Emergency - Neil Strauss

If you had asked me a week ago what one thing I would most want if I was about to live through a major natural disaster, or indeed the entire collapse of Western civilisation, my answer would almost certainly have been "Ray Mears". As a life-long urban dweller who has only once been camping, my only means of survival should we lose all the comfy trapping of civilisation that most of us have come to depend on for food, warmth and safety is a battered old Swiss army knife dating from my student days; a pair of hiking boots (ditto); a torch, and a husband who was once a boy scout. Thinking about ... more