How To Stay Alive In The Woods: A Complete Guide to Food, Shelter and Self-Preservation Anywhere

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This is the classic survival annual, now updated, re-illustrated and published for the first time in a Jungle-proof rubber khaki cover. Anyone who spends time in the wild: walkers, orienteerers, climbers, hunters: can suddenly be dependent upon his or her own resources to survive. This book offers serious tips and techniques that make starvation in the wilderness virtually impossible when you become lost or stranded, using only the resources of Mother Nature. Sustenance; Science of Staying Alive; Edible Vegetation Identification Guide; Trapping; Thirst; Warmth; Facts of Lighting Fires; Shelter for the Making; Wilderness Homes; Clothing; Orientation; Staying Found; Knowing Where You Are; Camping; Signalling; Lost in the Woods; Safety; Getting Out of Trouble; Emergency First Aid; Backwoods Medicine; Survival Kit; Detailed technical illustrations show readers exactly what they need to identify and to make: edible foods, simple traps, lean-to constructions, fire-building techniques, emergency signals, navigation methods...

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Bradford Angier (1910 - 1997) was a wilderness survivalist and the author of numerous bestselling books on nature, survival, and living off the land. His writing is supplemented by text from noted survivalist and naturalist writers including Gregory J. Davenport, Christopher Nyerges, Jon Young, and Tiffany Morgan.