CONTENTS:
Excerpts from The Book of Survival:
(page 7)
PREFACE
THIS BOOK is about how to survive. How to live through almost every
conceivable accident or disaster that our dangerous world can produce.
Accidents and disasters, of course, can’t happen to you. But they do.
Every day. To thousands of people like you whose only really nightmarish
experience was their last.
Fires, floods, earthquakes, out-of-control cars, crashing trains, sinking
ships ask no questions. Winds, rain, snow, ice, burning sun make no
exemptions. Lost in a mountain mist, wandering thirst-crazed in a desert,
freezing to death in a blizzard, the fact is that it can’t happen to you makes
no difference. It is happening.
When it does happen, you probably won’t have this book in your coat
pocket.
You’ll be lucky if you have a coat at all. But after reading this book
you will be mentally equipped. Equipped to escape the immediate danger.
Equipped to stay breathing until help arrives. Equipped to survive.
To live through an impossible situation, you don’t need the reflexes of a
Grand Prix driver, the muscles of a Hercules, the mind of an Einstein. You
simply need to know what to do.
The Book of Survival is the first of its kind. The first textbook of what, in
an increasingly complex and dangerous world, has become a new science.
The book contains nothing but information. Tight-packed, factual
information. No cheap thrills. No heroes. No heroics. Just hard facts.
Which, we hope, will enable many youngsters to live to be parents, many
parents to live to be grandparents and many grandparents to live out,
peacefully, their natural life span.
(page 35)
WOMAN BEING FOLLOWED
At sign of persistent footsteps behind. . .
1. WALK FASTER.
If footsteps still follow
2. RUN.
If footsteps follow running
3. SCREAM.
If attacked give your resistance everything.
Screaming is often sufficient deterrent. But if not, fight like hell.
The object is to stay alive, so don’t use half measures.
Think ahead when followed and choose some weapon to have in
hand if grabbed, from whole arsenal you carry - from high heels
to hat pins.
a. Umbrella stabbed forward.
b. Comb with teeth dragged across underneath nose.
c. Matchbox held protruding from thumb side of fist - struck hard
on assailant’s temples.
d. Nail file/hairpins/safety pins/finger-nails/ballpoint pens/hairbrush
handle - all useful jabbers and gougers.
e. Key ring held in palm with keys sticking through slits between fingers.
f. Face powder blown or hair spray sprayed into attacker’s eyes.
g. Coins slipped between fingers of clenched fist in advance.
h. Handbag with hand and wrist slipped through strap ready to swing
as a club or wield stiletto heel like a battle-axe.
If approached suddenly by man, and no time for running - TALK.
And in meantime prepare defences as above. Say - looping hand
through handbag strap.
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