Wilderness survival handbook : primitive skills for short-term survival and long-term comfort /
Pewtherer, Michael.
New York : McGraw-Hill,
c2010.
From the Publisher:  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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1:  Seven-Day Survival -- 1:  Preparing to survive -- Clothing -- Survival kits -- 2:  Shelter -- Location, location, location -- Types of shelter -- Finding shelter -- Woodland shelters -- Snow shelters -- Desert shelters -- 3:  Water -- Finding water -- Purifying water -- Springs -- Digging -- Dew gathering and catchments -- Solar stills -- Sap gathering -- 4:  Fire -- Materials -- Tipi fires -- Fire pits and rings -- 5:  Navigation -- What to do if lost -- Basic direction finding -- Map and compass -- Using map and compass together -- Declination -- Following a bearing -- Planning a route -- 6:  Medical emergencies -- First aid -- Heat-related problems -- Cold-related injuries -- Physical injuries -- Part 2:  Beyond Survival:  Primitive Skills For Wilderness Living -- 7:  Shelters for the long term -- Pit shelters -- Thatched huts -- 8:  Fire-making tools -- Bow drill -- Hand drill -- Fire saw -- Fire plow -- Long match -- 9:  Food and drink -- Eating in the wild -- Flavored drinks -- Meal preparation and cooking -- Pit cooking -- Rock boiling -- Storing food -- Preserving food -- 10:  Fishing -- What method? -- Hand fishing -- Spearfishing -- Hook and line -- Fish poison -- 11:  Trapping -- Set locations and baits -- Types of traps -- 12:  Hunting weapons -- Rabbit stick -- Thrusting spear -- Throwing spear -- Bolas -- Atlatl -- Field bow -- Arrows -- 13:  Hunting methods -- Mental game -- Moving and seeing -- Preparing yourself -- Camouflage -- Carcass care -- 14:  Rawhide, tanning hides for buckskin, and sinew -- Rawhide -- Tanning -- Sinew -- 15:  Cordage and crude cloth -- Harvest and storage -- Spinning fibers into cordage -- Splicing -- Weaving -- 16:  Other tools and materials -- Working with stone -- Working with pitch -- Hand tools -- 17:  Containers -- Baskets -- Bark canteens -- Cooking containers -- Primitive pottery -- 18:  Comfort and cleanliness -- Camp layout -- Hygiene -- Appendix:  Recommended reading -- Index.
From the Publisher:  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.
Outdoor life.