Learn what to do when the tarantula crawls up your leg, the riptide pulls you out to sea, the sandstorm's headed your way, or your camel just won't stop. Find out how to pass a bribe, remove leeches, climb out of a well, survive a fall onto subway tracks, catch a fish without a rod, and preserve a severed limb. Hands-on step-by-step instructions show how to survive these and dozens of other adventures. An appendix of travel tips, useful phrases, and features to avoid will also ensure a safe return. Because you just never know...

Piven and Borgenicht have devised 40 new scenarios of potential disaster. Readers will learn how to use their people skills to bribe an official or to foil a UFO abduction. There is useful instruction for walking on a broken leg, building an igloo and escaping a blaze in a high-rise hotel. Written with down-to-earth guy-humor, this book feeds the atavistic soul. You may never be stalked by a lion or caught at sea in a perfect storm, but a calm mind and resourcefulness will always serve you well. This book includes practical features such as diagrams for international sign language, emergency phrases, packing advice, air-travel tips and surefire ways to beat jet lag.