Wilderness survival : living off the land with the clothes on your back and the knife on your belt

Presents an overview of the precautions to take when exploring back-country areas and provides information on the skills necessary for surviving the first days if stranded, including finding and preparing shelters, finding water, making fires, and signaling for help. MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict Contents 8 Acknowledgments 10 Introduction 12 A Journal of Wilderness Survival 16 Essays 17 Survival 17 Traps 21 Shelter 36 Making Camp 43 Meal Preparation and Cooking 51 Eat a Balanced Diet in the Woods 59 Carcass Care 65 Working with Pitch 79 Bone Hooks 83 Trout Hunting 88 Canteens 99 Stalking and Hunting 106 Preserving and Storing Food 112 Cooking Containers 122 Tipi Fires 127 Rock Boiling 130 Liquids,Water Gathering, and Purification 133 Stone Pecking 137 Fire Making with the Bow and Drill 143 Hunting Tools 168 Camouflage 183 Baskets 188 Acorn Flour 199 Cordage 209 Hygiene 219 Rawhide and Sinew 232 Epilogue 246 Appendix: Wilderness Living and Survival Schools 252 Index 264 A 264 B 264 C 265 D 265 E 266 F 266 G 266 H 266 I 267 J 267 K 267 L 267 M 267 N 268 O 268 P 268 Q 268 R 268 S 269 T 270 U 270 V 271 W 271 Y 271 Do you have what it takes? You're alone in the wilderness with nothing but a knife and the clothes on your back. Will you survive? Do you have the skills to feed, clothe, and protect yourself? Mark Elbroch, a master tracker, and Mike Pewtherer, a woodland skills educator, put those questions to the test when they embarked on a 46-day, unprovisioned, unequipped journey into the dense wilderness of the northeastern United States. Wilderness Survival is their highly practical and uniquely observant introduction to survival in the deep woods. Mark and Mike tested generally accepted truths, questioned conventional solutions, and distilled the best techniques for making fire, obtaining shelter, finding water, and hunting with primitive weapons. They give you: - A life-saving handbook of survival skills that explores man's place in the natural world - The secret to surviving in the wilderness as part of nature--not its adversary - Explanations of more than 30 wilderness survival skills, including hunting and gathering food, fashioning tools, and preserving and storing food A journal of wilderness survival / by Mark Elbroch -- Essays / by Mike Pewtherer -- Survival -- Traps -- Shelter -- Making camp -- Meal preparation and cooking -- Eat a balanced diet in the woods -- Carcass care -- Working with pitch -- Bone hooks -- Trout hunting -- Canteens -- Stalking and hunting -- Preserving and storing food -- Cooking containers -- Tipi fires -- Rock boiling -- Liquids, water gathering, and purification -- Stone pecking -- Fire making with the bow and drill -- Hunting tools -- Camouflage -- Baskets -- Acorn flour -- Cordage -- Hygiene -- Rawhide and sinew.