Urban Survival Guide (Outdoor Life)

This hands-on guide to making it out of modern conflicts is jam-packed with crucial survival tips and tricks for today’s urban life.

Readers will learn how to discern is someone is armed, throw a proper punch, foil a pickpocket, escape kidnappers, repel

modern-day pirates, prevail in a raging riot, shoot a gun correctly, and improvise weapons. This how-to manual also

includes informative, surprising statistics on likely crimes and dangerous situations, as well as first-hand, real-life accounts of

perilous scenarios and what you can learn from them. Throughout the book, lively photographs pique interest and helpful

illustrations guide readers to urban survivalist master status.

When it comes to survival, Rich Johnson has decades of experience. In the military, he was a paratrooper and demolition sergeant for the US Army Special Forces. In civilian life, he served as a Coast Guard Auxiliary instructor, and was an EMT and a fire fighter for a volunteer fire and ambulance department. In his off hours, he has excelled as an advanced SCUBA diver, a sailor, and a backcountry skier. He specializes in urban survival, emergency preparedness, and primitive living techniques, and spent a year surviving in the desert wilderness with his wife and small children—part of which involved living in a cave and eating bugs (or anything else that moved). He’s written extensively on survival topics for Outdoor Life and is the author of Rich Johnson’s Guide to Wilderness Survival.