How to predict the weather with a cup of coffee
And Other Techniques for Surviving the 9-5 Jungle
Published on 27. May 2010
208 pages
978-0-00-736573-9 (ISBN)
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How to predict the weather with a cup of coffee and other essential techniques for surviving the 9-5.
A smart, spoof survival guide - to the 9-5. Ray Mears' and Bruce Parry's advice is all very well if you're stuck up the Amazon without a paddle, but what about finding your way to a seat on a crowded bus, predicting the weather with a coffee in Starbucks or getting rid of cold callers with a microwave? Urban Bushcraft shows how to dust off your native survival instincts and update them for the modern world - whether it's negotiating the car park at Ikea, anti-interrogation techniques at customer service desks, or navigating by electricity pylon.
Harnessing the laws of science, nature and human behaviour, this book revisits and reinvents the tricks that got us through our savage past and updates them for the 21st century. It arms you with a caveman's toolkit for survival wherever you may be - Starbucks, the office, or a crowded tube on a Friday night - and tells you all you need to know to transform your daily grind into a non-stop adventure (you don't even have to wear khaki).
A smart, spoof survival guide - to the 9-5. Ray Mears' and Bruce Parry's advice is all very well if you're stuck up the Amazon without a paddle, but what about finding your way to a seat on a crowded bus, predicting the weather with a coffee in Starbucks or getting rid of cold callers with a microwave? Urban Bushcraft shows how to dust off your native survival instincts and update them for the modern world - whether it's negotiating the car park at Ikea, anti-interrogation techniques at customer service desks, or navigating by electricity pylon.
Harnessing the laws of science, nature and human behaviour, this book revisits and reinvents the tricks that got us through our savage past and updates them for the 21st century. It arms you with a caveman's toolkit for survival wherever you may be - Starbucks, the office, or a crowded tube on a Friday night - and tells you all you need to know to transform your daily grind into a non-stop adventure (you don't even have to wear khaki).
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
HarperCollins Publishers
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Reflowable
File size
0,34 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-00-736573-9 (9780007365739)
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How to Predict the Weather with a Cup of Coffee
and Other Techniques for Surviving the 9-5 Jungle
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Matthew Cole is a TV producer (after a few years working as a journalist) - his specialist subjects being travel, science, natural history and movies. What he really enjoys is taking well-trodden genres and producing them in a new, suprising, entertaining way.
