I learned some brilliantly simple tactics just from my first few minutes of skimming this book. Despite its relatively brief length, it is crammed with survival techniques. For example, just attach a small, fluffy feather and a rose hip (as a floater) to fishing line for an instant lure. As with all DK books, this one delivers. Too bad it's on the short side.

I purchased this to add to my box of emergency supplies. While it contains useful information, over all, this is not helpful. It assumes too much prior knowledge on the mechanics of survival - like how to actually use a knife or tie knots. The bit about edible versus inedible plants was useless. There wasn't enough information to actually determine what one could or couldn't eat. The illustrations and such were good, but they often skipped steps or assumed the reader already knew how to get from A to B. I will still add this book to the box, but I will need to purchase something else to be supplement as this one is not going as helpful as I wanted. ( )