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Learn important survival skills from thirteen captivating stories of people stranded and fighting for their lives against harsh, unmerciful conditions.A unique combination of fictional scenarios, true accounts, and instructive sidebars, Getting Out Alive reveals the three vital ways to cheat death when all seems lost: avoid panic, know your survival skills, and maintain a relentless determination to make it out alive. Teaching by example, the characters in these adventures use real-life survival tactics-including navigating, building shelters, finding water, and signaling for help.Featuring tales of being surrounded by a forest fire, lost in the Amazon, marooned on an island, caught in an icy blizzard, and many more.DESC>survival;emergency preparedness;disaster preparedness;guides;reference;emergency;disaster;self-help;safety;security;outdoor skills;survival skills;survivalist;survivalism;survival stories;hiking;amazon basin;hurricane;category 4 hurricane;gunfight;gunfire;in the line of fire;castaway;marooned on an island;forest fire;snowbound;blizzard;adrift;mauled by a bear;bear attack;animal attack;plane crash;power outageSEL049010 SELF-HELP / Safety & Security / Survival & Emergency Preparedness *SPO030000 SPORTS & RECREATION / Outdoor Skills9781612430904The Pulse: A Novel of Surviving the Collapse of the GridScott B. Williams