Surviving the Desert (Davenport, Gregory J. Books for the Wilderness.) | 
 enlarge | Author: Gregory J. Davenport
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Pages: 240
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MPN: 811730719
ISBN: 0811730719
Dewey Decimal Number: 613.69
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Publication Date: March 2004
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 Learn to use your survival mind!!! March 4, 2007
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
Surviving the Desert looks at a survivor's five survival essentials and how they apply in a myriad of desert settings. This approach keeps the reader focused on what his/her needs are and promotes a survivor mind for all the various desert terrains one might enjoy. And that is the key -- learning to use your survival mind.
Since all situations are different, you will never find a book on survival that gives a step by step approach to returning alive. Finding a book that teaches you how to use your survival mind, however, is like finding gold. This is what sets Davenport's books above the others (books that teach desert travel but don't develop a readers survival mind).
Davenport's 'Surviving the desert' is a gold nugget. If you travel into the desert (or in any outdoor environment) isn't it time you learn to use that survival mind!
 Desert Lite January 20, 2005
21 out of 26 found this review helpful
Surviving the Desert is one of a series of books by Greg Davenport, in which the author attempts to provide survival advice on every single kind of outdoors environment - forest wilderness, oceans, the arctic, etc. This time, it's the deserts of the world. I think Davenport's other books on forest and mountain survival are pretty good, but this desert version doesn't live up to his previous work.
To me it would seem nearly impossible to write a survival guide or to acquire vast experience of all types of environments, especially deserts, unless one has traveled them for years and acquired knowledge and expertise from both personal discovery and the local inhabitants. First of all, most deserts aren't at all alike, yet most desert survival books treat them identically. They vary tremendously in weather patterns, terrain, plant and animal life - and any survival book, to be truly useful, must note how these differences affect how to obtain shelter, what navigation methods to employ, how to find water (and which methods are realistic versus only hopeful), how to avoid dangerous creatures, how to negotiate dune sands versus lava rock, etc, etc. Not to mention appropriate hiking gear, clothing, expedition vehicle modifications, health concerns, etc. Davenport's book doesn't cut it, and most of the advice is fairly generic. If you really plan to backpack the desert or to explore in a vehicle away from immediate aid, and want the best book on the subject, try The Ultimate Desert Handbook by Mark Johnson.
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