98.6 Degrees: The Art of Keeping Your Ass Alive
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$14.95 gatefold paper * 1-58685-234-5 * May 6 x 9 in, 192 pp, 70 Line Drawings, 16 Color Photo Pages Rights: W, Survival/Nature "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.
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Super
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I havent got a chance to read yet due to me reading his other book 'When all hell breaks loose'. Cody Lundin is excellent and makes you feel like you can do it. He puts it in laymans terms so even a child could understand. Covers every aspect you can think of exccept Radiation poisoning. He has lived it and uses these techniques everyday.
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You going to need this book soon
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Get ready for survival actions for all of your family and friends. This book comprehensive for this, and dealing with the psychological effects upon us when we must use these tools and supplies. Get can food that will last to 2012, water, or water purifiers, and medical supplies. Seek out friends or family who are nurses, etc.
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Everybody Ought To Read This First, Like It Or Not!
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OK, here's the deal. If you've ever read through one of the exhaustive, "Military-FM-Type" survival manuals (some of which are really great, by the way - Lofty Wiseman's classic comes to mind), you know that they often detail a half-dozen ways to improvise and use fishing gear, maybe a dozen different snares and deadfalls, and several dozen or more species of wild edibles. Absolutely none of which are included in Cody Lundin's book.
And they darn well shouldn't be. Simple as that.
Because even a cursory glance at survival/rescue statistics will support Cody's assertion that the vast majority of wilderness survival scenarios, barring getting lost in the Amazon or something (if that's a possibility for you, by all means check out Wiseman, but AFTER you've read this -- what's here still applies), occur over a 72 hour period or less. This book is about making it through that three day period. That means that, given an average amount of body fat, you could have not eaten for a couple of WEEKS before you got lost and probably still come out okay. Food's just not an issue for short term survival, folks.
But hypothermia and hyperthermia? Now THOSE are issues, as another casual glance at the statistics will confirm. What's the number one killer? Not a failure to eat. Not a failure to navigate by the stars. Not even a failure to adequately execute a figure-four deadfall. Nope. The number one killer is a failure to adequately regulate core body temperature.
The problem is, everybody else glosses over this particular subject on their way to the really cool improvised fishing tackle and blowguns. I mean EVERYBODY. I love the books by Lofty Wiseman, Greg Davenport, Bradford Angier, and Ray Mears, just to name a few. I really do, and I think they're all worthwhile reads. But maintaining temperature is given barely a mention in these works; maybe a paragraph each for arctic and desert extremes, maybe a page or two in the first aid section. And it's the NUMBER ONE KILLER!
What the reading of Cody Lundin's book does is hammer this realization into your brain by way of repetition, mnemonics, humor, and cartoons. These things aren't filler, as has been suggested; they're part of a bona fide teaching methodology. And it's a methodology that works. The book actually affects your behavior on (or off) the trail. You'll find yourself constantly monitoring your body, your clothing, your fluid intake. If you go out with loved ones, you'll find yourself far less cavalier concerning their environmental safety. And if something does happen, to you or to someone else, you'll by God know what to do about it. All of which are Really Good Things.
So, yes, there are certainly more complete technical manuals on the market, and I urge anyone even remotely interested to check them out. But the fact is that hypo/hyperthermia isn't something that should be relegated to a blurb, like treating a snakebite or building an igloo. It's SERIOUS and, whoever you are, if you play outside you're LIKELY TO EXPERIENCE ONE OR BOTH at some point. So start here. Enjoy Cody's style, or not. Laugh at the cartoons, or not. But read it, because if you do I guarantee that the information that's here will stick with you, and might just save your life.
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the best
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I,ve been reading survival books for over 20yrs now and this one is by far the best. . IT take the thing that are most likly to kill you the fastest and address them in order of importet your more likly to die of lack of water then A bear atteck . No matter what you do for a living at some pont you got to go outside if you love you life or your family please read this book
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98.6
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This is a book on wilderness survival, with a twist. The author fancies himself a lively, exuberant, postive spirit, breaking wearisome conventions and avoiding the routine content of other survival manuals. What he is, too often, is sophomoric and verbose. The book could have been half the length without a loss of the valuable information it contains. The cartoons are here as in his later book, which I reviewed earlier, but this time around I found them irritating. Lundin's flippant clownishness creates some considerable noise in parts of the text; but in spite of this, the book is probably worth reading for some.
The author's serious focus is on what it takes to survive for three days and how survival and body temperature are interlinked. "[T]he average survival scenario lasts for 72 hours, or three days. Statistically speaking, this is the amount of time that passes before searchers find you dead or alive - as long as you have someone searching for you." (p 22) So he's decided he not going to tell you how to build a shelter, how to trap or track, how to find North or read a map, how to care for injuries or illness, how to make cordage or skin a rabbit. What he is going to tell you is why body temperature and hydration must be monitored and regulated in order to survive. After that he's interested in cataloging in a chatty, long-winded way the contents of an portable survival kit and advising you on the good sense of leaving an itinerary well-placed in case you don't return as planned. That's pretty much all there is to this book. That and a lot of space-filling drawings, loud cartoons and brightly-colored photos.
The physiological information Lundin gives is given with more authority, in more detail, and in the context of real survival in Kenneth Kamler's Surviving the Extremes: What Happens to the Body and Mind at the Limits of Human Endurance, reviewed earlier.
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