In the days of cell phones and GPS one would think books such as this would be obsolete. Not so. Cell phone batteries die rather quickly and reception is still often non-existent in wilderness areas. Small planes still crash. Cars still get stuck in the sand. Hikers still get lost. And despite all the advances in science, there are no new ways to find water in the desert. No magic wand has been developed to make obtaining food in a survival situation any easier. For all of this, the once tried and true methods of the past still apply. Nevertheless, Staying Alive in the Desert, originally published by the author as Alive in the Desert in 1978, has been updated with what information that wasn’t available then. Unlike most books, written to inspire or entertain, this one can actually save your life.