Download or read book How Lost Jungle Fighters Can Survive written by William Beebe and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Jungle Survival Manual 1939 1945 written by Alan Jeffreys and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2016-10-06 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The army guide that taught WWII soldiers how to survive in the jungles and swamps of the tropics. During the Second World War, Allied soldiers fought to survive not only encounters with the enemy but the landscape they found themselves in. Being posted to Southeast Asia and the Pacific to fight the Japanese meant soldiers had to learn to survive in the tropics, fighting and living in endless steamy jungle and perilous swamps. In this alien environment, men had to be able to take care of themselves rather than relying on their unit to supply their needs, something that did not come naturally to the many soldiers born and raised in cities. To help them, the British and US armies produced a number of official training manuals and guides explaining how to identify and fight the Japanese and avoid their deadly punji traps, as well as “jungle lore”: How to find and cook plants that were safe to eat Which animals and insects could kill them How to identify and treat tropical illnesses and diseases How to avoid the dangers of polluted water and cannibals The Jungle Survival Manual brings together the official manuals and information that enabled the Allies to fight in Burma, Malaya, Thailand, Indochina, Singapore, and the Pacific Islands—and win the war. Includes diagrams and drawings reproduced from the original guides.
Download or read book Impure and Worldly Geography written by Gavin Bowd and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-02-13 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tropicality is a centuries-old Western discourse that treats otherness and the exotic in binary – ‘us’ and ‘them’ – terms. It has long been implicated in empire and its anxieties over difference. However, little attention has been paid to its twentieth-century genealogy. This book explores this neglected history through the work of Pierre Gourou, one of the century’s foremost purveyors of what anti-colonial writer Aimé Césaire dubbed tropicalité. It explores how Gourou’s interpretations of ‘the nature’ of the tropical world, and its innate difference from the temperate world, were built on the shifting sands of twentieth-century history – empire and freedom, modernity and disenchantment, war and revolution, culture and civilisation, and race and development. The book addresses key questions about the location and power of knowledge by focusing on Gourou’s cultivation of the tropics as a romanticised, networked and affective domain. The book probes what Césaire described as Gourou’s ‘impure and worldly geography’ as a way of opening up interdisciplinary questions of geography, ontology, epistemology, experience and materiality. This book will be of great interest to scholars and students within historical geography, history, postcolonial studies, cultural studies and international relations.
Download or read book Fire Fighter Safety and Survival written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Living On The Edge written by Rosiland Miller and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002-11-14 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living On The Edge is a must read for all who are interested in the perils of a remote Amazon people, their ancient mysterious traditions and struggles against deforestation. Revealed is their intimate and exotic lives and their battle against the white men’s greed for their land for cattle ranching. Ill–prepared to fight, the village tribal chief relies on the shaman’s supernatural magical powers. A clever scheme to save the village is planned by the chief’s youngest son. Becoming friends with the enemy’s crippled son, he discovers their plans but risks his life when entering the white men’s world of evil politics and corruption, including Brazil’s president, and kidnapping of the governor’s family. Outraged by her husband’s refusal to see the danger, Tatoa leaves the chief and warns her people of future perils. She also warns her husband of terrible consequences if their son is forbidden to marry his beloved. But the chief, refusing to listen, is faced with a family tragedy. With his mask–making skilled and supportive grandfather, Iasin unwillingly awaits his initiation and scarification ritual, and worries he will shame his family with his outburst from the pain he must endure to prove his manhood.
Download or read book Survival Skills written by M. Usman and published by Mendon Cottage Books. This book was released on 2016-03-22 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preface Building a Shelter Finding Water and Food Defending Yourself Signaling for Help Know How to Start a Fire Finding Your Direction Learn Basic First Aid Have the Right Attitude Practicing Good Hygiene Conclusion Author Bio Publisher Preface Have you ever imagined what you would do if a boat you were traveling in started sinking? And think of what would happen when traveling in a desert and your car suddenly breaks down with no help around? Knowing just the essential survival skills could define your chances of living to tell your tale another day. Otherwise, you could be doomed. You might think someone would possibly come your way to save you. But remember, luck is no different from having your life hanging by a rotten thread. Of course, help may come, but sometimes, way too late. People who make it out of a survival situation are driven by something every time – to see their kids or wife again, etc. But no matter how hard you might try, if you do not know what it takes to survive times like these, you will realize how mean Mother Nature can be. In this book, you will discover the most important survival skills you must know. It does not matter who you are or what you do, we are all equally in danger of finding ourselves in situations that might force us out of our comfort zone. Enjoy the reading!
Download or read book Fighting to Survive in the Wilderness written by Eric Braun and published by Compass Point Books. This book was released on 2019-08 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bitter cold. Extreme heat. Dangerous terrain. Sudden storms. When you're in the wild, you're at the whim of nature, and anything can happen. Could you survive a wilderness disaster? Discover the true tales of people who did, and find out how they lived to tell their stories.
Download or read book William Beebe written by Tim M. Berra and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Unofficially Yours written by Ayushi Jain and published by Partridge Publishing. This book was released on 2016-01-22 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of us would have fallen in love with our best friends but have failed to tell them. A perfect love story is the one which has essence of friendship. Unofficially Yours is a saga of two best friends, RV and Arohi, who fell in love, breaking their self-made rule: We will not fall for each other. Its a story of ten college friends, five boys and five girls, who are all IT professionals, placed in Pune. Sharing status :SINGLE. New city, movies, games, parties, birthdays, disc, Goa, and one rule: No couples in the group. RV admires Arohi but cant say as he has a rule to follow. Group gatherings and instances keep bringing them close. The adventure of being lost in the jungle of Matheran, RV teaching Arohi to drive a pulsar, and Arohis weird demands make them the best of best friends. They create a WhatsApp group called Wish List, where they punch in all the wishes they want to accomplish. Its a tale of broken rules, broken friendships, pain of separation, fight for love, dreams coming true, and a wish list. The novel contains all the elementstravel, adventure, and thrill. Its a fairy tale that RV creates for Arohi. Enjoy this roller-coaster ride with RV, Arohi, and their group. A journey from just friendship to a perfect love story.
Download or read book English in Action written by Jacob Cloyd Tressler and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lost in the Jungle written by Yossi Ghinsberg and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-03-02 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four travelers meet in Bolivia and set off into the heart of the Amazon rainforest, but what begins as a dream adventure quickly deteriorates into a dangerous nightmare, and after weeks of wandering in the dense undergrowth, the four backpackers split up into two groups. But when a terrible rafting accident separates him from his partner, Yossi is forced to survive for weeks alone against one of the wildest backdrops on the planet. Stranded without a knife, map, or survival training, he must improvise shelter and forage for wild fruit to survive. As his feet begin to rot during raging storms, as he loses all sense of direction, and as he begins to lose all hope, he wonders whether he will make it out of the jungle alive. Lost in the Jungle is the story of friendship and the teachings of nature, and a terrifying true account that you won’t be able to put down.
Download or read book Ruthless River written by Holly FitzGerald and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2017-05-30 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning debut; a Departures original publication. The ultimate survival story; a wild ride—the wildest—down a South American river in the thick of the Amazon Basin; a true and thrilling adventure of a young married couple who survive a plane crash only to later raft hundreds of miles across Peru and Bolivia, ending up in a channel to nowhere, a dead end so flooded there is literally no land to stand on. Their raft—a mere four logs—separates them from the piranha-and-caiman-infested water until they finally realize that there is no way out but to swim. Vintage Original. Holly FitzGerald and her husband, Fitz—married less than two years—set out on a yearlong honeymoon adventure of a lifetime, backpacking around the world. Five months into the trip their plane crash lands in Peru at a penal colony walled in by jungle, and their blissfully romantic journey turns into a terrifying nonstop labyrinth of escape and survival. On a small, soon-ravaged raft that quickly becomes their entire universe through dangerous waters alive with deadly animals and fish, their only choice: to continue on, despite the rush of insects swarming them by day, the sounds of encroaching predators at night. Without food or means of communication, with no one to hear their cries for help or on a search-and-rescue expedition to find them, the author and her husband make their way, fighting to conquer starvation and navigate the brute force of the river, their only hope for survival, in spite of hunger and weakening resolve, to somehow, miraculously hang on and find their way east to a large riverside town, before it is too late. . . .
Download or read book All Things Must Fight to Live written by Bryan Mealer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-01-08 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In All Things Must Fight to Live, Bryan Mealer takes readers on a harrowing two-thousand mile journey through Congo, where gun-toting militia still rape and kill with impunity. Amidst burnt-out battlefields where armies still wrestle for control, into the dark corners of the forests, and along the high savanna, where thousands have been slaughtered and quickly forgotten, Mealer searches for signs that Africa's most troubled state will soon rise from ruin. At once illuminating and startling, All Things Must Fight to Live is a searing portrait of an emerging country facing unimaginable upheaval and almost impossible odds, as well as an unflinching look at the darkness that continues to exist in the hearts of men. It is non-fiction at its finest-powerful, moving, necessary.
Download or read book The Unavoidable Hierarchy written by Michael Hatfield and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-08-25 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Unavoidable Hierarchy provides an analysis of why, in virtually every organization, members advance or decline in standing for reasons that have little or nothing to do with their merit. Michael Hatfield explains how this dynamic can be observed and analyzed, and insights gleaned from the analysis. With organizations struggling to meet the aspirations of their employees; ill-equipped or patently inappropriate individuals failing in executive posts and need for businesses to be at the top of their game, The Unavoidable Hierarchy is a timely and important book for all managers, particularly those concerned with the human dynamics of the business. Michael Hatfield draws on advancements in Game Theory, Network Theory, Organizational Behavior and Performance Management concepts to capture and evaluate the (previously unarticulated) influencing factors behind the game of corporate snakes and ladders. The resulting analysis will help you identify how these factors manifest as strategies and tactics within the organization, meaning that effective countermeasures can be derived from such an analysis. Whilst these factors are likely to remain ubiquitous, the author’s focus includes ideas and strategies for mitigating their impact and making changes at the level of both the individual and the organization.
Download or read book The Atom of the Solar System written by David Gordon and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book We Will Live in This Forest Again written by Gianna Marino and published by Holiday House. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When wildfires consume their forest home, the animals must flee--but as the flames subside, they return and look to new beginnings . . . At first, they didn't notice the spark flying above the dry treetops. But then the smoke blew from the north, and the flames began to grow. . . This story of recovery and resilience will comfort young readers concerned about forest fires, reassuring them that in time new growth will sprout and, like the wildlife in the story, we can rebuild. Lush watercolor illustrations explore the bittersweet cycle of burning and rebirth in the forest, following a lone deer as it sees its only home scorched by flame--and later, returns to find new plants already sprouting, the promise of a day when the air will be filled with birdsong once again. As a Northern California resident, Gianna Marino witnessed the 2017 Sonoma wildfire firsthand when it came within inches of destroying her property. Her personal experience is palpably reflected through her portrayal of dignified animal silhouettes and stark, ashen landscapes in the wake of the flames. The book closes with an essay describing her encounter with the wildfire. Accessible information on wildfires, including a list of recommendations for further reading, is also included. Fans of Chelsea Clinton's Don't Let Them Disappear will recognize Gianna's distinctive, beautiful art and appreciate the hopeful ecological message of We Will Live in This Forest Again. Parents and children with a soft spot for the fragile ecology of the forest will connect immediately with this book, and gain appreciation for what it takes to protect the natural world.
