文档介绍：SAS
DESERT
SURVIVAL
SAS
DESERT
SURVIVAL
Barry Davies, BEM
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available on file.
ISBN: 978-1-62087-274-1
Printed in China
Contents
Basic Equipment
Medical Priorities
Survival Medicine
Shelter
Fire
Water
Food
Navigation
Survival Travel
Rescue
Introduction
When I was a young soldier, about to join the SAS, I read
a book called The Long Walk by Slavomir Rawicz. It
recounts the trials endured by six men and one woman
who, after escaping from a Soviet prison camp in late
1939, walked from the Arctic Circle across the Gobi
Desert and south all the way to India. After 4,000 miles
and 18 months four of them, including one American,
survived. Their story instilled in me a never-ending thirst
for all matters relating to human powers of survival.
The need to improvise in the Western world has diminished due to
the easy availability of most items required to answer our every
need. Food, drink, clothing and tools are cheap, commonplace
items plucked from the shelves of any supermarket. The real need
to improvise in the cause of survival is onl