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An essential guide to everything you need to stay sheltered, fed, healthy, and safe in the backcountry

Organized around the six essentials of survival (shelter, water, food, fire, comfort and health, and navigation), Wilderness Survival Handbook covers 100 skills and techniques, including preserving fire, building pit shelters, toolmaking, stoneboiling cookery, and trapping and hunting animals with handmade tools and weapons. By mastering these skills, you will be able to survive with few tools or provisions in any wilderness setting--forest, plain, desert, or tundra--in nearly any part of the world.

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Mike Pewtherer has been practicing and teaching wilderness living and survival skills for over 15 years. Coauthor of Wilderness Survival: Living Off the Land with the Clothes on Your Back and the Knife on Your Belt, he is founder of Woodland Ways, a company teaching wilderness survival, rites of passage, and living skills to youth and adults. He has taught in venues ranging from private high schools to conferences. Mike also teaches blacksmithing, tracking, woodwork, and ceramics. Mike has traveled widely and studied with native tribes in North America, Fiji, and Australia, and has acquired and practiced survival skills in military settings as a combat engineer, in Australia's Outback, and with various wilderness instructors across North America. He has also worked with the National Parks Service on the Wilderness Rescue Squad in numerous back-country settings, assisted on black bear studies, and worked as a hunter of feral hogs in the Great Smoky Mountain National Park.

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Mike Pewtherer, founder of Woodland Ways, a company teaching wilderness survival and living skills to youth and adults, has been practicing and teaching wilderness living and survival skills for over 20 years. He is coauthor of Wilderness Survival: Living Off the Land with the Clothes on Your Back and the Knife on Your Belt and has taught in venues ranging from private high schools to conferences. Mike also teaches blacksmithing, tracking, woodwork, and ceramics. He has traveled widely and studied with native tribes in North America, Fiji, and Australia, and has acquired and practiced survival skills in military settings as a combat engineer, in Australia's Outback, and with various wilderness instructors across North America. He has also worked with the National Parks Service on the Wilderness Rescue Squad in numerous back-country settings, assisted on black bear studies, and worked as a hunter of feral hogs in the Great Smoky Mountain National Park.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ McGraw-Hill; 1st edition (April 9, 2010)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0071484671
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0071484671
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.1 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.3 x 0.8 x 9.1 inches

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Nick

GREAT BOOK!!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 17, 2022

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you should buy it if you like the woods!
thanks mike!

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Dead Mule, John

Another brick in the wall

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 20, 2013

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You know, I've read so many news articles of people stranded in hostile environments here in the U.S. where some or all die because they were unprepared mentally and physically (equipment wise). You can't rely on 911 to get you out of every situation. This handbook is an excellent start for preparing yourself for survival. It's well written with a little light humor and personal anecdotes, well researched, and does not claim to be the one and only book you need. The author even encourages readers to read other sources and gather as much information as possible because chances are information may be the only tool available when the hammer drops and you're stuck in a survival situation. Ya just don't know. So read this book and as many others as you consider worthwhile and don't complain because it doesn't do your thinking for you. Read up, practice the skills before you need them and best of all, live to tell the tale.

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John T. Turner

Makes for a good read.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 30, 2013

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Everyone has their own opinion on books like this one. Me? It taught me plenty of survival tips and techniques that I didn't know. The explanations were straight forward and easy to understand and absorb. I would hope that I never have to use most of what is in here but I sure feel more comfortable venturing into the wilderness after having read through this book and going back to specific sections that interested me. Of course, the real way to learn these techniques is to actually plan to practice a few of them each time you go backpacking, camping or maybe just on a day hike. It breaks up the monotony and when two or three of you are into doing this it's a fun way to wind down after a long (or not so long) hike.

I'd recommend this book!

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Travis Detgen

Great Survival Education

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This is a great book to introduce people to survival skills and techniques. It could be what saves your life if you get lost in the wilderness.

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MDS

Good info and a good read

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 4, 2013

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The book has its lessons. I believe that there are few complete survival books due to the broad array of topic to cover and locations. The book covers all of the basics and a lot of the harder stuff. In his book Michael Pewtherer covers a lot of information to include, natural camouflage, movement, vision, bow drill, hand drill, making your own pottery, cordage craft, cutting tools, making baskets, and the uses of a lot of the materials naturally found whether it be from plant or animal. The book is a joy to read and I have read it many times.

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NRSpatton

Wealth of knowledge

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 12, 2012

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I love this book; it gave detailed information on everything covered in the table of contents. Michael Pewtherer gave first hand experience of the things taught and the problems he's personally faced in the wild. In the book he doesn't talk about modern equipment, except what you should bring if you plan on being in the wild, it's all using what's on the land. I really enjoyed the short term survival for its basic knowledge and skills, but the long term survival was great. It covered everything, from making bark canteens, extracting and using tree pitch, how to use a compass with a map, skinning and buckskin. Everything he talks about is detailed, user friendly and he's done it before.

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Robert T. M.

useful

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 20, 2013

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The "helps" in the book are NOT long-winded, but are short and to the point.
There is enough information along with the drawings to be able to try out the advice given in the book.
ONE THING IS VERY IMPORTANT. DO NOT take this book out on a trip and expect to be able to do everything in it without trying it out first. [This is advice I would give with ANY book about survival.]
You need to try out these suggestions and techniques first in "your back yard." In the wilderness when an emergency is upon you is NOT the time to try out something new.

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The Lew OC

Nice Book but too BIG to take with you

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 22, 2011

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Good buck with good basic illustrations but definitely too big to take backpacking with you. I was looking for a pocket size book with survival basics that I could take with me and read at night in my tent. But I'm still happy with it because it's a little more in depth and covers more that what could fit in a small book.

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Not enough Mr P

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on August 6, 2013

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There is a dearth of detail in this book and a lot of stuff that comes from other, more established authorities on the subjects of bushcraft and survival. One or two apparently dodgy techniques and a bit too samey. If you knew nothing you'd be impressed but slightly mis-informed in my opinion.

Skandic

Four Stars

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on October 8, 2017

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Good tips and examples .

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