UNEXPECTED:

How can you prepare for the unexpected? Preparing for expected difficulties and dangers are difficult enough, but what chances have you of equipping yourself for the totally unknown disaster?

Yet these are the disaster that immediately spring to people's minds. The shipwreck & the plane crash or forced landing in unfamiliar & difficult terrain or a war starting while visiting a country. Ratttsss!

This is the reason for this book's existence. There are specialised books on mountaineering, sailing or pot-holing in the desert and the jungle and the polar wastes and reading them will be part of the preparatory research before taking up these activities or travelling in these areas.

Even more important, however is to know about a whole range of skills that can be applied and adapted to all kinds of situations and to develop a way of thinking that enables you to draw upon them to find the solutions to particular problems.

This is the preparation you can make for the unexpected. But it is not all.

You can equip yourself with a few small items which will increase your chances many times over by helping you with some of the basic necessities of survival. This can tip the balance between failure and success.

They will fit in a small container slipped into a pocket of bag and can be carried anywhere. They are your survival kit. If and when there is an emergency you will be glad you always carry it.

More bulky and therefore likely to be left at home, but still compact enough to carry on a belt whenever you are travelling, are a knife and the items which will fit in your survival pouch. *

Without the basics these 2 kits provide, you can still improvise but they will give a head start. Don't forget this book.