Grab & Go

When it goes wrong, know what to do.

A car slides off a quiet road in a snowstorm. A river bursts its banks in the night. A storm knocks out the power for four days. The people who come through best are the ones who thought about it before it happened, and had a few simple things with them.

Grab & Go is a plain-speaking, full-colour survival guide built to live in your glovebox or the top of your grab bag. Ten short chapters, numbered steps you can follow with cold hands, and over 75 colour illustrations that show you exactly how.

Inside you'll learn how to:

• Pack a car kit, a 72-hour bug-out bag and a get-home bag that actually work
• Find water and make it safe to drink
• Light a fire in the wet and build a shelter with or without a tarp
• Give CPR, stop severe bleeding and treat burns, hypothermia and heatstroke
• Survive a breakdown, a snowdrift, a skid or a car going into water
• Navigate without a phone and signal so rescuers find you
• Cope with power cuts, floods, storms, snow and evacuation
• Tie the knots you will actually use

It also includes checklists for every kit, a family emergency plan, an emergency info card, a one-page quick reference and a full index. Keep it in the car. You'll be glad you did.