Cody Lundin, director of the Aboriginal Living Skills School in Prescott, Arizona, shares his own brand of wilderness wisdom in this highly anticipated new book on commonsense, modern survival skills for the backcountry, the backyard, or the highway. This book is about how to stay alive-based on the principal of keeping the body's core temperature at a lively 98.6 degrees. Foreword 9(11) Check this Out! 11(2) Why a Survival Kit? 13(6) Survival Situations: How Do They Start? 19(3) Survival vs. Primitive Living, or ``Living off the Land'' 22(3) Survival Psychology and the Importance of Proper Prior Training 25(8) Why Fear Sucks 33(9) Dealing with the Survival Scenario: Attitude, Adaptation, and Awareness 42(8) Reducing the Threat of the Survival Situation: The Seven Ps 50(2) What it Takes to Stay Alive 52(8) The Most Common Way to Push Up Daisies in the Outdoors 60(9) How Your Body Loses and Gains Heat 69(8) Your First Line of Defense 77(30) About Your Rescuers 107(6) Helping Rescuers Bring You Back Alive 113(6) What is a Survival Kit? 119(13) Survival Kit Components (You + the Tool + the Environment = Your Life) 132(76) Summary 208(1) The Amazing ``The drawings and photos are really cool but I'm too lazy to read this book'' Cliff Notes 209