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    Disaster Survival Secrets
    Disaster Survival Secrets
    Disaster Survival Secrets
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    Disaster Survival Secrets

    By Brian King

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    When disaster strikes be ready to survive! Based on ancient knowledge combined with modern technology, "Disaster Survival Secrets" offers straight forward instructions on how to thrive in the wild using available materials. It teaches you the survival skills of fire, water, food, shelter and first aid and ATTITUDE! Let us share this knowledge with you...

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThe King's Things
    Release dateSep 14, 2010
    ISBN9781458194725
    Disaster Survival Secrets
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    Brian King

    Dr. Brian King trained as a neuroscientist and psychologist and for more than a decade has traveled the world as a comedian and public speaker. By day he conducts seminars, presented nationwide and attended by thousands of people each year, on positive psychology, the health benefits of humor, stress management, and healthy living. By night he entertains audiences in comedy clubs. Dr. Brian began performing stand-up comedy in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2009, and since then he has performed hundreds of shows around the world. He has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Texas, a master’s degree from the University of New Orleans, and a PhD from Bowling Green State University. He is the author of The Art of Taking It Easy (Apollo Publishers) and The Laughing Cure. Dr. Brian hails from New York City, but is regularly on the road with his wife and young daughter or at their homes in Montreal, Canada, or Dallas, Texas.

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    Disaster Survival Secrets - Brian King

    Disaster Survival Secrets

    by Brian J. and Victoria L. King

    Smashwords Edition

    Library of Congress Card Number 2001116820

    © 2010 Brian J. and Victoria L. King

    Formerly titled Secrets of the Cavemen

    Dedicated to our children...

    Winter Pence King Molly Jo’alle Potter

    Jillion Paige Potter Paul Thomas Potter

    INTRODUCTION

    Disaster Survival Secrets is a guide to the world outside the safety of your home. Based on ancient knowledge combined with modern technology, we give straight forward instructions on how to thrive in the wild using available materials coupled with primitive know-how.

    Our schools have neglected to teach us basic skills that even the cavemen knew. Do you know how to start a fire in the rain without matches? What the antidote for a snakebite is? How to find and treat water in any locale? How to make ink and paper? How to build a frontier oven? How to catch fish without a hook? How to hunt without a firearm? How to measure time with your hands?

    Let us share this knowledge with you...

    Chapter One

    THE SECRETS OF FIRE

    The art of fire making is your first essential knowledge for survival. Fire is dangerous! It can get out of hand in an instant. You must learn how to light and control a fire quickly in all conditions. Practice these methods until you are an artist at making fires. This gives you confidence in your ability to overcome obstacles in all problems involving living in the wild.

    Principles Of Fire

    A basic understanding of the building blocks of fire is necessary. The air-fuel-heat triangle of fire needs three elements to succeed. If any one element is missing, the fire fails. Remember: spark-ember-flame, tinder-kindling-fuel.

    Place a spark or flame to tinder; next add kindling, Add progressively larger amounts of fuel. This can be done with a match and proper fuel to get the fire going, but there are many other methods.

    Lighters, Matches, Sparks

    Always carry a lighter. Commercial fire starting products like magnesium bars, strikers, and wax impregnated sawdust sticks are valuable tools to have. One of your best survival tools is a plastic bottle of lighter fluid and a Zippo or Bic lighter. It gives you warmth, cooking ability, kills germs, purifies water and increases your chances of survival.

    Matches are an easy way to start a fire. Keep non- safety strike anywhere matches in a waterproof container so that they can not rub or rattle and accidentally ignite. You need dry matches and they must be immediately accessible.

    Keep the waterproof container on your person. The best are waxed wooden matches that you prepare. Make waterproof matches by dripping a candle on them. Do this before you need them. Remove the wax at the tip of the match with a fingernail before striking.

    Paper matches are poor. They easily get wet or damp from weather or perspiration. With any match holder, there is the accidental ignition of the matches within the case. Be careful to store half of the matches head up and half head down. This lets you store more matches.

    Damp matches can be dried. If your hair is dry and not too oily, roll the damp match in it. The static electricity in your hair dries it. Strike a damp match by stabbing obliquely onto the striker instead of drawing the match along the friction surface.

    Whenever you strike a match, light a candle. Many things can then be lit from the candle, thereby saving matches. Place the candle in the teepee of kindling (see TEE-PEE FIRE entry) to start a fire and remove it as soon as the flame spreads. This consumes only a small amount of the candle. Even a little candle can last a long time. No matter how many lighters or fire makers you carry, pack as many matches as possible. So called everlasting matches can be used over and over, but eventually even they fail.

    Flint and Steel

    The use of flint and steel are a traditional way to make a spark. Flint is a stone that is identified by its shiny, brittle structure. When broken or chipped it exhibits a concave surface and a very sharp edge. Flint is found in most parts of the world. When struck vigorously against a piece of steel hot sparks fly off which ignite dry tinder. A saw-edged knife blade (serrated edge) can produce more sparks than a straight-edged knife.

    The use of flint and stone was the most common method before matches were invented. No great skill is needed for their use. Hard stones such as quartz, jasper, agate, and jade can replace the traditional flint. Your knife or steel need not be used, iron will do.

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