How to Stay Alive in the Woods: A Complete Guide to Food, Shelter and Self-preservation: A Complete Guide to Food, Shelter and Self-Preservation Anywhere - Hardcover

Angier, Bradford

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1579122213 ISBN 13: 9781579122218

Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal, 2002

Synopsis

HOW TO STAY ALIVE IN THE WOODS is a practical, readable-and potentially indispensable-manual for anyone venturing into the great outdoors. Broken down into four essential sections, Sustenance, Warmth, Orientation and Safety, this enlightening guide reveals how to catch game without a gun, what plants to eat (full-color illustrations of these make identification simple), how to build a warm shelter, make clothing, protect yourself and signal for help. Detailed illustrations and expanded instructions, newly commissioned for this deluxe edition, offer crucial information at a glance, making How to Stay Alive in the Woods truly a lifesaver.

About this title

Synopsis:

This is the classic survival annual, now updated, re-illustrated and published for the first time in a Jungle-proof rubber khaki cover. Anyone who spends time in the wild: walkers, orienteerers, climbers, hunters: can suddenly be dependent upon his or her own resources to survive. This book offers serious tips and techniques that make starvation in the wilderness virtually impossible when you become lost or stranded, using only the resources of Mother Nature. Sustenance; Science of Staying Alive; Edible Vegetation Identification Guide; Trapping; Thirst; Warmth; Facts of Lighting Fires; Shelter for the Making; Wilderness Homes; Clothing; Orientation; Staying Found; Knowing Where You Are; Camping; Signalling; Lost in the Woods; Safety; Getting Out of Trouble; Emergency First Aid; Backwoods Medicine; Survival Kit; Detailed technical illustrations show readers exactly what they need to identify and to make: edible foods, simple traps, lean-to constructions, fire-building techniques, emergency signals, navigation methods...

About the Author:

Bradford Angier (1910 - 1997) was a wilderness survivalist and the author of numerous best-selling books on nature, survival, and living off the land.

About this edition

• Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1579122213
• ISBN 13: 9781579122218
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320