The burning sun beats down on your skin. Endless hills of sand surround you. You are trying to survive in one of the most dangerous areas in the world - the desert. Will you: struggle to find help in Africa's Sahara Desert after an aeroplane crash? Attempt to get out of the Sonoran Desert in Mexico after a disastrous hike? Fight for life in Asia's Gobi Desert after your dirt bike breaks down? YOU CHOOSE what you'll do next. The choices you make will either lead you to safety - or to doom.

An “authoritative, comprehensive, well written, and entertaining” guide to staying alive in the desert from a Texas Parks and Wildlife veteran (Library Journal). Remote desert locations, including the Chihuahuan Desert of northern Mexico, southern Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona, draw adventurers of all kinds, from the highly skilled and well prepared to urban cowboys who couldn’t lead themselves, much less a horse, to water. David Alloway’s goal in this book is to help all of them survive when circumstances beyond their control strand them in the desert environment. In simple, friendly language, enlivened with humor and stories from his own extensive experience, Alloway—a naturalist and search-and-rescue veteran who’s worked with the US Air Force on survival skills—here offers a practical, comprehensive handbook for both short-term and long-term survival in the Chihuahuan and other North American deserts.

A Beginner’s Guide to Desert Survival Skills Knowledge and Skills to Survive in the Desert Table of Contents Introduction Protecting Yourself in a Desert Low Ground Versus High Ground Common Sense Survival Tips Car Breakdown in the Desert Traveling in a Dust Storm Area Protective Clothing Desert Survival Kit Food Why a Good Lighter? Trapping Food in the Desert Extremely easy Hopi bird snare Making Slipknots Making a Slingshot Conclusion Author Bio- Introduction I remember seeing Lost in the Desert as a child, and there are just some scenes which I remember. The father of a child lost in the desert believes that his child has survived a plane crash. So he gets millions of leaflets printed and airdropped all over the desert, with survival tips to his son, reassuring him that his father will find him, and all he has to do is survive. Dirkie and his dog survived – this movie -made by Jamie Uys who then produced the hugely successful The Gods Must Be Crazy – is based on a true story. So the first point is, you need to have a will to survive. Movies and reality apart, how is it possible for people to survive in the desert, especially in adverse weather conditions for centuries? How is it that people in the Kalahari, in the Sahara or in the Thar desert do not mind living out their lives in such bleak and harsh conditions? Fortunately, a majority of our 21st century world is still green and does not consist of miles and miles of land with no water and no food in sight. Well there is a slight lack of knowledge here. There is food and water in the desert. It depends on us to know how to get it. This book is going to give you information, especially useful tips and techniques, on how to preserve you and survive in desert conditions, especially when you are on limited food and water supplies.

Survival situations can and do happen to average people, as well as adventurous explorers. You have the capacity to handle these situations if you know and follow the fundamental principles of survival. Desert Survival Handbook contains the basics to get you started: Prepare yourself for actual emergencies by solving real-life scenarios; Increase your survival odds by knowing how to protect your body; Improve your chances of rescue; Make survival situations easier with a survival kit.

The Complete Survival in the Southwest is a compilation of all 6 of the Survival in the Southwest books written by John Arizona Bushman Campbell. This has been called the encyclopedia of desert survival. This book has taken 7 years to write and all demonstrations and photos were done by the author. Each subject will take you deeper into the world of knowledge and shows you just how to get out alive should a wilderness situation arise. This book focuses on the skill set of survival and offers real world experience from someone that has been there and lived it.

Annual desert plant species of unrelated taxa in the Negev Desert of Israel have developed complementary sets of adaptations and survival strategies as ecological equivalents with physiological, morphological and anatomical resemblances, in the various stages of their life cycles. After 40 years of research in hot deserts Yitzchak Gutterman provides a comprehensive treatise of such adaptations and strategies. In doing so he covers the following topics: post-maturation primary seed dormancy, which prevents germination of maturing seeds before the summer; seed dispersal mechanisms with escape or protection strategies; cautious or opportunistic germination strategies; seedling drought tolerance. The day-length is an important factor in regulating flowering as well as the phenotypic plasticity of seed germination which is also affected by maternal factors.

Shares the necessary skills needed to survive in the desert, including digging into a dry streambed to find water, building a solar still, and using desert plants and animals as food sources.

Adventurous children can experience life as a desert island castaway without ever leaving home. With an eye-catching plastic cover filled with sand, full-color graphics, and easy-to-follow instructions Survive on a Desert Island, presents educational information in a dynamic, interactive format. Twelve exciting survival challenges put young readers to the test as they attempt to complete tasks like building a shelter, finding water, making a fire, and finding food. A quiz at the end shows readers how much they've learned. Children may have so much fun learning to survive, that they never want to be rescued!

Los Angeles poet Ed Rosenthal's hiking vacation turns deadly in soaring Mojave heat; his true survival story leaves you with chills.

Being stranded on a desert island is a classic survival situation of countless books, movies, and cartoons. But would you know where to find water or how make fire if it happened to you? Young readers can learn these skills and more in this high-interest title of ultimate survival.