Book description
How to predict the weather with a cup of coffee and other essential
techniques for surviving the 9-5
A smart, spoof survival guide - to the 9-5. Ray Mears' and Bruce
Parry's advice is all very well if you're stuck up the Amazon without a
paddle, but what about finding your way to a seat on a crowded bus,
predicting the weather with a coffee in Starbucks or getting rid of cold
callers with a microwave? Urban Bushcraft shows how to dust off your
native survival instincts and update them for the modern world - whether
it's negotiating the car park at Ikea, anti-interrogation techniques at
customer service desks, or navigating by electricity pylon.
Harnessing the laws of science, nature and human behaviour, this book
revisits and reinvents the tricks that got us through our savage past
and updates them for the 21st century. It arms you with a caveman's
toolkit for survival wherever you may be - Starbucks, the office, or a
crowded tube on a Friday night - and tells you all you need to know to
transform your daily grind into a non-stop adventure (you don't even
have to wear khaki). Matthew Cole is a TV producer (after a few years
working as a journalist) - his specialist subjects being travel,
science, natural history and movies. What he really enjoys is taking
well-trodden genres and producing them in a new, suprising, entertaining
way.
