The Complete Survival Shelters Handbook

Author: Anthonio Akkermans
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1612435122
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 153

Book Description
The ultimate guide to building protection from the elements, perfect for beginners and experienced outdoor enthusiasts alike. You can survive a couple of weeks without food and a few days without water, but in some cases, you would be lucky to survive one night without shelter. With structures ideally suited for any weather condition, this book presents emergency shelter designs built from a variety of elements, including 100 percent gathered items, a combination of natural and store-bought supplies, and even durable construction materials. The author offers helpful tips and techniques for mastering your shelter-building skills, as well as tutorials on how to make basic tools, bedding, mattresses, and other items to increase shelter comfort. Packed with easy-to-follow instructions and step-by-step photos, this all-encompassing primer teaches you how to construct a variety of lifesaving shelters, including: · Rock Shelter · Debris Hut · Lean-To · Bent Sapling Shelter · Snow Cave · Subterranean Shelter · Scandinavian Lavvu · Ger/Yurt · Basha/Tarp Shelter

The Ultimate Survival Shelters: Construction Manual

Author: Michael Pugliese
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780879472627
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 126

Book Description
The insane foreign & domestic policies of the government have brought terrorists to America with their bombs! Your only choice is to plan ahead for the inevitable. This book shows 11 different plans for your survival shelter. These are not just drawings either. They are complete plans, materiel lists, and instructions for shelters ranging from easy to build basement blast shelters to comfortable underground shelters that look like patios or gardens from the surface.

Wilderness Survival Handbook

Author: Michael Pewtherer
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN: 9780071743044
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 288

Book Description
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, or tundra--in nearly any part of the world.

Wilderness Survival Essentials

Author: Rolf Gunderson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781734922912
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 130

Book Description
Handbook of wilderness survival skills for hikers and backpackers.

The Ultimate Guide to Survival Shelters

Author: Timothy MacWelch
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 151075847X
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 136

Book Description
Your guide to shelter in most survival situations from a New York Times bestselling author and survival expert. New York Times bestselling author and survival school founder, Tim MacWelch shows us why shelter is our top survival priority in most emergency situations, and how we can provide ourselves with this lifesaving resource. In The Ultimate Guide to Survival Shelters, MacWelch details our risks for exposure (from both the heat and cold) and guides readers through the myriad of options for providing this necessary resource. Learn how to find, enhance, and build shelters in a wide range of environments and survival situations, and learn how to get by with less than you might have imagined. Throughout this detailed handbook you’ll find: • The shelters you bring with you, including clothing and basic outdoor gear that everyone should carry • The shelter you find in the wild (like rock overhangs, hollow trees and the right evergreen trees) • Tarp Shelters (a simple square of plastic or fabric can become dozens of practical shelter styles) • The shelters you can build from vegetation (sticks and leaves don’t sound like much, but they can become a shelter that protects from the worst of weather) • Snow shelters, including the ubiquitous igloo, and other snow shelters that are even easier • Advanced shelters (with the right tools, semi-permanent shelters are within reach, all you need is a plan and building materials) • Shelter in modern emergencies (your car, office and familiar haunts can become a shelter in a disaster, here’s how to make the most of them) • Make any shelter better, with these simple tricks and tips for warmth, waterproofing, cooling, pest control, and comfort! The Ultimate Guide to Survival Shelters will give readers much more than just the knowledge to build a shelter in an emergency, it provides the tools to become a problem-solver and think outside the box in any situation.

Primitive Technology

Author: John Plant
Publisher: Clarkson Potter
ISBN: 1984823671
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 194

Book Description
From the craftsman behind the popular YouTube channel Primitive Technology comes a practical guide to building huts and tools using only natural materials from the wild. John Plant, the man behind the channel, Primitive Technology, is a bonafide YouTube star. With almost 10 million subscribers and an average of 5 million views per video, John's channel is beloved by a wide-ranging fan base, from campers and preppers to hipster woodworkers and craftsmen. Now for the first time, fans will get a detailed, behind-the-scenes look into John's process. Featuring 50 projects with step-by-step instructions on how to make tools, weapons, shelters, pottery, clothing, and more, Primitive Technology is the ultimate guide to the craft. Each project is accompanied by illustrations as well as mini-sidebars with the history behind each item, plus helpful tips for building, material sourcing, and so forth. Whether you're a wilderness aficionado or just eager to spend more time outdoors, Primitive Technology has something for everyone's inner nature lover.

Making Shelter

Author: Neil Champion
Publisher: Survive Alive
ISBN: 9781607530411
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The Survive Alive series gives young readers practical information on all aspects of surviving in the wild. It explains many traditional skills that have been developed through the ages and are still in use today. And it includes amazing true stories of people who have faced real dangers and survived. Making Shelter shows you how to build life-saving shelters in all kinds of environments, including forests, deserts, jungles, and polar regions. With clear, step-by-step instructions, it demonstrates how to use your own equipment or natural materials in the wild to construct shelters that will keep you warm, dry, and safe. Book jacket.

Bushcraft 101

Author: Dave Canterbury
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1440579784
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 256

Book Description
“With advice on not just getting along, but truly reconnecting with the great outdoors, Dave Canterbury’s treasure trove of world-renowned wisdom and experience comes to life within these pages.” —Bustle A New York Times Bestseller in Sports and Travel! The ultimate resource for experiencing the backcountry! Written by survivalist expert Dave Canterbury, Bushcraft 101 gets you ready for your next backcountry trip with advice on making the most of your time outdoors. Based on the 5Cs of Survivability--cutting tools, covering, combustion devices, containers, and cordages--this valuable guide offers only the most important survival skills to help you craft resources from your surroundings and truly experience the beauty and thrill of the wilderness. Inside, you'll also discover detailed information on: Choosing the right items for your kit. Manufacturing needed tools and supplies. Collecting and cooking food. Protecting yourself from the elements. With Canterbury's guidance, you'll not only prepare yourself for any climate and situation, you'll also learn how to use the art of bushcraft to reconnect with nature in ways you've never imagined.

Survival Wisdom & Know How

Author: The Editors of Stackpole Books
Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal
ISBN: 1603762736
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 2053

Book Description
Survival Wisdom & Know-How is the ultimate all-in-one survival guide; filled to the brim with information on every aspect of outdoor life and adventure, from orienteering to campfire cooking to ice climbing and more. Culled from dozens of respected books from Stackpole -- the industry's leader in outdoor adventure -- this massive collection of wilderness know-how leaves absolutely nothing to chance when it comes to surviving and thriving outdoors. Topics include: Orienteering Building an Outdoor Shelter Hunting and Tracking Animals Tying Knots Identifying Edible Plants and Berries Surviving in the Desert Fishing and Ice Fishing Canoeing, Kayaking, and White Water Rafting And so much more! Useful illustrations and photos throughout make it easy to browse and use. With contributions by the experts at the National Outdoor Leadership School as well as the editors of Stackpole's Discover Nature series, this book is the definitive, must-have reference for the great outdoors.

Survival Tarp Shelters

Author: Stewart
Publisher: Dropstone Press LLC
ISBN: 9780997690613
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
Canopy shelters represent an entire class of survival shelters. This field guide by Survival Instructor Creek Stewart teaches everything you need to know in order to master the art of canopy sheltering. Learn 8 essential knots (with video tutorials), 9 universal tarp shelter configurations and 6 little known woodsman tricks.