SEA SURVIVAL MANUAL
by Frances and Michael Howorth

What this book offers is not an A-to-Z compendium on survival in extreme conditions, life rafts or desert islands. While it does offer many words on this subject, the book has a "holistic approach" as Steve Callahan writes in his foreword, suggesting that survival at sea is more about total preparedness to begin with. If one is an informed sailor, one survives. Chapters include all the usual aspects from life rafts to grab bags, GMDSS and other radio protocol to medical training. But, American readers will especially benefit from the British approach, the soberness that is a benefit of the long maritime history in a country surrounded entirely by forbidding coastlines. SC, 2005, 232 pages. (List price $26.95) SW 1.2 lbs.