Outdoor Survival Skills has taught three generations of wilderness adventurers how to survive in nature without expensive purchased equipment, instead drawing on knowledge of the land and carefully tested techniques, many of them ancient, for finding or creating shelter, fire, tools, water, and plant and animal foods. In this new edition, anecdotes from the author's lifetime of experience provide thrilling examples of the skills and attitudes that ensure survival outdoors.
Outdoor Survival Skills
and over one million other books are available for Amazon Kindle.
Learn more
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Book Description
Frequently Bought Together
Product Details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
More About the Author
Discover books, learn about writers, read author blogs, and more.
Customer Reviews
|
Share your thoughts with other customers:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
66 of 67 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Good Information but out of my range,
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,
By 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,
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.
Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
|
|
Inside This Book
(learn more)
First Sentence:
As a boy I was filled with desert things. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
hot coal bed, sanding stone, tinder bundle, seed beater, death camas, bow drill, survival situation, water pockets Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Old Badger, Great Basin, Harvesting Methods, Native Americans, Stone Age New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Surprise Me!
As a boy I was filled with desert things. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
hot coal bed, sanding stone, tinder bundle, seed beater, death camas, bow drill, survival situation, water pockets Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Old Badger, Great Basin, Harvesting Methods, Native Americans, Stone Age New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Surprise Me!
Citations (learn more)
This book cites 2
books:
21
books
cite this book:
See all 21 books citing this book
- Survival Arts of the Primitive Paiutes by B. Wheat on page 114
- Survival Arts Of The Primitive Paiutes by Margaret M. Wheat on page 114
- Primitive Technology: A Book of Earth Skills by David Wescott on 5 pages
- Guide to Wild Foods and Useful Plants by Christopher Nyerges on page 32, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Best of Woodsmoke by Richard L. Jamison in Front Matter, page 23, and page 75
- Desert Survivor: An Adventurer's Guide to Exploring the Great American Desert by John Annerino in Back Matter
- Clutter's Last Stand: It's Time To De-junk Your Life! by Don Aslett on page 218
See all 21 books citing this book
Books on Related Topics
(learn more)
|
|
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Tags Customers Associate with This Product(What's this?)Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
|
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
So You'd Like to...
|
|
