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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.
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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.
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The learning of the necessary "skills" to live directly with nature, eliminating the need of intermediaries, isn't really all that difficult. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index
The learning of the necessary "skills" to live directly with nature, eliminating the need of intermediaries, isn't really all that difficult. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Same book, different title, Jun 8 2008
By Travis Beasland - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Ultimate Guide to Wilderness Living: Surviving With Nothing but Your Bare Hands and What You Find in the Woods (Paperback)
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.
52 of 60 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars
Un-Ultimate Guide to Wilderness Living, May 14 2008
By Michael Cohen - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Ultimate Guide to Wilderness Living: Surviving With Nothing but Your Bare Hands and What You Find in the Woods (Paperback)
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.
21 of 24 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars
Tired rehash of earlier books, Oct 14 2008
By Outside - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Ultimate Guide to Wilderness Living: Surviving With Nothing but Your Bare Hands and What You Find in the Woods (Paperback)
I looked forward to seeing the "New Book" from these authors and was sorely disappointed when it arrived. Time would have been well spent by the authors and the publisher to take an editing ax to this book. The core information is good, but it seems as if the authors kept a journal of their experiments and after doing them once or twice for the first book, did not try again thus the lack of any new observations, improved illustrations/photos or any other noticeable change. The cutesy backwoods rambling with all it's poor grammar, was fun for the first book, tolerable for the second and downright irritating for this tired rehash of their earlier books. To be picked up by a publisher and then squander that opportunity is a real pity and a ripoff to those who already have the same material under the original title.
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