How To Stay Alive In The Woods

Product Description

This is the classic survival annual, now updated, re-illustrated & 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 & 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 & to make: edible foods, simple traps, lean-to constructions, fire-building techniques, emergency signals, navigation methods...