It's not very hard to find. Even Mountain Equipment Co-op here in Calgary sells it, and MEC seems to be extremely reluctant to sell anything with the word "survival" in it, in case they frighten their customers away, I guess.

I think the original scare resulted when Collins decided to reprint it in a new edition and stopped shipping the current edition; some bookstores misinterpreted this as the book being taken out of print.

As good as the book is, its single biggest asset to me is the fact that it will actually fit in the pocket of a dress shirt, so there's no excuse to be lost without it. Many other "survival" manuals won't even fit in the glove compartment of my car; they're strictly coffee-table queens <img src="/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />