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* Easy fit in a backpack, first aid kit, or glove compartment * Easily accessible information Emergency Survival: A Pocket Guide offers the necessary steps to surviving a broad scope of emergency situations from broken bones, bleeding, and snakebites to heat exhaustion, frostbite, and hypothermia. A section on surviving in the wilderness offers direction on finding shelter from the cold, what to do if you get lost, procuring water and food, and building fires. All situations and solutions are presented in a concise, accessible manner.

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You can't anticipate every problem, but you can keep a cool head and weather a crisis by consulting Emergency Survival.--Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

Author Information

CHRISTOPHER VAN TILBURG started skiing at age seven on Oregon's famed Mount Hood. An emergency and wilderness physician, Van tilburg works as a mountain doctor at a ski resort. The author of seven books, he serves as editor in chief for Wilderness Medicine Magazine and is a member of Crag Rats Mountain Rescue in Hood River, Oregon. He lives with his wife and two daughters in the Columbia River Gorge area. To find Christopher online, visit www.docwild.net or www.wms.org.

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