Monday 25 March 2013

Content Sections

The introduction to 'The Human Planet' book is 5600 words, and most of it is a massive history lesson on humanity. Something that I feel is irrelevant. I will sorten this, add to it and make it relevant to my topic of humans surviving all around the world.

I found it hard to split the content into sections... but when 'The Human Planet' book arrived and I looked through it the content is split into land conditions..... which is actually really logical  so that is what I will do, but I will take out some content.

The ones in purple are the ones I will feature in the book I make

Section One - Grasslands
The Tough Planes (info / intro)
Stealing the Lion's Share
Firepower
The Honey Pact (bird finding honey)
The Arrow of Knowledge
Taming Game and Fighting Rivals (Donga)
Herds, Homes and Horses
Snake Harvest (The people's grasses)
Invading Elephants, Plagues of Birds
Ultimate Domination (Helicopters, Cattle, Australia)

Section Two - Oceans
The daredevil Percebeiros (collecting barnacles)
The Dolphin Partnership
The Biggest Catch of All (harpooning whales)
Ocean Navigators
Respected Hunters (Shark)
Weathering Storms
The Art of Surfing
The Life Of A Sea Gypsy
The Ocean Uprising (Conclusion)

Section Three - Rivers
The Fish Cornucopia (Man walking across the river)
Waterfall Fishing
Elephants as Water Diviners
Walking on Water
Ice Control
Living with the Amazon (turtle conservation)
Angry Rivers and Bountiful Floods
Growing Bridges
Old Man Rivers (conclusion)

Section Four - Jungles
Eating the Unthinkable (Spiders)
Darting into The Canopy (blowpipe hunting)
Outsmarting Hornets
Heavenly Feathers
Harnessing the Elephants
The Death-Defying Sweet Tooth
No Forest - No People
The Curse of no Contact
Monkey Mothercare
Canopy Living

Section Five - Deserts
Dry, Hot and Deadly (intro)
The World's Most Gruelling Shopping Trip (finding water)
Watching The Pools Dry
The Desert Fishing Contest
The Hardsmen Who Chase Snow
Wild Animals As Honoured Guests
Gardening Where it Has Never Rained
The Underground Eden
The Most Glamorous Husband
Aqua Vitae (Conclusion)

Section Six - Arctic
Highways of Ice
Shark Fuel
The Bounty Below
Hunting The Unicorn (Narwhals)
A Mess of Auks
People of The Reindeer
Bear Law
Here Comes The Sun (Conclusion)

Section Seven - Mountains
Mining The Inferno
The Bat-netters
Sweetness From The Sky
The Men Who Teach Eagles
Geladas And Grass 
Animals That Give Everything
Mountain Blindness
Avalanches To Order
Funeral In The Sky

Section Eight - Urban
Out Of The Mud
A Wild Town
The Pink-City Monkeys
Bat City. Texas
Pidgeons in Fantasyland
The Urban Organism
The Wastelanders
Postscript (Conclusion)

Taken from Ray Mears: Outdoor Survival Handbook
Clothing
Kit
The Pursuit of :Food, Water and Fire
Tracking
Shelter

BOOK FORMAT INSPIRATION
8 Books on one box.... with a CD with more information on how to survive 
Leeds University Binding Place  : I don't think I will use here... It's cheaper and will probably look better if I do it myself. I want to perfect bind my books and seal them with a fabric edge.
A smaller booklet will be handed out free to anyone who goes to the event. This will be black and white and very cheap to produce.
The event will have a section for each segment, and a condensed version of the booklets. This could be taken forward to a website.

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