This book contains a series of measures that will prepare you for disaster scenarios, teach you how to survive in any environment, and help you defend yourself and your loved ones in times of crisis.

The author, a retired member of the U.S. Navy SEALs elite team, has drawn on training, missions, and special forces protocols to develop the skills presented in the book. Many of the skills are inspired by situations we read about in the recent headlines.

This manual aims to help you deal with a range of dangerous situations, from an attack by a wild boar and finding yourself shipwrecked at sea, to deciding whether to try to escape, hide, or confront a terrorist.

The one hundred survival skills, which are based on low or "non-existent" technology tools (because the last thing you need when facing immediate danger is to find and activate high-tech devices), include:

• Searching the house for any intruders
• Starting a fire with the help of a mobile phone
• Dealing with objects that have penetrated the body
• Surviving a snowstorm or tsunami
• Fortifying doors that open outward
• Finding food in the desert
• Defending a ship against pirates

CLINT EMERSON, a retired member of the U.S. Navy SEALs elite team and a bestselling author, spent twenty years conducting special operations around the world as a member of SEAL Team Three, the National Security Agency (NSA), and SEAL Team Six.