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

Pewtherer, Michael

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ISBN 10: 0071484671 ISBN 13: 9780071484671

Casa editrice: McGraw-Hill, 2010

Riassunto

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, ortundra--in nearly any part of the world.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Mike Pewtherer has been practicing and teaching wilderness living and survival skills for over 18 years. He is the coauthor of Wilderness Survival (2006) and the 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 Australias 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. Hometown: Philmont, NY

Contenuti:

1. Shelter
2. Water
3. Fire
5. Food
6. Comfort, Health, and Amenities
7. Navigation

Su questa edizione

• Editore: McGraw-Hill
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0071484671
• ISBN 13: 9780071484671
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 288