i got this book for christmas, i nearly bought it myself, but swmbo started growling at me in the shop, sort of a hint :shock: i'm only half way through, but here's a couple of thoughts.
according to "chris ryan" (if that is his real name)
the stuff in italics isn't quoted verbatim et literatim, i just took the liberty of paraphrasing it...
it's impossible to light a fire using someone's glasses as a lense, otherwise casualty dept's all round the country would fill up with scorched eyeballs every summer. be warned that hundreds of forest fires are started by broken bottles :-?
the bmc recommended survival bags should never be pulled over your head, you might suffocate :roll: and you're likely to get soaked by condensation. so you're better off with a space blanket :twisted:
there are a few interesting bits and pieces to befound, ifyou don't mind wading through the complete rubbish. the sheep preparation photo's would be better if they were annotated better. obviously some of the other photo's have been robbed from inet sources, one of which isn't a photo of what they think it is
all the drawings look like they've been scanned from lofty's sas survival handbook, touched up in a different colour and had a couple of the twigs smoothed out.
all in all, a very poor survival book indeed. it's only saving grace being the butchering photo's. this sort of information simply doesn't exist in most survival books. of course you could save yourself the money and video the real heroes of telemark next time it's repeated, then you'll have footage of how to gut a large mammal.
cheers, and.