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$14.95 gatefold paper * 1-58685-234-5 * May
6 x 9 in, 192 pp, 70 Line Drawings, 16 Color Photo Pages
Rights: W, Survival/Nature
"If you breathe and have a pulse, you NEED this book."
-Cody Lundin
Cody Lundin, director of the Aboriginal Living Skills School in Prescott, Arizona, shares his own brand of wilderness wisdom in this highly anticipated new book on commonsense, modern survival skills for the backcountry, the backyard, or the highway. It is the ultimate book on how to stay alive-based on the principal of keeping the body's core temperature at a lively 98.6 degrees. In his entertaining and informative style, Cody stresses that a human can live without food for weeks, and without water for about three days or so. But if the body's core temperature dips much below or above the 98.6 degree mark, a person can literally die within hours. It is a concept that many don't take seriously or even consider, but knowing what to do to maintain a safe core temperature when lost in a blizzard or in the desert could save your life. Lundin delivers the message with wit, rebellious humor, and plenty of backcountry expertise.
Cody Lundin and his Aboriginal Living Skills School have been featured in dozens of national and international media sources, including Dateline NBC, CBS News, USA Today, The Donny and Marie Show, and CBC Radio One in Canada, as well as on the cover of Backpacker magazine. When not teaching for his own school, he is an adjunct faculty member at Yavapai College and a faculty member at the Ecosa Institute. Cody is the only person in Arizona licensed to catch fish with his hands, and lives in a passive solar earth home sixty miles from Prescott, Arizona.
98.6 Degrees: The Art of Keeping Your Ass Alive Reviews:
One of a kind 
2009-12-07 - Truly unique take on survival as far as the teaching style, with all of the meat of tried and true hands on experience, priceless...good stuff here.
A must have book for anyone in the outdoors
2009-12-05 - 98.6 hits the mark about modern wilderness survival, and what to do if compromised. Top notch physiology and psychology awaits the reader, WITHOUT the boredom associated with this type of information. Lundin teaches what he writes about, and the fact shows with writing dedicated to holding the readers attention supplemented with illustrations, side bars, and back story author experience. If you get just one book on how to survive a modern outdoor emergency, get this one.
Snooze Alert!!! 
2009-10-08 - Short and simple, this book sucks. I can barely keep my eyes open while attempting to read it. I mean really, who doesn't know to stay warm when it's cold, and cool when it's hot? I got the sense that he bases his whole survival theory on thermo-regulation. What a waste of money. Definitely ask around and find a borrowed copy before committing to this.
The only survival book on the market that gets to the point
2009-08-29 - I read Lundin's other book, When All Hell Breaks Loose, and loved it, so I thought I would pick up his first work. I wasn't disappointed. No other book I have read on outdoor survival ever seriously deals with the common fact that people die from exposure. This book deals with the specifics of keeping ones core body temperature at 98.6 using realistic, time tested methods that Lundin has used for years. This is a must have, foundational book to read for anyone and everyone who ventures outdoors.
Borrow this one before wasting your money
2009-08-26 - If somebody has ever told you that you don't have enough common sense to know when to come in out of the rain then maybe this book is for you. Or if you are unable to figure out how to light a fire with a match when you are cold then this book may be for you. I could keep going but I will just end by saying that there is nothing worth paying money for in this book if you hung onto the lick of common sense you were born with.
