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

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.

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!

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.

Tom Brown's Field Guide to Wilderness Survival

Author: Tom Brown, Jr.
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0425105725
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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.

A Handbook for Wilderness Survival

Author: Robert Harris
Publisher: M. Evans
ISBN: 9780871317872
Category : Wilderness survival
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
A guide to surviving in the wilderness, includes such information as what to do when lost, how to use available resources, reading maps, what to pack in an emergency kit, and how to build a fire.

Primitive Technology

Author: John Plant
Publisher: Clarkson Potter
ISBN: 198482368X
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.

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.