Here, in one essential volume, are the basics of wilderness survival. The most ancient and important skills, preserved for generations, are presented in a simple, easy-to-use format with clear illustrations and instructions. A complete must-have companion to the great outdoors.\ • How to build natural shelters in plains, woods, or deserts\ • How to get safe drinking water from plants, trees, the sun, or Earth Herself\ • How to make fire without matches and maintain it in any weather\ • How to...
This long-awaited handbook by the director of the world-famous Tracking, Nature and Wilderness Survival School is the first of its kind. Like FOXFIRE it preserves knowledge that was in danger of being lost forever, but reaches even deeper into the past. It is about the basics. In it you will find much that was forgotten: the most ancient and essential skills of humankind, presented in a comprehensive and usable wilderness survival library, of which this first volume forms the heart.