Wilderness Survival Handbook: Primitive Skills for Short-Term Survival and Long-Term Comfort

Part 1 of the Wilderness Survival Handbook arms you with the know-how to survive a week or more of accidental exposure-for example, as a lost hiker or stranded motorist-in any backcountry terrain or season and with minimal or no gear and provisions. Part 2 shows you how to travel, retreat, or reside in the wilderness for weeks or even months at a time, comfortably and without loads of gear, using such skills and techniques as preserving fire, building hidden shelters, toolmaking, stone boiling, and trapping and hunting animals with handmade tools and weapons.

If you'd like to attain true wilderness mastery, thriving by your wits rather than by what you can buy from the shelves of an outdoor store, this is your book.

Pack a useful survival kit

Use a signal mirror

Create a shelter from snow, fiber, or debris

Stay hydrated using unconventional methods

Avoid common navigational pitfalls

Make and use natural lamps

Create simple tools that can save your life

Prevent or treat common injuries

Navigate with or without a compass

Prepare nutritional teas

Catch a fish with your bare hands

Hunt with handmade weapons

Go unseen with natural camouflage

Tan hides for buckskin

Fashion bark canteens