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A part humorous and thoroughly educative book ideal for the grown-up boy Scout. -- Burton Mail, 1 May, 2010
"Funnier than most survival guides and more useful than most humorous ones, this handbook should be on every man's shelf!" --Country and Border Life, Dec issue 2010
"Funnier than most survival guides and more useful than most humorous ones, this handbook should be on every man's shelf!" --Country and Border Life, Dec issue 2010
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Finally, a book that teaches a man how to be a man that harks back to a less sheltered and pampered age when, without the aid of technology, men had to use their military training and outdoor skills and were prepared for any eventuality. "The Dangerous Book for Men" offers useful but often long-neglected skills and imparts wisdom gleaned from many sources. You can learn and relearn forgotten skills like how to light a fire in a downpour, set a broken limb or harvest food from the wild, among many other skills that a true adventurer cannot do without. Presented in an elegantly designed, but hardy, volume, "The Dangerous Book for Men" teaches the importance of self-reliance, common sense and background knowledge. With this book every man will be able to overcome whatever perils and difficulties he might encounter in the course of an adventurous life.
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This review is from: The Dangerous Book for Men: How To Triumph Over Perils And Pitfalls (Hardcover)
There are a plethora of these books out there at the moment with "The Dangerous Book for Boys" probably being the book to have kick-started the trend. But which of them is better? Well I have only read this one so I can't possibly answer that question but I can relay my thoughts about this particular book.
Basically this is a book of mini-instruction manuals. It contains many different sets of instructions detailing how to navigate using the sun, or how to survive falling out of a plane with a failed parachute and so on. It is the stuff that you'd expect Bear Grylls to know but that other men need not know. Hence this is a book that is best read by dipping in and out of it skipping the bits that you think are not relevant or that are not of interest. The instructions are illustrated with occasional funny little drawings and diagrams to help you understand the sometimes detailed text. Also each section is normally introduced with a joke just to lighten up what would be a very dull book indeed if it were just a continued set of instructions on how to do some such "dangerous" task and then another separate "dangerous" task. And as to whether dangerous tasks include how to darn a sock or how to sew on a button or not is up to the reader to decide (after all you might get that needle stuck into your thumb, ouch). Lastly is the advice in the book any good? Well next time I have to escape from a bear I'll let you know. And if I am unable to let you know then you'll know that the advice was not up to scratch. (And if this review hasn't convinced you either way as to whether to purchase this book or not then use the Amazon `look inside' feature to view its contents and also to see some sample sections.)
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