Ultimate Guide to Wilderness Living: Surviving with Nothing But Your Bare Hands and What You Find in the Woods
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- ISBN13: 9781569756508
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- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Forget reality TV stunts like eating bugs, the Essential 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 food. Then it goes beyond additional survival books by explaining advanced techniques for long-term living in the wild — using only persons things establish in scenery. The authors show how to make tools by chipping stones, fashion a bow-and-arrow out of tree branches, weave baskets, fire primitive pots, erect a semi-stable shelter, and even tan hides. Finally, the authors clarify how to bring all these skills together to live in the wilderness for days, weeks, months, or even years.
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I bought this book for a gift for my spouse. I chose it largely due to the endorsement by Survivorman (Les Stroud). My spouse loved it. I’d consider him a passionate outsdoorsman. This isn’t the first time reading a book has inspired him. He now has (another) project on the back burner; building his own bow. He has since orderd Cherokee Bows and Arrows and The Traditional Bowyer’s Bible, Volume One.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
Most survival skills books that I’ve read tell you just enough about vital techniques so that you are aware of them, but definately not enough for you to be able to walk outside and do them yourself. That really doesn’t help you in a survival situation. Not so here. John writes in a very personal, simple and useful manner. His personality really comes through. He writes as one would speak in everyday life. This also helps with the learning…he spends so much time on each topic and covers them from so many angles that you really can, say, read his section on “makin fire” with the bow/drill and then walk outside with a pocket knife and do it yourself.
A lot of people here are bitchin and moanin about the fact that this book is the same as McPherson’s previous book, Naked Into the Wilderness; Primitive Wilderness Living & Survival Skills. To that I say, boo hoo. Books get reprinted all the time and what this book is is a cause for celebration…it’s the first national printing of John’s masterpiece. Even Naked Into the Wilderness was formerly published as 10 separate books. Naked simply combined all 10 original books and treated them as chapters.
I also don’t know why people are complaining about the pictures in this book, adage that they need to be “updated.” Why? These techniques haven’t changed for thousands of years, so why’s it matter if some pictures illustrating them are a decade or so ancient? If they were wearing modern clothes in the pictures that wouldn’t help you learn brain tanning any better. It also wouldn’t help if the pictures were in color, at all. All that would do is increase the cost of publishing the book. We should be glad that this small book originally published in Randolph, Kansas has now published nationally. (Being from Kansas myself I wish I had met Ol’ John while I was there. He sounds like a cool dude.)
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
As additional reviews state the photos deffinately need to be updated but over all this is a fantastic book on survival. I want to stress again to the authors and publisher, please update the photos!!!!
To potential buyers of this book, do not let the negative comments about the photos deter you from purchasing this book. It is a wealth of knowledge. Not only does it give you detailed instructions on how to live in the wilderness with nothing, it is written in a way that will stir your mind to find additional solutions to surival issues.
Sorry to say this book separates the men from the boys and I establish out that I am still a pre-pubesent teen.
BUY THE BOOK!
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
This is the McPherson’s comprehensive book on extant in the wilderness. It is incredibly detailed with tons of photos. It covers everything: how and where to make your shelter, (long-term or fleeting-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 relief of an “ancient” book: bring shame on on you. The previous version of this book, Naked Into the Wilderness, was in fact self-published. This is the first nation-wide relief of the book, meaning it can now be establish in bookstores from coast-to-coast. You may condescend to persons 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-status 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.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
While I did find some useful tidbits here and there (I’ve already practiced most of the skills open in this book) overall I’m not really all that impressed. If this were my first read on the theme I’d probably still be clueless. If I were lost in the wilds with zero experience this book would be way better than nothing. But I know there is better out there.
For a guy who professes right from the beginning to be one of the few authors/instructors who really practices what he preaches and disses most additional authors/instructors as not being veteran I sure expected more from this book. If you are going to take the time in your book to terrible mouth others I guess you should probably make sure your stuff is wired forceful. There is no perfection in this book, McPherson even says so himself. So why bother to kick dirt in the face of others? Although he doesn’t mention any of the ‘others’ by name I still establish it very distracting and counter productive. The photos that he professes to be the best way to teach a name in a book are missing detail and washed out. He kicks dirt on others for having line drawings in their books, yet his photos are horrible. A pot calling the kettle black.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5