Survival Hacks: Over 200 Ways to Use Everyday Items for Wilderness Survival (Life Hacks Series)

Interesting book, great info and great read. Helpful hints.

Some of the things in this book would never crossed my mind . Wrote good and with pictures and easy to understand how to do the things it talks about. Good to have around, when things go bad , not if , but when

I have to preface my review of every new book I purchase on Amazon as being a crapshoot. You never know if some dumkoff at the fulfillment center will be chucking your book in a bag or all loosey goosey in a box. Then there is the possibility of another dumkoff loading the delivery truck in such a way that only leaves your brand new book vulnerable to (further?) bending or creasing. I only bit the bullet this time because this book came down to a good price. B+N does a MUCH better job in shipping and delivering books in great condition everytime. Keep that in mind if you like gifting yourself or other with mint condition reading. ANYWAY, I really liked this book because I don't own a big survival library compared to all the videos/information I save on YouTube playlists online. The entries in Survival Hacks are short and sweet. I also found a number of projects I've been interested in trying for awhile to advance my survival skills. I would say this book is good for kids that read on their own. If you don't mind maybe having to explain what a non-lubricated condom is. 1 star off for some goofy and unrealistic entries, drawings that could have been better to depict the project or instruction being introduced, and having zero photos or drawings attached to others. Sometimes it was hard to visualize what was being explained with nothing visual to reference. With some of these entries, a webpage or video link address was included for further investigation, so that was an offset. I like Creek and enjoy the videos he's put out there. He's likable and his presentation skills are good. I had signed up for his free online program and follow up emails awhile back, but my I just couldn't keep up. That's not a Creek thing, it's a Me thing. As I recall, the content I did open up and peruse was good, useful, and easy to consume. I think Survival Hacks is definitely worth having in your survival library if you're in that beginner-to-moderate survival skills learning stage. I lean more towards moderate level. I currently have a ton of post it tabs marking all the projects and info I'd like to go back to soon after completing my read. I actually made two 2-liter Rain Collectors today (page 58, just waiting on a workable rain now) and am itching to do the Trash Bottle Solar Distiller (page 54) once things warm up. A couple of brand new to me projects are the Twisted Paracord Perimeter Alarm (page 169) and using crushed black walnuts in water to get lots of fishing bait (page 117). I did skip a lot of the animal / wild game stuff because I am too lazy for, and grossed out by, all that.

Review “Survival Hacks: Over 200 Ways to use everyday items for Wilderness Survival Creek Stewart “Survival Hacks” by Creek Stewart is one of the most useful, simple, real survival books I have seen. Every one of the 200 hacks is something you can use for alternate purposes to improve your chance of survival your quality of life when surviving. Creek divides his book into chapters 1) Shelter 2) Water 3) Fire 4) food 5) staying healthy, 6) gear 7) forward movement 8) every day carry. The book is one long series of simple, inexpensive, alternate means of successfully achieving success in each of these critical areas. For example: easy ways to make tinder. Bike tube slingshot. Bow from skis. Shipping envelopes for water proof stuff sacks. drinking straws filled with petroleum jelly cotton balls. The list goes on and on. This book is not for the beginner prepper as basic knowledge and basic gear are still necessary. For the preppers: Think into the future. How long will your best prepared bug out bag last and keep you going. These are ways to extend that time period, and enable you to take advantage of the debris of the post SHTF environment while developing a long, long term survival set up in the real SHTF world. These are ways to make your life more comfortable and easier with the stuff you will find out there in the post SHTF urban or wilderness environment. For the wilderness survivalist: These are tricks you can prepare at home and take with you to make your wilderness trek easier and more comfortable. These are things you can stuff into your “possibles bag” to save you when you get lost. Or, if you want to follow Tom Brown (last chapter of “The Tracker”) entering the woods truly and literally naked except for a knife, these tricks will help you understand what you need to do to survive a full year of 4 hard seasons alone. Great Book, Creek. Truly useful and practical.

Wonderful book to start with.

This book is so educational and informative. I love that there is a picture on every page and every item is very well explained. Highly recommend for campers or survivalists!

Great book

The title clearly says, “Survival Hacks: Over 200 ways to use everyday items for Wilderness Survival.” Most of the “hacks” cannot be used for wilderness survival. The majority of these “hacks” could be used in a suburban or urban environment when the grid is down, however, not in the wilderness survival situation. For instance, the slingshot whisker biscuit, how many of you carry a paintbrush in your backpack or bug-out-bag? The hobo candle heater, who carries terra cotta flower pots with them into the wilderness. The shelf bracket stove; how many carry metal shelf brackets into the wilderness. The brick rocket stove; how many of you are willing to carry bricks into the wilderness in order to utilize this wilderness survival “hack?” How about the pallet shelter, who is going to carry pallets into the wilderness to make a shelter. In addition, how many of you have tried to take apart a pallet. You need the right tools and you need heavy tools. These are just a few of the “hacks” which don’t make sense in a wilderness survival situation. A lot of the “hacks” in this book require prior planning and tools which most people do not carry into the wilderness. While this book does have a lot of interesting “hacks” which can be utilized in an urban or suburban environment with the proper tools, this is not meant for wilderness survival. If the author wishes to promote wilderness survival, then my suggestion would be for him to really re-evaluate every hack in this book and make sure it is something that can actually be used in the wilderness. In all honesty, I cannot recommend this book for wilderness survival as quite a few “hacks” in this book are very impractical for that genre. For those of you who do not agree, this is only my opinion and nothing more. Thank you for reading and good luck.

Il libro in se è carino ma è in bianco e nero, senza tante illustrazioni (essenziali per un manuale pratico) e in inglese. Inoltre di tutti i "trucchetti" che ci sono, tanti sono ovvi o altri inutili. Quelli davvero utili e praticabili in casi di emergenza sono una ventina. Il libro ve lo consiglio lo stesso ma non aspettatevi un manuale serio. Anche il costo è troppo elevato per quello che offre

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Been bushcrafting for half a lifetime. I thought I knew all the tricks. Whoever said in their review they have heard all of this before isn't being honest. If they are, they grew up eating grubs and making epoxy out of charcoal and pine resin as a toddler. What, you haven't heard of making your own bush epoxy? Neither had I. Plus, the part about wearing nylons to keep ticks off your lower body. Why didn't I think about that? No way ticks make it through that barrier. And those are just TWO of the many little tips, insights and techniques in this book. Well worth the price. Might save your butt one day.