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Miscellaneous Wilderness Survival Books As someone once said, the thing about wilderness survival guides is that the people who have them don't need them, and the people who need them don't have them. |
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Wildwood Wisdom Jaeger was a student and friend of the great outdoorsman Ernest Thompson Seton and an important figure in Seton's Woodcraft movement, an alternative to the Boy Scouts. This book is crammed with old-fashioned outdoors knowledge.
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How to Shit in the Woods The title says it all. When nature calls, you better be able to answer without flush toilets and rolls of TP. This book tells you how.
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Knotcraft There's a reason why Boy Scouts spend so much time learning how to tie different knots. In an outdoor setting, rope is one of the more useful things you can have, and knowledge of knotwork an essential if you're going to use rope safely and effectively. This book teaches you how.
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Mountaineering First Aid The handbook on wilderness first aid recommended by nearly all serious mountaineers and backpackers, covering the things you can do when there isn't an EMT team within three days' hike.
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Naked into the Woods Welcome to the Stone Age! When all you've got are your bare hands and the things you can find around you in the middle of nowhere, you'll wish you had paid more attention to this book. Very detailed.
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The Book of Woodcraft Seton was the grand old man of American outdoors recreation, an astonishing and neglected figure. This book is one of the manuals he created for Woodcraft, his youth organization, and has plenty of practical outdoors material mixed in with games and Native American traditions.
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The Outdoor Eye A good introduction to the art of seeing what's in front of your face in the wilderness, this book focuses on the needs of hunters but can be used by anybody who wants to function effectively in wild settings. An earlier edition is titled The Outdoor Observer.
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Camping and Woodcraft One of the great figures in outdoor recreation in the early 20th century, Kephart packed this book with info on nearly every imaginable outdoors topic. A classic of the subject.
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The Encyclopedia of Edible Plants of North America
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Boy Scout Handbook If boyscouts really learned to practice everything in this book, they would be wilderness experts.
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Boy Scouts of America : The Official Handbook for Boys (Reprint of Original 1911 Edition) Contains a lot of information not available in the current handbook, but more of a historical book than a guidebook. A lot of the information contained in this book is suspect, including much of the first aid.
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US Army Survival Manual: FM 21-76
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The Morrow Guide to Knots
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SAS Survival Handbook: How to Survive in the Wild, in Any Climate, on Land or at Sea The Special Air Services guide. An excellent survival resource.
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