Wilderness Survival Handbook : Primitive Skills for Short-Term Survival and Long-Term Comfort

I am the author of this book and I think that it's worth mentioning how I strove to make this book an excellent resource. o I wrote the true stories of times when I used these skills for the curious, o the clear and detailed step by step instructions for the novice and o the many tips, tricks and insights for the seasoned outdoors person. While the table of contents may look similar to other survival books, there are some skills not seen elsewhere and the real value is in the details, the subtleties born of years in the field not only practicing skills, but finding new ways to approach more familiar ones. I trust that all who use this book will find some previously unknown skills or techniques to enhance their own search for experience and knowledge in the field of primitive technology and wilderness survival.

Part 1 of the Wilderness Survival Handbook arms you with the know-how to survive a week or more of accidental exposure-for example, as a lost hiker or stranded motorist-in any backcountry terrain or season and with minimal or no gear and provisions. Part 2 shows you how to travel, retreat, or reside in the wilderness for weeks or even months at a time, comfortably and without loads of gear, using such skills and techniques as preserving fire, building hidden shelters, toolmaking, stone boiling, and trapping and hunting animals with handmade tools and weapons.

If you'd like to attain true wilderness mastery, thriving by your wits rather than by what you can buy from the shelves of an outdoor store, this is your book.

Pack a useful survival kit

Use a signal mirror

Create a shelter from snow, fiber, or debris

Stay hydrated using unconventional methods

Avoid common navigational pitfalls

Make and use natural lamps

Create simple tools that can save your life

Prevent or treat common injuries

Navigate with or without a compass

Prepare nutritional teas

Catch a fish with your bare hands

Hunt with handmade weapons

Go unseen with natural camouflage

Tan hides for buckskin

Fashion bark canteens

From the Publisher: An essential guide to everything you need to stay sheltered, fed, healthy, and safe in the backcountry. Organized around the six essentials of survival (shelter, water, food, fire, comfort and health, and navigation), Wilderness Survival Handbook covers 100 skills and techniques, including preserving fire, building pit shelters, toolmaking, stoneboiling cookery, and trapping and hunting animals with handmade tools and weapons. By mastering these skills, you will be able to survive with few tools or provisions in any wilderness setting-forest, plain, desert, or tundra-in nearly any part of the world Describes the science behind surviving in the wild and provides information on useful plants, building a shelter, and obtaining food and water. A complete and detailed guide covering everything the outdoorsperson needs to stay sheltered, fed, healthy, and safe