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

Tom Brown's Field Guide to Wilderness Survival

Author: Tom Brown, Jr.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0425105725
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 289

Book Description
A fully illustrated wilderness survival guide perfect for seasoned and novice outdoors enthusiasts alike. Here, in one essential volume, are the basics of wilderness survival. The most ancient and important skills, preserved for generations, are presented in a simple, easy-to-use format with clear illustrations and instructions. A complete must-have companion to the great outdoors. • How to build natural shelters in plains, woods, or deserts • How to get safe drinking water from plants, trees, the sun, or Earth Herself • How to make fire without matches and maintain it in any weather • How to find, stalk, kill, and prepare animals for food • The "big four" edible plants, and hundreds of others useful for both nutrition and medicine TOM BROWN'S FIELD GUIDES: America's most popular nature reference books, Tom Brown's bestselling field guides are specially designed for both beginners and experienced explorers. Fully illustrated and comprehensive, each volume includes practical information, time-tested nature skills, and exciting new ways to rediscover the earth around us.

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.

The Survival Handbook

Author: DK Publishing
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0756657040
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 322

Book Description
Essential skills for outdoor adventure from the Royal Marines Learn to stay alive with the Royal Marines. Want to know what to do if you met a bear in the woods, how to light a fire in the rain or what to do in shark-infested waters? Get the answers to these and many more questions with the ultimate guide to survival techniques as experienced by the Royal Marines. Pick up survival basics, from staying fit, to planning your expedition and packing essential kit. Discover what to do on a trail, from navigating and using pack animals to hiking or even skiing to your destination. You'll pick up wilderness techniques and learn to make shelters, find water, spot, catch and cook wild food. And when there's an emergency you'll be glad you learned how to mount a rescue, use essential first aid techniques and even how to get found. Learn survival techniques from the men who've been there, done it and survived. And take on the most testing challenges nature can throw at you.

Shelters, Shacks, and Shanties

Author: Daniel Carter Beard
Publisher: Shelter Publications, Inc.
ISBN: 9780936070131
Category : Buildings, Temporary
Languages : en
Pages : 282

Book Description
Written and illustrated in 1914 by one of the founders of the Boy Scouts of America, this primer contains detailed directions for constructing a wide range of shelters--including a complete log cabin. 338 illustrations.

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.

Survival Handbook

Author: Marc Sumerak
Publisher: becker&mayer! kids
ISBN: 0760364354
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 143

Book Description
Wherever adventure takes you, take this book! Survival Handbook: An Essential Companion to the Great Outdoors includes crucial tips on exactly what you need to know to survive even the most unexpected circumstances. Also included are useful items to help you survive in the wild: reflective stickers, a foldable cup, a reflective sheet, and even a removable string binding! This illustrated guide shows you how to make a shelter, build a fire, locate clean water, forage for food, avoid deadly animals, protect yourself from bad weather, and find your way back home safely afterward. Whether you're lost, hungry, burned, or buried, knowing essential emergency survival skills could literally mean the difference between life and death. Don't go into the wild without this book!

Backpacker The Survival Hacker's Handbook

Author: Backpacker Magazine
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493030574
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 265

Book Description
Backpacker The Survival Hacker’s Handbook provides detailed instruction on how to use everyday items to survive in extraordinary circumstances. Sure, the quirk is here. For instance, learn how to make a fishhook out of a beer can, start a fire with hand sanitizer, or purify water with bleach. But it goes beyond the quirk to identify real solutions for real scenarios—with real items you carry with you. The book includes useful tips and tricks from survival experts, and provides step-by-step instructions, along with short stories of survival situations where these modern survival skills have come into play. The book is organized around basic fundamental concepts of survival: finding food, building shelter, securing water, etc.

The Complete Wilderness Training Book

Author: Hugh McManners
Publisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
ISBN:
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 196

Book Description
Whether you are an avid outdoors person or would simply like some survival knowledge just in case you need it, The Complete Wilderness Training Book teaches you all the skills necessary for living off the land -- even in the most adverse conditions. Illustrated with more than 950 color photographs and illustrations, including many step-by-step sequences, The Complete Wilderness Training Book offers an unparalleled understanding of the outdoors. It contains hundreds of specific techniques for staying warm and dry, obtaining food and water, traveling and getting help, including making a foliage bed, testing plants for poison, making a compass, splinting a broken arm, and surviving a blizzard. During his 16 years in the British Army, Hugh McManners served as a paratrooper and combat-survival instructor. Here he shares with you the knowledge that has meant the difference between life and death for him on a number of occasions.

Camping & Survival

Author: Paul Tawrell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780974082059
Category : Camping
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Aim of this book is to entertainn its readers, to alert readers to the potential dangers and emergencies that might occur in the wilderness and how to avoid them. This knowledge might help a person survive or avoid a difficult situation.