by Joshua Piven
How to Catch Fish without a Rod
Source: Jean-Philippe Soule.
How to Make Animal Traps
Source: Ron Hood, survival expert, received his early wilderness training while a member of the U.S. Army and taught wilderness survival classes for 20 years. Currently, he and his wife, Karen, produce wilderness survival training videos.
CHAPTER 6: SURVIVING ILLNESS AND INJURY
How to Deal with a Tarantula
Source: Stanley A. Schultz, president of the American Tarantula Society, is the author of the Tarantula Keeper’s Guide, 2nd edition. He and his wife/co-author Marguerite live in Calgary and currently own approximately 350 tarantulas.
How to Treat a Scorpion Sting
Source: Scott Stockwell, a major in the United States Army, works as a combat medical entomologist, consulting on scorpion envenomation. By his own reckoning, he has probably been stung by more species of scorpion and other venomous arthropods than any other living person. He holds a Ph.D. in entomology from the University of California, Berkeley, and works in Fort Sam Houston, Texas.
How to Cross a Piranha-Infested River
Source: Paul Cripps, director of Amazonas Explorer, an organization specializing in adventure travel in Peru and Bolivia. He has guided trips through the Amazon for 13 years; Dr. David Schleser, researcher and eco-travel guide, has researched piranhas and led eco-tours to the Brazilian and Peruvian Amazon. He is the author of Piranhas: Everything About Selection, Care, Nutrition, Diseases, Breeding, and Behavior (More Complete Pet Owner’s Manuals); Barry Tedder, marine biologist and jungle survival expert, raises piranhas and has studied them in the southern Amazon. He serves in the New Zealand Royal Navy; Dr. Peter Henderson, director of Pisces Conservation Ltd. in Lymington, England, has worked on piranha and other South American fish for more than 20 years (www.irchouse.demon.co.uk).
How to Treat a Severed Limb
Source: Dr. James Li, practitioner in the Division of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is an instructor for the American College of Surgeon’s course for physicians, Advanced Trauma Life Support. He is the author of articles on emergency practice in remote settings.
How to Remove a Leech
Source: Mark E. Siddall is assistant curator for the Division of Invertebrate Zoology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
APPENDIX
Foreign Emergency Phrases
Sources: French: Jennifer Wolf, MA, doctoral candidate in Comparative Literature, University of Pennsylvania; German: Lisa Marie Anderson, MA, doctoral candidate in Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Pennsylvania; Japanese: William M. Hammell, MA, Japanese Literature, Yale University; Spanish: Paul Carranza, MA, doctoral candidate in Comparative Literature, University of Pennsylvania.
Gestures to Avoid
Source: Roger E. Axtell, author of Gestures: Do’s and Taboos of Body Language Around the World and seven other books in his Do’s and Taboos series. He is also a popular speaker on the after-dinner circuit.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Joshua Piven, a computer journalist and freelance writer by day, is a continent hopper by night. He has been chased by knife-wielding motorcycle bandits, stuck in subway tunnels, robbed and mugged, and is consistently served pasta when they run out of the chicken. He is the coauthor of The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook, and lives in Philadelphia with his wife.
David Borgenicht, a writer, editor, businessman and world traveler, has canoed in alligator breeding ponds, ridden elephants in India, stowed away on Amtrak, and almost always gets the exit row in which the seats don’t recline. He is the co-author of The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook, and author of The Jewish Mother Goose (Running Press, 2000) and The Little Book of Stupid Questions (Hysteria, 1999). He, too, lives in Philadelphia with his wife, who is still his best-case scenario.
Brenda Brown is a freelance illustrator and cartoonist whose work has appeared in many books and major publications, including The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook, Reader’s Digest, The Saturday Evening Post, The National Enquirer, and Federal Lawyer and National Review. Her digital graphics have been incorporated into software programs developed by Adobe Systems, Deneba Software, Corel Corp, and many websites.
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Acclaim for the authors’ first book, the best-selling
THE WORST-CASE SCENARIO SURVIVAL HANDBOOK
“Nearly 180 pages of immediate-action drills for when everything goes to hell in a handbasket (SOF editors all keep a copy on their desk at all times).…Odds are good you’ll meet more than one of the situations during your life, and the time spent studying this volume may turn out to be some of the best time you ever invest.”
—Soldier of Fortune
“ …an armchair guide for the anxious.”
—USA Today
“The book to have when the killer bees arrive.…”
—The New Yorker
“This really is a nifty book.”
—Forbes
“ …an improbable how-to manual …but that doesn’t mean we can’t worry …”
—Time
“What you need to play by Murphy’s Laws.”
—People
“ …you need this.”
—Boston Globe
“ …compulsively readable …”
—Chicago Tribune
“Parachute won’t work? Open this instead.”
—Washington Post
…and featured in the (London) Times, the Sydney Morning Herald, the Toronto Sun, and on best-seller lists around the world.