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Books > Sport & Leisure > Sports & outdoor recreation > Active outdoor pursuits > Outdoor survival skills
The ultimate guide to survival, this edition now includes the most
essential urban survival tips for today, supplementing the fully
updated original, bestselling handbook. The original and best
survival guide for any situation in every climate is back. Now with
added techniques for handling Urban dangers, the SAS Survival
Handbook is the complete companion for adventurers everywhere. From
making camp and finding food in the wild to security and
self-defence in the streets, be prepared in any city, land or sea.
SAS legend John 'Lofty' Wiseman's unrivalled multi-million copy
bestseller will teach you: Preparation - Understanding and
assembling latest, most resilient, kit. Navigation - Skills,
technologies and techniques to get you through unfamiliar terrain.
Food and Health - Finding resources in your environment, feeding
yourself, healing yourself and avoiding disease. Urban Safety and
Security - Recognising dangerous situations, defending yourself and
saving others. Disaster Survival - Dealing with unstable
environmental conditions: what to do in the face of flash flooding
or fast-spreading fire.
The Army version "Map Reading and Land Navigation" is the simplest
and most straightforward explanation of how to get around with just
a compass and a map. This guide is perfect for any outdoorsman or
for teaching Boy Scouts how to use a compass.
Immerse yourself in the rich sights, sounds, and smells of big game
hunting in "Alaskan Sunrise to African Sunset," a rollicking tale
of one man's hunting adventures in the great outdoors. With
stunning detail and a flair for storytelling, Glenn T. Bingham
shares his thirty-year journey from his humble beginnings hunting
small game and deer in upstate New York to escapades throughout the
lower 48 states, Canada, Alaska, and Africa. Follow Bingham as he
hunts whitetails in the great white north, stalks mule deer in the
Rocky Mountains, climbs above the Arctic Circle for dall sheep, and
tracks cape buffalo into the tall grass of Zimbabwe. Along the way
he recreates the beauty of nature, lessons learned (sometimes the
hard way), and the satisfaction of success. Containing more than
fifty pictures, this engrossing account presents an exciting, often
humorous look at Bingham's experiences in some of the most remote
places on the planet. Experience the thrill of the hunt with
"Alaskan Sunrise to African Sunset"
Being your own wilderness doctor for the security of knowing what
to do for the best--in case of the worst--a more than first-aid
companion that's always there when a doctor may be too far away.
Angier who knows the outdoors, and Dr. Kodet who knows
people--inside and out--team up to present life-saving,
panic-preventing information for times when making the right
decision is most vital. Here are trip-saving ways to handle the
sometimes painful but rarely serious accident-health problems that
can face campers, hikers, and vacationers...cuts, sprains, insect
bites, blisters burns. Here's what to do when a misstep results in
fracture, break, dislocation, swelling. Know how a doctor would
view symptoms that loom larger as the metropolis recedes; how he's
handle the problem; how to differentiate between minor protests of
hard used muscles and signs of serious trouble that call for prompt
professional help.
Living off the Country changes the risk of moving around in the
outdoors into trouble-free times...offering take-along tips for
finding free appetite fillers, thirst quenchers, weapons and warmth
in all kinds of situations. In a clear and understandable way, brad
Angier provides a harvest of handy, helpful hints about the
necessities of life...where to look for the natural-growing supply
of edible, unusual, taste-tickling plants, bushes, and fruit;
make-shift but sure-fire ways to catch fish; easy ways to
utensil-less cooking; building and using first to the best
advantages; constructing off-beat shelters handily; best ways to
conserve and use available clothing; what to do about finding your
way; backwoods medicine for emergencies...and much more to satisfy
man's need to stay alive in the woods. For any kind of timber trek,
pack Living Off the Country with other survival gear. Nature
Magazine advises "if you're planning any wilderness adventure, you
would do well to get acquainted with the valuable information in
this book."
What Thoreau proved a century ago about returning to nature will
still work today. There is an inexpressible thrill in the intimate
study of primitive country, the workshop of nature, the
appreciation of wilderness technique. Unspoiled regions possess a
quiet beauty and peace--no artificiality, no crowds, all woods
uncut. There is unbounded satisfaction and pleasure in successfully
meeting the challenge of the wilderness. The two requirements for
man in the North Country are knowledge and equipment. Colonel
Townsend Whelen and Bradford Angier have combined their vast
experiences camping and bivouacking to produce the perfect guide to
peace and utter freedom. If the wilderness calls you, they invite
you to join them and talk together about how to live in it. They
explain what from their experience they found to be the best ways
of entering wild and unspoiled country, of finding their way
through it, and living there in comfort and safety. On Your Own in
the Wilderness is their explicit direction on how to escape to an
earthly Paradise.
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