Outdoor Survival Skills [Paperback]

Larry Dean Olsen (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 1990

Outdoor Survival Skills includes basic and little-known information on existing in the wilds--emphasizing camping skills, hunting and fishing, emergencies, tracking, and more. A classic manual.

Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Chicago Review Pr; 5 Sub edition (May 1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1556520840
• ISBN-13: 978-1556520846
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,076,093 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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66 of 67 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good Information but out of my range, February 10, 2000

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Justin Coleman - See all my reviews

This review is from: Outdoor Survival Skills (Paperback)

Personally, I thought the book was rather good. Some of the ideas this book provides are so simple and effective that you are amazed that you never thought of it before. The person who wrote it clearly has much experience in living in the woods with nothing, though. I didn't find many of the explanations to complete or clear enough. In addition, I live in Connecticut. The author really focuses on surviving in the desert and similar areas. This would make sense, as he was born in the Southwest, but for people like myself, this applies very little to the completely different woodland terrain.

44 of 46 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Survival skills, July 25, 2003

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Daniel Dow (Indianapolis, IN) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Outdoor Survival Skills (Paperback)

I have read many survival books including: Wilderness Survival; the October 1970 edition of the Army Feild Manual; Living off the Country;Tom Brown's Feild Guide to Wilderness Survival;and this one as well as many others. Aside from Tom Brown's feild guide, this book is definately one of the best I have read. I would rate Tom Brown's feild guide higher than this one, but the two together make a great pair. Both cover topics such as the four great needs: shelter, water, fire, and food, as well as weapons, edible plants and animals et cetera, but they both explain different techniques and different ways of doing the above mentioned topics. The back of this book has color photos of many plants that are edible.
I strongly reccommend buying both books, they are very similar yet you can learn more from both than you can from just one.
If you don't wan't both then I reccommend Tom Brown's Guide. Either way you go, try to use your library and the internet in conjunction with the books.

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars good book, November 7, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Outdoor Survival Skills (Paperback)

All the chapters were difinitely helpful. The colorplate of plants in the back stated what you could use each plant for. However, when it mentioned if a plant was medicinal or not, it didn't give you any info on how they where medicinal or what they could do or how to use them. Overall a Very informative book about surviving in the wilderness.