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Aimed at those that are in close contact with natural environments, this book, now in its fourth edition and now fully in colour, examines various orienteering techniques, from classic techniques to the use of GPS, to geographical surveys for producing maps of small and large areas.

One section is also devoted to orienteering as a professional sport, a discipline which requires reaching a series of checkpoints in the shortest possible time, with the support of paper and a compass. A useful final section is devoted to mountain meteorology.

Many exercises are included in every chapter, together with their solutions. Attached to the book are two topographic maps of the Istituto Geografico Militare (Military Geographical Institute) on which exercises can be performed, a folder with a goniometer, a coordinatometer and various scale rulers. Software is also available online with specific interactive animations which explain the various techniques and tactics and the use of instruments, with the support of valid spreadsheets to solve without effort even the most complex topographic problems.

Surviving is the indispensable guide to organise extreme experiences, survive in hostile environments, defend yourself from human and animal aggressions, limit distress and call for help.

From making up your own survival kit to understanding how to behave in catastrophic events, you can learn how to familiarise with every environment and with the resources and limits it poses; how to turn every action into experience; how to quickly observe and understand what is going on around you and how it may affect you. All of this is your first step on the way to surviving.

A comprehensive handbook on the survival techniques for predicting a crisis, acting before change kicks in and developing the most effective pre-and post-catastrophe logistics.

While survival studies hostile situations in which one may find himself and tends to be mostly individual, prepping studies group situations in which one’s environment, quality of life and resources availability change.

To guarantee his own and others’ survival, the prepper aims to predict crises and therefore acts before the change, creates or accumulates the resources in advance, develops skills that he may need and, most importantly, he plans and prepares life afterwards.

Mental Survival is a touchstone for understanding the psychology of individual and group survival. It is a clear, reader-friendly guide to managing behaviours triggered by danger.