If you breathe and have a pulse, you NEED this book. -Cody Lundin Cody Lundin, director of the Aboriginal Living Skills School in Prescott, Arizona, shares his own brand of wilderness wisdom in this highly anticipated new book on commonsense, modern survival skills for the backcountry, the backyard, or the highway. It is the ultimate book on how to stay alive-based on the principal of keeping the body's core temperature at a lively 98.6 degrees. In his entertaining and informative style, Cody stresses that a human can live without food for weeks, and without water for about three days or so. But if the body's core temperature dips much below or above the 98.6 degree mark, a person can literally die within hours. It is a concept that many don't take seriously or even consider, but knowing what to do to maintain a safe core temperature when lost in a blizzard or in the desert could save your life. Lundin delivers the message with wit, rebellious humor, and plenty of backcountry expertise.
Cody Lundin and his Aboriginal Living Skills School have been featured in dozens of national and international media sources, including Dateline NBC, CBS News, USA Today, The Donny and Marie Show, and CBC Radio One in Canada, as well as on the cover of Backpacker magazine. When not teaching for his own school, he is an adjunct faculty member at Yavapai College and a faculty member at the Ecosa Institute. Cody is the only person in Arizona licensed to catch fish with his hands, and lives in a passive solar earth home sixty miles from Prescott, Arizona.
Empecé el libro esperando encontrar multitud de historias de gente que había sobrevivido a situaciones difíciles (avalanchas, averías de coche en el desierto, perderse en mitad de una ventisca...) y resulta que este libro es tan solo una larga serie de consejos sobre cómo prepararse por si sucede lo peor. El libro está muy entretenido, y llega por momentos a detalles increíbles, como la tasa de pérdida de calor por evaporación (medida en BTUs) de la lana frente al algodón, o el índice glucémico óptimo de los alimentos que debemos llevar. Hay un par de grandes secciones sobre ropa, kit de supervivencia y botiquín. Y el resto es repetir de muy variadas maneras lo que podríamos llamar sentido común:
Avisa a dónde vas Aprende a hacerte ver Aprende cómo regular tu temperatura Aprende a usar un mapa y varios consejos más que hay que hacer antes de encontrarnos perdidos en la nada.
Un libro entretenido, aunque demasiado especializado para lo que yo buscaba.
