Survival Hacks: Over 200 Ways to Use Everyday Items for Wilderness Survival (Life Hacks Series)
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“Most of us need never fashion a gas mask from a soup can.... Should the need arise, you’ll be glad for a copy of Survival Hacks... offers tips ranging from making a cookstove from a packet of alcohol-soaked ramen to cutting a fishing lure from the shiny bits of your Visa card.” —The Seattle Times Turn everyday items into survival necessities! Would you be prepared if you needed to survive in the wilderness? Survival expert Creek Stewart shares his cache of practical, easy-to-follow tricks to help you transform everyday items into valuable gear that can save your life. Survival Hacks takes you step-by-step through transforming simple objects like soda tabs and plant leaves into essential survival tools. This rough-and-rugged guide covers everything from small-scale hacks, like using sticks and rope to make a table, to the big stuff, like creating a one-person emergency shelter from a trash bag or purifying dirty water using a plastic bottle and the sun. And you can be ready anywhere you go with everyday carry kits, pocket-sized survival kits, so you're never without the essential tools you need to make it on your own. Being prepared can make the difference when it comes to your survival in an emergency. And Survival Hacks makes it a whole lot easier. Read more
Publisher : Adams Media
Publication date : April 1, 2016
Language : English
Print length : 256 pages
ISBN-10 : 5
ISBN-13 : 45
Item Weight : 10.4 ounces
Dimensions : 5.5 x 0.4 x 8.44 inches
Part of series : Hacks
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Format: Paperback
Review “Survival Hacks: Over 200 Ways to use everyday items for Wilderness Survival Creek Stewart “Survival Hacks” by Creek Stewart is one of the most useful, simple, real survival books I have seen. Every one of the 200 hacks is something you can use for alternate purposes to improve your chance of survival your quality of life when surviving. Creek divides his book into chapters 1) Shelter 2) Water 3) Fire 4) food 5) staying healthy, 6) gear 7) forward movement 8) every day carry. The book is one long series of simple, inexpensive, alternate means of successfully achieving success in each of these critical areas. For example: easy ways to make tinder. Bike tube slingshot. Bow from skis. Shipping envelopes for water proof stuff sacks. drinking straws filled with petroleum jelly cotton balls. The list goes on and on. This book is not for the beginner prepper as basic knowledge and basic gear are still necessary. For the preppers: Think into the future. How long will your best prepared bug out bag last and keep you going. These are ways to extend that time period, and enable you to take advantage of the debris of the post SHTF environment while developing a long, long term survival set up in the real SHTF world. These are ways to make your life more comfortable and easier with the stuff you will find out there in the post SHTF urban or wilderness environment. For the wilderness survivalist: These are tricks you can prepare at home and take with you to make your wilderness trek easier and more comfortable. These are things you can stuff into your “possibles bag” to save you when you get lost. Or, if you want to follow Tom Brown (last chapter of “The Tracker”) entering the woods truly and literally naked except for a knife, these tricks will help you understand what you need to do to survive a full year of 4 hard seasons alone. Great Book, Creek. Truly useful and practical.
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Reviewed in the United States on April 2, 2016 by gt surber
Format: Paperback
Interesting book, great info and great read. Helpful hints.
Reviewed in the United States on April 28, 2026 by BAM
Format: Paperback
I have to preface my review of every new book I purchase on Amazon as being a crapshoot. You never know if some dumkoff at the fulfillment center will be chucking your book in a bag or all loosey goosey in a box. Then there is the possibility of another dumkoff loading the delivery truck in such a way that only leaves your brand new book vulnerable to (further?) bending or creasing. I only bit the bullet this time because this book came down to a good price. B+N does a MUCH better job in shipping and delivering books in great condition everytime. Keep that in mind if you like gifting yourself or other with mint condition reading. ANYWAY, I really liked this book because I don't own a big survival library compared to all the videos/information I save on YouTube playlists online. The entries in Survival Hacks are short and sweet. I also found a number of projects I've been interested in trying for awhile to advance my survival skills. I would say this book is good for kids that read on their own. If you don't mind maybe having to explain what a non-lubricated condom is. 1 star off for some goofy and unrealistic entries, drawings that could have been better to depict the project or instruction being introduced, and having zero photos or drawings attached to others. Sometimes it was hard to visualize what was being explained with nothing visual to reference. With some of these entries, a webpage or video link address was included for further investigation, so that was an offset. I like Creek and enjoy the videos he's put out there. He's likable and his presentation skills are good. I had signed up for his free online program and follow up emails awhile back, but my I just couldn't keep up. That's not a Creek thing, it's a Me thing. As I recall, the content I did open up and peruse was good, useful, and easy to consume. I think Survival Hacks is definitely worth having in your survival library if you're in that beginner-to-moderate survival skills learning stage. I lean more towards moderate level. I currently have a ton of post it tabs marking all the projects and info I'd like to go back to soon after completing my read. I actually made two 2-liter Rain Collectors today (page 58, just waiting on a workable rain now) and am itching to do the Trash Bottle Solar Distiller (page 54) once things warm up. A couple of brand new to me projects are the Twisted Paracord Perimeter Alarm (page 169) and using crushed black walnuts in water to get lots of fishing bait (page 117). I did skip a lot of the animal / wild game stuff because I am too lazy for, and grossed out by, all that.
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Reviewed in the United States on January 21, 2024 by WLP
Format: Paperback
Some of the things in this book would never crossed my mind . Wrote good and with pictures and easy to understand how to do the things it talks about. Good to have around, when things go bad , not if , but when
Reviewed in the United States on April 22, 2026 by John A.
Format: Paperback
Whether you are a full blown prepper, a curious person or just want to impress the pants off of your partner on that secluded camping trip, this is a good book to learn from. I bought mine out of curiosity, there is NO SUCH THING as too little information. I am VERY impressed with the scope, delivery and content of the book. Some info I will never use, some seems a bit dubious to me. Making an ice ball to magnify the Sun's rays to start a fire? The author says he has tried them, so until I do, I will have to trust. But, that is also the coolest part of the book, he (the author) WANTS you to try them and use what you can and file the rest away for later. I liked this so much, I bought one for my buddy, he had it two weeks and someone stole/ borrowed it from him. Two weeks later is was stolen/ borrowed again! I think my friend had to track it down thru something like "The Seven Degrees of Kevin Bacon" game. It is cheap, buy a couple of copies so you don't lose yours! Ok, some other guys do have a few points to make about this not being a 'true survival' book. Yes the author does expect a bit of scrounging work, but I don't think the intent is 'pure survival.' It is just hacks; camping hacks, heating hacks, shoe hacks, etc. . . IF you want something that you can walk into the woods with, naked, afraid and just a knife. Then I would recommend the Bushcraft series. More good info there too.
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Reviewed in the United States on December 26, 2019 by Puffsnake Tinderflink
Format: Paperback
This is a pretty basic book. What I will say about it, having the book gives you a chance to actually perform some of these survival skills. The chapters are small and the tips are mostly useful. Being able to do some of these tasks will prepare you for if and when the need arises that you need survival skills. If you are an hiker, some ideas will defiantly save your life such as drinking from a bandana or scarf. The bicycle tube sling shot is pretty unique. This is a good way to sit down with your kids and teach them how to make things and also learn about home protection if the power grid ever went down. The lip balm ideas are also great for every day use such as lubricating a zipper. Who hasn't had a stuck zipper on a winter jacket? How about using a bottle cap for a pulley? This book is very informative for many idea's and the fact if you sit down and do these hacks with your kids or friends, you learn a lot. Yes, some is very basic but its always good to go over the basics. I highly recommend this book and I even recommend even more you actually do these hacks. This is knowledge that will not go to waste,
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Reviewed in the United States on November 20, 2016 by S. Borrelli
Format: Paperback
The title clearly says, “Survival Hacks: Over 200 ways to use everyday items for Wilderness Survival.” Most of the “hacks” cannot be used for wilderness survival. The majority of these “hacks” could be used in a suburban or urban environment when the grid is down, however, not in the wilderness survival situation. For instance, the slingshot whisker biscuit, how many of you carry a paintbrush in your backpack or bug-out-bag? The hobo candle heater, who carries terra cotta flower pots with them into the wilderness. The shelf bracket stove; how many carry metal shelf brackets into the wilderness. The brick rocket stove; how many of you are willing to carry bricks into the wilderness in order to utilize this wilderness survival “hack?” How about the pallet shelter, who is going to carry pallets into the wilderness to make a shelter. In addition, how many of you have tried to take apart a pallet. You need the right tools and you need heavy tools. These are just a few of the “hacks” which don’t make sense in a wilderness survival situation. A lot of the “hacks” in this book require prior planning and tools which most people do not carry into the wilderness. While this book does have a lot of interesting “hacks” which can be utilized in an urban or suburban environment with the proper tools, this is not meant for wilderness survival. If the author wishes to promote wilderness survival, then my suggestion would be for him to really re-evaluate every hack in this book and make sure it is something that can actually be used in the wilderness. In all honesty, I cannot recommend this book for wilderness survival as quite a few “hacks” in this book are very impractical for that genre. For those of you who do not agree, this is only my opinion and nothing more. Thank you for reading and good luck.
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Reviewed in the United States on April 6, 2016 by MIchiganDogman
Format: Paperback
Great book
Reviewed in the United States on May 6, 2026 by Mike B.