Ultimate Guide to Wilderness Living: Surviving with Nothing But Your Bare Hands and What You Find in the Woods
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Forget reality TV stunts like eating bugs, the Ultimate Guide to Wilderness Living provides in-depth instructions and step-by-step photos of real survival skills—exactly what one needs to stay alive in the woods. The book first covers immediate needs like starting a fire, erecting temporary shelter, and finding edible plants. Then it goes beyond other survival books by explaining advanced techniques for long-term living in the wild — using only those things found in nature. The authors show how to make tools by chipping stones, fashion a bow-and-arrow out of tree branches, weave baskets, fire primitive pots, build a semi-permanent shelter, and even tan hides. Finally, the authors explain how to bring all these skills together to live in the wilderness for days, weeks, months, or even years.
Spotlight Customer Reviews:
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First nation-wide publication of "Naked into the Wilderness"
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This is the McPherson's comprehensive book on surviving in the wilderness. It is incredibly detailed with tons of photos. It covers everything: how and where to make your shelter, (long-term or short-term) how to capture and prepare food, building weapons, baskets and cordage, even avoiding illness. There are probably few others living in the Western world that still have these skills.
In response to the reviewers who downgraded this because it is a new release of an "old" book: shame on you. The previous version of this book, Naked Into the Wilderness, was in fact self-published. This is the first nation-wide release of the book, meaning it can now be found in bookstores from coast-to-coast. You may condescend to those of us who didn't know about the book before it was published nationally but that is hardly any reason to down-grade what you KNOW to be a top-notch product. There are hundreds of different printings of the Art of War under various titles, are you going to spend all day down-ranking that simply because it has been reprinted for a couple thousand years?
I agree it would have been nice to have new photos for this book, though these have been cleaned up some from the self-published version. The book has more than six hundred photos, taken over years and years of research. Did you really expect they were going to be able to redo that in a matter of months? Get real.
But I digress. Bottom line: If you could take one thing with you to a "deserted island" let it be this book.
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Same book, different title
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This is a great book. The information is top notch. All the skills are presented in easy to follow, step-by-step instructions. I don't really have a problem with the photos either. I do think it's important that people know that this isn't a new book from the McPhersons, it is "Naked into the Wilderness" Primitive Wilderness Living & Survival Skills. The only new thing in this book is the title. All the information is the same, they've just changed the order of the chapters. Hopefully this information will save others from spending their hard earned cash on this book (plus international shipping) only to find that they already have the same book with a different cover sitting on the shelf.
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Un-Ultimate Guide to Wilderness Living
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Let me make this perfectly clear. The skills in this book are top notch and tried and true by the authors as well as by the history of mankind. My problem with this book is that the authors and the publisher should have taken more pride in putting this publication out. The McPhersons have already published the content of this book from multiple sources. I could have forgiven them for basically rebinding past content from these other books if they had updated the photos. If you go and read coments from their past works people complained even then about these very pictures that they are/were sub par. New photos absolutely should have been taken. If you do not already own books by the authors, then I do recomend this book, but don't believe for an instant that the OLD photos will help much in discerning details from these photos as part of your absorption in learning or practicing these skills.
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