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BOOKS BY JACK PURCELL

 

 Hell Bent For Santa Fe

The Lost Adams Diggings

Poems of the New Old West

 

 

 

 

Ebook

Now available on Amazon

Desert Emergency Survival Basics

Copyright©2003 Jack Purcell

NineLives Press

 

ISBN 0-9743852-2-0 

Preparedness, attitude,  getting water where there is none, emergency navigation tools, navigating with, or without a compass, emergency communication tools, maps and brief map reading basics, staying out of trouble with locals and pocket survival kit.

This book isn't intended to teach readers how to live a primitive lifestyle by eating bugs, lizards and seeds.   It doesn't suggest you chop down an endangered species cactus that's taken half a century to mature so you can have a gallon of water. 

Desert Emergency Survival Basics is intended to reach those hundreds of people who will find themselves lost or stranded in the desert southwestern United States next year, many of whom won't survive more than three days.  If Search and Rescue doesn't find them by the time they've been missing for a week it's usually because they died of dehydration or exposure five days ago.  This book is 25 pages of practical, basic help to keep that from happening.

Originally written for inclusion as a chapter in The Lost Adams Diggings at the suggestion of the New Mexico State Search and Rescue Coordinator to keep his volunteers from having to "drag your readers out of the arroyos in body bags".  Expanded, detailed illustrations added 2003 .

Text and portions still included with The Lost Adams Diggings, The Myth, The Mystery and The Madness.  This is sold separately for those who have no interested in the Adams Diggings, but still have the potential to become stranded in desert terrain.  Adobe pdf format.

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Email petrodactl@zianet.com after you place your order Within 48 hours (2 week days) after payment is confirmed you'll receive instructions for downloading..

Copyright ©2003 Jack Purcell

Pocket Emergency Survival Kit Thumbnails

 

I include a tube of Super-Glue in mine (not shown) to close serious cuts and gashes. 

Also a vial of Clorox for water purification.

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