The Essential Armchair Guidebook to Winning Survivor

The Essential Armchair Guidebook to Winning Survivor
Author: Larry Richardson
Publisher: Brio Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011-09
Genre: Survivor (Television program)
ISBN: 9781937061913

The reality TV show Survivor just completed its 21st season, and continues to enjoy an audience of about 13 million viewers each week. The Essential Armchair Guidebook to Winning Survivor is a tribute to this granddad of TV reality competition shows, and serves as the definitive guidebook, giving a step-by-step road map to winning the game. This book examines the winners and losers, extrapolating requirements to outwit, outlast, and outplay opponents. The Essential Armchair Guidebook to Winning Survivor leaves no stone unturned its pages are filled with strategies, tips, facts, and anecdotes from all 21 seasons.

Last Survivor

Last Survivor
Author: Tony Park
Publisher: Tony Park
Total Pages: 443
Release: 2020-06-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1922389056

Only a bunch of heavily armed gardeners can save the world's most valuable plant. A priceless plant, a rare African cycad thought to be extinct and prized by collectors, has been discovered, then stolen. Joanne Flack, widowed and broke, is the prime suspect for the crime. While supposedly hiding out in London she single-handedly foils a terrorist plot, killing a lone-wolf gunman. Former mercenary turned CIA contractor, Sonja Kurtz, uncovers a link between the missing plant and the terrorist who tried to kill Joanne. The US Government thinks that if it can find the missing cycad it can foil an attack to rival 9-11. Hot on Joanne’s trail is retired US Fisheries and Wildlife Department special agent Rod Cavanagh who knows his plants and knows his target – he’s her former lover. Joanne is a member of the Pretoria Cycad and Firearms Appreciation Society. She, Sonja and Rod enlist the help of this group of ageing gardeners and gun nuts to find a plant worth a fortune and the traitor in their midst who is willing to kill for it.

The Last Survivors of Historical Events, Movies, Disasters, and More

The Last Survivors of Historical Events, Movies, Disasters, and More
Author: Robert Ernest Hubbard
Publisher: Westside Publishing
Total Pages: 467
Release: 2009
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9781412798198

No one is more intriguing than a survivor. Read about crazy twists of fate, tales of perseverance and courage and eyewitness accounts of some of history's most harrowing events.

The Adventurer's Guide to the Outdoors

The Adventurer's Guide to the Outdoors
Author: Sarah Perrem
Publisher: Universe Publishing(NY)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Survival
ISBN: 9780789324771

Provides a reference to dozens of basic-level wilderness survival, from telling time by the sun and building a raft to creating an open fire and purifying water.

The MeatEater Guide to Wilderness Skills and Survival

The MeatEater Guide to Wilderness Skills and Survival
Author: Steven Rinella
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 465
Release: 2020-12-01
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 0593129709

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An indispensable guide to surviving everything from an extended wilderness exploration to a day-long boat trip, with hard-earned advice from the host of Netflix’s MeatEater For anyone planning to spend time outside, The MeatEater Guide to Wilderness Skills and Survival is the perfect antidote to the sensationalism of the modern survival genre. Informed by the real-life experiences of renowned outdoorsman Steven Rinella, its pages are packed with tried-and-true tips, techniques, and gear recommendations. Among other skills, readers will learn about old-school navigation and essential satellite tools, how to build a basic first-aid kit and apply tourniquets, and how to effectively purify water using everything from ancient methods to cutting-edge technologies. This essential guide delivers hard-won insights and know-how garnered from Rinella’s own experiences and mistakes and from his trusted crew of expert hunters, anglers, emergency-room doctors, climbers, paddlers, and wilderness guides—with the goal of making any reader feel comfortable and competent while out in the wild.

Bushcraft

Bushcraft
Author: Raymond Mears
Publisher:
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2002
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9780340792582

Popular survival expert Ray Mears presents a richly illustrated compendium of practical skills and wisdom, relevant not only to wilderness survival, but also urban life. The book contains step-by-step guides to a wide range of survival techniques, as well as accounts of Ray's own experiences and his bushcraft philosophy.

Survival in the Killing Fields

Survival in the Killing Fields
Author: Haing Ngor
Publisher: Robinson
Total Pages: 573
Release: 2012-10-25
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1472103882

Best known for his academy award-winning role as Dith Pran in "The Killing Fields", for Haing Ngor his greatest performance was not in Hollywood but in the rice paddies and labour camps of war-torn Cambodia. Here, in his memoir of life under the Khmer Rouge, is a searing account of a country's descent into hell. His was a world of war slaves and execution squads, of senseless brutality and mind-numbing torture; where families ceased to be and only a very special love could soar above the squalor, starvation and disease. An eyewitness account of the real killing fields by an extraordinary survivor, this book is a reminder of the horrors of war - and a testament to the enduring human spirit.

How to Talk About Places You've Never Been

How to Talk About Places You've Never Been
Author: Pierre Bayard
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2016-01-26
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 162040138X

Written in the irreverent style that made How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read a critical and commercial success, Pierre Bayard takes readers on a trip around the world, giving us essential guidance on how to talk about all those fantastic places we've never been. Practical, funny, and thought-provoking, How to Talk About Places You've Never Been will delight and inform armchair globetrotters and jet-setters, all while never having to leave the comfort of the living room. Bayard examines the art of the “non-journey,” a tradition that a succession of writers and thinkers, unconcerned with moving away from their home turf, have employed in order to encounter the foreign cultures they wish to know and talk about. He describes concrete situations in which the reader might find himself having to speak about places he's never been, and he chronicles some of his own experiences and offers practical advice. How to Talk About Places You Haven't Been is a compelling and delightful book that will expand any travel enthusiast's horizon well beyond the places it's even possible to visit in a single lifetime.

Masters of Death

Masters of Death
Author: Richard Rhodes
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2007-12-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 0307426807

In Masters of Death, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Rhodes gives full weight, for the first time, to the Einsatzgruppen’s role in the Holocaust. These “special task forces,” organized by Heinrich Himmler to follow the German army as it advanced into eastern Poland and Russia, were the agents of the first phase of the Final Solution. They murdered more than 1.5 million men, women, and children between 1941 and 1943, often by shooting them into killing pits, as at Babi Yar. These massive crimes have been generally overlooked or underestimated by Holocaust historians, who have focused on the gas chambers. In this painstaking account, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Rhodes profiles the eastern campaign’s architects as well as its “ordinary” soldiers and policemen, and helps us understand how such men were conditioned to carry out mass murder. Marshaling a vast array of documents and the testimony of perpetrators and survivors, this book is an essential contribution to our understanding of the Holocaust and World War II.

Weird, Scary & Unusual

Weird, Scary & Unusual
Author:
Publisher: West Side Publishing
Total Pages: 502
Release: 2008-01-01
Genre: Curiosities and wonders
ISBN: 9781412715737

The Armchair Reader series entertains and enlightens with little-known anecdotes, untold stories, and fascinating facts that make even the mundane fun. The Armchair Reader's innovative approach and witty style will capture the interest of all readers. Inside you'll find tantalizing tales of true hauntings, strange stories of otherworldly phenomena, and bizarre bits of human behavior. Learn how the testimony of a ghost got a man convicted of murder. Read about the fire that's been burning under a Pennsylvania town for more than 40 years. Uncover the mysteries of the Bermuda Triangle. Find out where America's most frightening monsters hang out. And much, much more. Pick up a copy today and start reveling in the lore, legends, and colorful characters that make up this weird and wacky world in which we live.