscaba. show less

Besides the dedication to "all Beings of Light," living "within a conscious understanding of our true Selves" and his gratitude for "all the Ascended and Cosmic Ones, to all the Archangels, Archeia, and angels, elementals, and Elohim"... and his characters "Elvis Parsley, Willy Nilly" and others, by the time you weed through all his flakey or cutesie fluff content, the meat on the bone is practical and useful, but lost. By three chapters in, I truly felt like I had wasted my time.

The title suggests "How to survive Fear, Panic, ad the Biggest Outdoor Killers," but my initial survival was against falling asleep while reading this kum-by-yah, lets all hold hands and thank mother earth tripe.

Just read page 209, and you've saved yourself show more $16.95 and the time spent reading it... OR...
Watch your core temp, adequate water, stay dry, tell people where you are going, check your transportation, take a survival kit, know how to signal for rescue, don't take unnecessary chances, rest. DONE. show less

An interesting and helpful read. Quirky in it's delivery; meant to help remember, but it doesn't really deliver for me - seems a distraction especially when you have to memorize the silly names and characteristics of his strange cast. Explains why most people get in trouble in the first place and how to avoid that. How to craft an emergency survival kit that's easy to carry (and he emphasizes inexpensive items). A bit cruncy-hippie for my tastes, but valuable none-the-less. I recommend checking out the Equipped to Survive website for great information and friendly no-nonsense discussion forums.

This is an overview or tip guide for outdoor survival.

For the most part it is fairly easy to read. In some places, the tone does seem to be condescending but this could also be an attempt at humor. Without knowing the writer, in a text format, these types of humor are rather difficult.

Little to no references for fact checking or additional reading are left which is heartily disappointing.

Numerous references are dated and/or regional which may cause confusion to outsiders.

There are a number of good tips scattered within the pages though.

Overall, an adequate read.

2010-07-17 19:54:00

2010-07-17 19:54:00