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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 613.69
EAN num: 9780071453318
ISBN number: 0071453318
Label: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press
Manufacturer: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 288
Printing Date: April 13, 2006
Publishing house: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press
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Do you have what it takes?
You’re alone in the wilderness with nothing but a knife and the clothes on your back. Will you survive? Do you have the skills to feed, clothe, and protect yourself? Mark Elbroch, a master tracker, and Mike Pewtherer, a woodland skills educator, put those questions to the test when they embarked on a 46-day, unprovisioned, unequipped journey into the dense wilderness of the northeastern United States.
Wilderness Survival is their highly practical and uniquely observant introduction to survival in the deep woods. Mark and Mike tested generally accepted truths, questioned conventional solutions, and distilled the best techniques for making fire, obtaining shelter, finding water, and hunting with primitive weapons. They give you:
• A life-saving handbook of survival skills that explores man's place in the natural world
• The secret to surviving in the wilderness as part of nature—not its adversary
• Explanations of more than 30 wilderness survival skills, including hunting and gathering food, fashioning tools, and preserving and storing food
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This book is the perfect supplement to typical survival reading. The combination of actual experience with creative ideas on tools, techniques, and tricks keeps the book interesting. This is great for those of you who are either starting out in your search for survival knowledge or have holes in your existing knowledge. On several occasions the author mentions practices that are so astute and are not mentioned in manuals like the army survival manual. The book is obviously not for everyone...like those who think they know everything. Highly recommended for open minded people who wish to learn while enjoying a good story.
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I really enjoyed this. Mostly very good explanations of some survival techniques well-placed among the story of his summer in the woods in New England. This is not a comprehensive handbook, but a very nice, easy to read, introduction. Some of the philosophical ramblings were forgettable, but several bits gave me an appreciation for our connection (or lack thereof) to nature that is missing in some survivial textbooks. Definitely recommended as an introduction!
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I highly reccomend this book. Some have said the title is misleading and that the book isn't about survival, but what is the most important part of survival? Attitude! And this book helps you to think about that attitude and what it means. The skills talked about are both survival and wilderness living skills, both of which are needed in survival situations. If you only learn how to read a compass and use a signal mirror, you MIGHT survive if you get lost in the wilderness, but you will need to know much more than that, and this book shows you how you can learn without having to be in a wilderness. The things they write about are real experiences.
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I very much enjoyed this book. The simple description is that it's a journal of a few guys who wanted to put all the individual skills of survival together and see how they fared. The skills section is not a list of every survival skill, but a description of how to do each skill they used on their 46 day trip. The fact that they were not in some remote wilderness has no bearing on the fact that they provided for themselves while they were in the woods (the pizza meal did not sustain them for 46 days...did it?). They hunted, caught fish, harvested wild plants, made shelters and carried no gear other than their clothes and knives, how cool is that? One of the great things about this book is that you can see how they prioritized, how they strung all the skills together to form a way of life for the duration of their trip.
The only little thing I was not liking, was that the moment a skill was mentioned in the journal, the instruction on how to do it was inserted, even when there were only a few lines left of the journal. It would be better if the instruction came at the end of the chapters, but no biggie.
I wholeheartedly recommend this book to any who enjoy the outdoors and particularly to those who would make a similar trip.
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The title is what made me order this book. I wanted to hone my own survival skills that I'd gathered over the years, and the context of a story rather than a guide was quit appealing. Unfortunately what I found was of little value. I must say the whole context of the book is a little hokey. While other true survivalists have been known to fly into remote areas like Alaska with just the basics, these guys simply wander off a few hiking trails in the vicinity of an urban area. One gets lonely quite quick and leaves whenever he wants. 7 days into the journey they all hit the local restaurant for pizza, then the very subsequent day have the gall to club a baby fawn to death in the name of "survival". Later Mexican food is brought in by a girlfriend.
This is not "survival" to me, just three guys choosing to live in the woods subsequent to a highway. There was no danger from predators, disease or hypothermia. This self-serving exercise took place in the peak of summer in a hand-picked abundant forest, with emergency services and civilization only a walk away. Yet with all the clubbing, spearing and snaring they did, there was always the usual justification for there actions in controlling excess populations of animals.
There are certainly better books on the skills to exist in the woods, better written and richer in knowledge. True survival stories are also far more rich in adventure and authentic in nature. Pass this one unless found in a clearance bin and you need fuel for a campfire.
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