Ultimate Survival Hacks

The New York Times bestselling author of Prepare for Anything shares 500+ tricks for surviving any emergency with everyday items.

Fortune favors the prepared—and knowing how to innovate, improvise, and make do with the hundreds of survival hacks covered in this guide will prepare you for just about anything. Detailed advice and step-by-step illustrations show you how to handle natural disasters, wilderness mishaps, and total catastrophes with whatever you have to hand, from duct tape to plastic bags to acorns.


Survival expert Tim MacWelch covers situations ranging from the common to the once in a lifetime (you hope!). In this book, you'll learn how to use junk food to start a campfire, harvest drinkable water from morning dew, use your belt to sharpen a knife, suture a wound with dental floss, use a bra as a respirator, and much, much more. If you can find it in an emergency, Tim can almost certainly help you turn it into a survival tool!