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

ISBN-13:	9780071484671
Publisher:	McGraw Hill LLC
Publication date:	03/19/2010
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	288
Sales rank:	215,518
Product dimensions:	7.40(w) x 9.14(h) x 0.73(d)

An essential guide to everything you need to stay sheltered, fed, healthy, and safe in the backcountryOrganized 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, ortundra—in nearly any part of the world.