98.6 Degrees

The Art of Keeping Your Ass Alive

By: Cody Lundin, Russ Miller (Illustrator)

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Paperback | 1 September 2003

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192 Pages

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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 common sense, modern survival skills for the backcountry, the backyard, or the highway. This is the ultimate book on how to stay alive-based on the principal of keeping the body's core temperature at a lively 98.6 degrees. In his entertaining and informative style, Cody stresses that a human can live without food for weeks and without water for about three days or so. But if the body's core temperature dips much below or above the 98.6 degree mark, a person can literally die within hours. It is a concept that many don't take seriously or even consider, but knowing what to do to maintain a safe core temperature when lost in a blizzard or in the desert could save your life. Lundin delivers the message with wit, rebellious humour, and plenty of backcountry expertise. AUTHOR: Cody Lundin and his Aboriginal Living Skills School have been featured in dozens of national and international media sources, including Dateline NBC, CBS News, USA Today, The Donny and Marie Show, and CBC Radio One in Canada, as well as on the cover of Backpacker magazine. When not teaching for his own school, he is an adjunct faculty member at Yavapai College and a faculty member at the Ecosa Institute. Cody is the only person in Arizona licensed to catch fish with his hands, and lives in a passive solar earth home sixty miles from Prescott, Arizona.

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This outrageously straightforward survival book teaches you what you need to know, now, to live through virtually every survival scenario.-- "Los Angeles Daily News" (8/14/2003 12:00:00 AM)

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Non-Fiction Self-Help, Personal Development & Practical Advice Sports & Recreation Active Outdoor Pursuits Outdoor Survival Skills Travel & Holidays

Foreword	p. 9
Check this Out!	p. 11
Why a Survival Kit?	p. 13
Survival Situations: How Do They Start?	p. 19
Survival vs. Primitive Living, or "Living off the Land"	p. 22
Survival Psychology and the Importance of Proper Prior Training	p. 25
Why Fear Sucks	p. 33
Dealing with the Survival Scenario: Attitude, Adaptation, and Awareness	p. 42
Reducing the Threat of the Survival Situation: The Seven Ps	p. 50
What it Takes to Stay Alive	p. 52
The Most Common Way to Push Up Daisies in the Outdoors	p. 60
How Your Body Loses and Gains Heat	p. 69
Your First Line of Defense	p. 77
About Your Rescuers	p. 107
Helping Rescuers Bring You Back Alive	p. 113
What is a Survival Kit?	p. 119
Survival Kit Components (You + the Tool + the Environment = Your Life)	p. 132
Summary	p. 208
The Amazing "The drawings and photos are really cool but I'm too lazy to read this book" Cliff Notes	p. 209
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