Tight Spot Real-Time Guide for Wilderness Survival by Larry L. Hanson

This isn’t just a generic survival book; it’s tailored for portability, immediacy, and reliability; some customers have called it “life insurance” for outdoor enthusiasts. 

Customer Reviews: 

“I must say this is the best little guide out there, it is so compact and light you can slip it in your backpack… and hardly even notice it. Yet it is so loaded with critical information on the most important areas, especially if you find yourself in a ‘tight spot’.”

“I have found it extremely useful to have a guide that will keep me calm and help me solve emergencies with sound advice and information. Don’t be caught in an emergency situation without the information you will need. Buy this guide!”

To a panicked mind, a comprehensive survival guide is only useful if you have it with you (or you have a photographic memory)—to always have it with you, it must be compact, lightweight, and durable. The Tight Spot Real-Time Guide for Wilderness Survival meets those challenges, and more, as the most practical and comprehensive portable wilderness survival guide. Meticulously designed and logically organized, this guide is entirely focused on the most important thing — saving your life, in real time.

• TRIED AND TESTED: Based on 40+ years of wilderness experience, 12 years teaching wilderness skills as a scoutmaster, and extensive research into lost person behavior and outdoor emergencies.
  
• COMPREHENSIVE: The equivalent of 60 pages of condensed instructions, with 29 illustrations, tables, and flowcharts, organized around real-world survival priorities. No theatrical survival myths—it’s all about evidence-based, step-by-step actions.
  
• COMPACT & DURABLE: Waterproof and durable, this guide is pocket-sized when folded, poster-sized when opened, and weighs just 36 grams (1.27 ounces)—ideal for any backpack, glove box, purse, pocket, or emergency kit—perfect for hikers, campers, hunters, or anyone who ventures into the outdoors.
  
• COVERS reorientation, scouting, navigation, first aid, signaling, shelter, fire, water, food, self-control, motivation, improvisation, endurance, etc.
  
• INNOVATIVE “real-time” design sequences priorities logically, from the moment you’re in trouble to resolution.

About the Author: Born in the Wasatch Range Larry Hanson has spent 40 years exploring the outdoors across the U.S. and Europe, learning and teaching outdoor skills and gaining survival experience, with twelve years as a wilderness skills and survival instructor to both adult leaders and youth. He created this guide to fill the need for comprehensive, no-nonsense, compact, reliable, real-time, life-saving instructions for any tight spot.