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How to avoid being killed in a war zone / Rosie Garthwaite.
LIBRA GF86 .G37 2011
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Garthwaite, Rosie.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Survival--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Survival.
- War correspondents.
- Reporters and reporting.
- Journalists.
- Adventure and adventurers.
- Survival--Anecdotes.
- Travel--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Travel.
- Adventure and adventurers--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Journalists--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Reporters and reporting--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- War correspondents--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Journalists--Anecdotes.
- Reporters and reporting--Anecdotes.
- War correspondents--Anecdotes.
- Genre:
- Handbooks and manuals.
- Anecdotes.
- Physical Description:
- 304 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Bloomsbury, 2011.
- Summary:
- "Frostbite, minefields, war, tsunami, flying bullets -- whatever you might face on your travels, this is your essential survival guide. Since her first assignment in war-torn Basra, Rosie Garthwaite has been gathering practical advice on how to get by in war zones and other dangerous destinations from fellow journalists and operators."--Publisher's description.
- Contents:
- Planning, preparing and arriving
- Avoiding misunderstanding
- Getting around in a dangerous place
- Coping with gunfire, bombings and missiles
- Keeping safe in a crowd, protest or riot
- First aid and emergency medicine
- Feeding yourself under fire
- Avoiding trouble in sex, love and war
- Surviving extremes
- Staying fit and beating stress
- Surviving with and without weapons
- Surviving landmines, IEDs and chemical perils
- Suriving a kidnapping
- Surviving in potential trouble spots
- Arming yourself against trauma.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John Penman Wood Library Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781608195855
- 1608195856
- 9789992142639
- 9992142634
- 9781408816820
- 1408816822
- OCLC:
- 682894354
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