The Adventurer's Handbook: From Surviving an Anaconda Attack to Finding Your Way Out of a Desert

by Mick Conefrey

Book Overview

Combining The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook and Into Thin Air, award-winning documentarian Mick Conefrey's The Adventurer's Handbook draws lessons from the glory days of exploration.

What makes a good explorer? Adaptability, ambition, stamina, self-confidence, curiosity, optimism, authority--and fundraising ability. Though few of us will ever have to face a charging elephant, or survive solely on penguin...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230105572
• ISBN13: 9780230105577
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.1"