Rich Johnson's Guide To Wilderness Survival: How to Avoid Trouble and How to Live Through the Trouble You Can't Avoid (INTERNATIONAL MARINE-RMP) - Softcover

Johnson, Rich

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0071588337 ISBN 13: 9780071588331

Publisher: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press, 2008

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About this title

About the Author:

Rich Johnson is one of America's best-known experts on wilderness survival. He has written survival columns for Outdoor Life since 2001, Camping Life since 1997, and Off Road from 1990 through 1997. An Army Special Forces veteran, Rich lived for a year in a remote region in Utah with his wife and children, staying in caves, a wikiup, and an abandoned mine shack, and eating snakes, lizards, chipmunks, rabbits, insects, and just about anything else that wandered by. Rich then worked as a survival instructor at Nantahalla Outdoor Center and other outdoor skills schools. Rich has been in publishing for 30 years. He was editorial director for books and magazines at Tex Smith Publishing; has written several non-fiction books; written and starred in survival videos (DVDs); and published thousands of articles on outdoor subjects for magazines including Boating, American Rifleman, Skin Diver, Mother Earth News, Organic Gardening, and Motor Home. Hometown: Sequim, WA

Synopsis:

This book features expert advice on staying safe in the outdoors, from one of America's best-known survival writers. The best way to survive an extreme situation in the wilderness is to avoid it in the first place, says Rich Johnson in this refreshing new guide to outdoor survival skills. Avoiding both the rigid 'primitive skills' ideology and macho, military/survivalist posturing, Johnson focuses on proven, easily implemented methods to handle emergency situations in an easy, low-stress manner.

About this edition

• Publisher: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0071588337
• ISBN 13: 9780071588331
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336