If You’re an Adventurer

Complete Survival Manual: Practical and portable, this survival Bible will greatly enrich (or establish) your lexicon of preservation skills, making it the most comprehensive, easily digestible book of the bunch. It is broken down into a few chapters of basic information, followed by environment and disaster-specific sections. When you’re done, you’ll know how to fashion a toothbrush from a twig (fray the ends then make your dentist happy), make a signal whistle out of an acorn cap, and just about everything else you’ll need to endure in the wild. It’s tough to find better teachers than emerging explorers. (National Geographic Books)