How to Fight a Bear...and Win: And 72 Other Real Survival Tips We Hope You'll Never Need

From the world leader in fascinating facts and amusing true stories comes a book about how to feed, clothe, and protect yourself in the wildernessand might even make you want to avoid anything resembling the wilderness forever. For more than 25 years, Uncle Johns Bathroom Reader has helped you learn amazing things you didnt know. Now, Uncle John will show you how to do things you didnt know how to doand probably should never, never, never actually do, unless youre in a survival situation and really, really, really need to do. Its How to Fight a Bear...and Win. A new approach to survival guides and how-to books, this book provides step-by-step instructions for how to make do in any rugged terrain. But if youre expecting how to start a fire, think again. This isnt the kind of book that will tell you how to make a fire by rubbing two sticks togetherit will tell you how to make a fire using a car battery. It will also tell you: How to swing from a vine like Tarzan How to land an airplane in an emergency How to fight a bearand win How to perform emergency surgery in the woods How to identify what insects you can--and cannot--eat And lots, lots more.