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The Adventurer's Handbook: From Surviving an Anaconda Attack to Finding Your Way Out of a Desert

The Adventurer's Handbook: From Surviving an Anaconda Attack to Finding Your Way Out of a Desert

Conefrey, Mick

Paperback

Hiking & ClimbingTravel GeneralExploration

Publisher Price: $20.00

ISBN10: 0230105572
ISBN13: 9780230105577
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Published: Oct 12 2010
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.51
Height: 0.68 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.10
Language: English

Combining The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook and Into Thin Air, award-winning documentarian Mick Conefrey's The Adventurer's Handbook draws lessons from the glory days of exploration.

What makes a good explorer? Adaptability, ambition, stamina, self-confidence, curiosity, optimism, authority--and fundraising ability. Though few of us will ever have to face a charging elephant, or survive solely on penguin stew, when it comes to project management, crisis aversion, or any number of everyday problems, there is much we can learn from the larger-than-life tales of the world's most famous adventurers.

Here, award-winning documentarian Mick Conefrey pulls practical advice from their original diaries and logs, like how to survive an anaconda attack (wait until it has swallowed your legs, then reach down and cut its head off), and how to keep morale up (according to Ernest Shackleton, A good laugh doesn't require any additional weight). In addition to the wonderful characters and stories, this book offers many lessons on how to set sail without a clear path home.

Answers to some important questions, courtesy of The Adventurer's Handbook:

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