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Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook How to Escape from Quicksand, Wrestle an Alligator, Break down a Door, Land a Plane...

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ISBN-10: 0811825558

ISBN-13: 9780811825559

Edition: 1999

Authors: Joshua Piven, David Borgenicht

List price: $14.95
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This is a handbook for life's turns for the worse. It provides step-by-step instructions on everything from how to wrestle an alligator, and defuse a bomb, to how to escape from quick sand, an elevator or a volcanic eruption.
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Book details

List price: $14.95
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Chronicle Books LLC
Publication date: 10/1/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 5.04" wide x 6.97" long x 0.51" tall
Weight: 0.396
Language: English

Joshua Piven is coauthor of "The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook". He's been stood up, put down, lied to , and cheated on, but fortunately not by his wife.

David Borgenicht, coauthor of "The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook", has an impressive array of pickup lines. He won't admit how many of these scenarios were his.

Foreword
Preface
Great Escapes and Entrances
How to Escape from Quicksand
How to Break Down a Door
How to Break into a Car
How to Hot-wire a Car
How to Perform a Fast 180-Degree Turn with Your Car
How to Ram a Car
How to Escape from a Sinking Car
How to Deal with a Downed Power Line
The Best Defense
How to Survive a Poisonous Snake Attack
How to Fend Off a Shark
How to Escape from a Bear
How to Escape from a Mountain Lion
How to Wrestle Free from an Alligator
How to Escape from Killer Bees
How to Deal with a Charging Bull
How to Win a Sword Fight
How to Take a Punch
Leaps of Faith
How to Jump from a Bridge or Cliff into a River
How to Jump from a Building into a Dumpster
How to Maneuver on Top of a Moving Train and Get Inside
How to Jump from a Moving Car
How to Leap from a Motorcycle to a Car
Emergencies
How to Perform a Tracheotomy
How to Use a Defibrillator to Restore a Heartbeat
How to Identify a Bomb
How to Deliver a Baby in a Taxicab
How to Treat Frostbite
How to Treat a Leg Fracture
How to Treat a Bullet or Knife Wound
Adventure Survival
How to Land a Plane
How to Survive an Earthquake
How to Survive Adrift at Sea
How to Survive When Lost in the Desert
How to Survive If Your Parachute Fails to Open
How to Survive an Avalanche
How to Survive If You Are in the Line of Gunfire
How to Survive When Lost in the Mountains
How to Make Fire Without Matches
How to Avoid Being Struck by Lightning
How to Get to the Surface If Your Scuba Tank Runs Out of Air
The Experts
About the Authors