Wilderness Survival Handbook: Primitive Skills for Short-Term Survival and Long-Term Comfort (INTERNATIONAL MARINE-RMP) - Softcover

Pewtherer, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0071484671 ISBN 13: 9780071484671

Publisher: McGraw-Hill, 2010

Synopsis

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, ortundra--in nearly any part of the world.

About this title

About the Author:

Mike Pewtherer has been practicing and teaching wilderness living and survival skills for over 18 years. He is the coauthor of Wilderness Survival (2006) and the founder of Woodland Ways, a company teaching wilderness survival, rites of passage, and living skills to youth and adults. He has taught in venues ranging from private high schools to conferences. Mike also teaches blacksmithing, tracking, woodwork, and ceramics. Mike has traveled widely and studied with native tribes in North America, Fiji, and Australia, and has acquired and practiced survival skills in military settings as a combat engineer, in Australias Outback, and with various wilderness instructors across North America. He has also worked with the National Parks Service on the Wilderness Rescue Squad in numerous back-country settings, assisted on black bear studies, and worked as a hunter of feral hogs in the Great Smoky Mountain National Park. Hometown: Philmont, NY

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0071484671
• ISBN 13: 9780071484671
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288