This is an up-to-date and comprehensive guide to survival. It provides crucial advice on how to cope with every potentially life-threatening eventuality. Derived from 50 years of SAS experience and training, the techniques and information in the book reflect the essential skills evolved and taught by that elite organization. Topics covered include: psychological effects of capture; lock-picking; tracking; using fire; survival kit; map-reading; locating and purifying water; food from the wild; first aid; astral navigation; angling; survival at sea; frostbite and hypothermia; signalling; shelter; hunting and trapping; self-defence; and search and rescue. Barry Davies is the author of Fire Magic and Going Hostile.