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Outdoor Survival Skills

Complete Guide to Camping and Wilderness Survival
by Vin T. Sparano

Details the types of equipment available for camping, boating, cooking, and survival, gives camping recipes and images of edible plants and animals, and gives first aid treatments for common wilderness injuries.
Bushcraft 101: A Field Guide to the Art of Wilderness Survival
by Dave Canterbury

Offers survival skills on using the surrounding wilderness as a useful resource, including how to manufacture needed tools, how to collect and cook food, and how to guard against the elements.
Advanced Bushcraft: An Expert Field Guide to the Art of Wilderness Survival
by Dave Canterbury

In this valuable guide, survivalist Dave Canterbury goes beyond bushcraft basics to teach you how to survive in the backcountry with little or no equipment.
Build the Perfect Bug Out Survival Skills: Your Guide to Emergency Wilderness Survival
by Creek Stewart

A guide to wilderness survival after an emergency shows how to meet the four key needs of shelter, fire, water, and food, offering instruction for such topics as knot tying, shelter construction, and setting snares.
SAS Survival Handbook: The Ultimate Guide to Surviving Anywhere
by John Wiseman

A survival guide from the Special Air Service offers a complete course on how to be prepared for any type of emergency.
The Hunting and Gathering Survival Manual
by Tim MacWelch

Learn the best tactics for living off the land, from eating wild plants to subsistence hunting.
How to Eat in the Woods: A Complete Guide to Foraging, Trapping, Fishing, and Finding Sustenance in the Wild
by Bradford Angier

One of the world’s most respected wilderness survivalists presents a portable, comprehensive, practical and reliable guide to staying alive in the woods and living off the land.
Epic Survival: Extreme Adventure, Stone Age Wisdom, and Lessons in Living from a Modern Hunter-Gatherer
by Matt Graham

The star of the Discovery Channel's Dual Survival and Dude, You're Screwed reveals the physical, mental and emotional trials and tribulations of his life as a modern-day hunter-gatherer in a narrative that combines epic adventure and a spiritual quest of one man's return to nature.
Wilderness Navigation: Finding Your Way Using Map, Compass, Altimeter & GPS
by Bob Burns

The best-selling text on wilderness navigation has been updated and organized to make it easier to learn this vital skill. The official textbook for thousands of navigation courses throughout the world.
The Lost Art of Reading Nature's Signs
by Tristan Gooley

Based on the author's outdoor experiences, presents a compendium of information and forecasting details that can be gathered from observations about plants, animals, landscapes, buildings, clouds, stars, sun, and the moon.
The Complete Survival Shelters Handbook
by Anthonio Akkermans

Examining everything from basic debris covers, branch lean-tos and bent sapling shelter to advanced leaf huts, snowcaves and subterranean hideaways, an ultimate guide to building life-saving shelters using the natural materials available through 30 easy-to-follow tutorials and more than 200 step-by-step photos.
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