Chris Ryan's Ultimate Survival Guide

As a soldier in the SAS for ten years, Chris Ryan won renown for his epic escape and evasion across the Iraqi desert during the first Gulf War. A triumph of guts and determination, Ryan pulled through by applying his SAS training to the most extreme survival situation imaginable.Now in Chris Ryan's Ultimate Survival Guide he shows exactly what it is one has to do to survive the most unforgiving territories on earth. From the desert and rainforest to the arctic tundra and urban survival, Ryan shows how to keep a clear head, even when exhausted and malnourished, how to develop mental toughness by setting goals and addressing the main threats to life, and shares his expertise from the basics, (right down to the colour of your sleeping bag), to matters of life and death; how to find water, navigation, surviving injures, finding shelter, evading capture and what to do if you're found.'Survival means doing what you have to do in order to live, and sometimes that means thinking smart rather than working hard.'This is the comprehensive, exhaustive guide to survival wherever and whoever you are - told by our best-loved SAS hero.