The SAS Essential Survival guides are a hardworking series of practical survival handbooks based on SAS training and techniques. They cover every aspect of survival in the world's most inhospitable places, and have the authority of being written by a top ex-SAS training instructor. Adapted from the comprehensive SAS Encyclopedia of Survival, each book contains information on basic techniques, including shelter construction, sourcing, water and signalling - essential skills which are required in any survival situation. SAS Desert Survival gives detailed information on shelter, food, equipment and firemaking specific to the desert, any mountain area or your life. Praise for the orginal hardback SAS Encyclopedia of Survival: `The most comprehensive survival guide ever written. Military Illustrated.