Product Description

How should you prepare for floods? What's the best way to react during an earthquake? How should you signal for help, and what do you need in your supplies? This book gives you practical tips and advice to keep you prepared as far as possible to help protect yourself and your loved ones in the face of any eventuality. The Collins Gem Disaster Survival Guide provides advice on what to do in the event of a range of natural, civil and terrorist disasters. This book not only covers personal safety, but also explores how the safety of children, seniors and the disabled can best be achieved in differing, and difficult circumstances. As well as exploring physical problems, the book also discusses the emotional reactions to a disaster, and how best to cope -- including fear management techniques, and how to treat someone suffering from shock. Natural disasters such as hurricanes, volanoes, avalanches and epidemics are featured, as well as civil and terrorist disasters including fire, chemical incidents and water shortage.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #109266 in Books
• Published on: 2007-06-04
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

Scottish Daily Record, 23rd June 2007
"This miniature-sized guide (handy to fit in the pocket of your
radiation-proof jumpsuit) will give you the tools to cope with every kind
of disaster from bird flu to tornadoes to mass riots and civil unrest.
Phone numbers, survival kits, action plans and recovery strategies are all
covered in a clear and concise language."

Customer Reviews

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Yes, it is informative and compact but I didn't care for it. A wide range of eventualities is covered - briefly - but the advice was terribly boring, as if created by a committee. The book is divided into 1. extreme weather and natural disasters, 2. man-made disasters (like accidents, blackouts, riots), and 3. terrorism, including nuclear. I dipped in here and there but within an hour I had forgotten any of the advice I read. It isn't the first book I'd look to.

I also got a few other books but they didn't cover the same wide range of disasters. The First Aid Manual covered a wide range of accidents and had lots of pictures, which was good. SAS Survival Handbook, as I should have guessed, wasn't really that useful for a normal householder who is worried about the unexpected local disaster. Organize for Disaster was somewhat over-basic and US-centric but might be worth getting out of the library for a look (if they stock it). The Self-Sufficiency Handbook is mainly for the UK and has excellent basic (but not too basic) suggestions that I found most useful, with sections on recycling, going off-mains including generating your own power, organic gardening, animal husbandry, brewing, and preserving produce.

Life After Doomsday was so extreme I had to have some rice-pudding to soothe myself, but if you have any reason to suspect long-term survival problems and looters/attackers, it is amazingly logical, sensible and practical. My favourite, so far, is When All Hell Breaks Loose by Cody Lundin. It's all about how to survive at home, it's written by someone who is a survival instructor, who lived on the streets for a while and who has practiced everything he preaches - for years. The Lundin book and the Life After Doomsday book were the least boring to read and therefore their advice is most likely to be remembered, and hence useful, in case of need. However, both require weeks of expenditure and preparation.

Very infortmative and compact.
Excellent little book. It covers all sorts of disasters that could happen, and gives the facts as to what the individual needs to do to survive it. It's a pocket size. Recommended to everyone, just to read and become aware, and hopefully, if (pray it doesn't) you happen to experience any of these disasters you will automatically remember what you have read and know what to do.