Product Description

This is the most comprehensive and far-reaching guide to surviving in the woods. 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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #223681 in Books
• Published on: 2008-04-28
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 380 pages

About the Author
John McPherson and Geri McPherson teach primitive wilderness living and survival skills to instructors in the U.S. Army's Special Warfare Command's survival school. They live on 46 acres of undeveloped land in the flinthills of Kansas.

Customer Reviews

A must have for any primitive skill enthusiast
I think this is a great book. Best thing is that it is written by people who live by what they teach therefore the information is accurate. Personally I don't mind the photos - they aren't that bad they are just black and white. The photos were taken by the authors as they were doing the things illustrated so they aren't going to go back and repeat everything for a colour digital camera. The fact they are black and white simply shows how long they have been practicing the skills! The knowledge is what counts and it is first rate - I am a survival instructor and I have learnt some very useful things from this book!

Does what it says on the box.
I feel that I had to review this one as I have been recomending it to others for a while now. I gave it five stars, minus one, because of the picture issue. I agree that they suck becuse they are old, but they do what they are meant to do, and that is inform where words can't.

If you want to start from the ground up, so to speak, then you do need this book. If you have ever watched Ray Mears on telly, or read his books (I remember him when his book had Raymond on it) then you know that he can at times go native and make a 'thing' from nothing but what is around him. With this book you can do the same and it is not by Mears. And to top it all you wont forget because to move on, you need to have mastered the basics, but the basics are simple, they just need practice.

And that is what this book is all about, practice. Getting out there and doing it for real.

So if you want to read about it then get the book and a hot cup of tea. But if you want to get out there and do it (in your garden if you like) then get this book and learn how to make the mug for the tea.

dont buy
useless, why oh why do they think a few old, black and white, small, grainy, underexposed photos of hippies in the woods are going to be of any practical use in any way!. I have nothing against hippies, but there must be modern photos somewhere. the photos are so bad they have to be seen to be believed.