Wilderness Survivors Guide A Manual of Basic Survival Techniques for Scouts, Hunters, Campers, Hikers, Canoeists, Pilots, and All Others Unprepared to Meet the Challenge

Survival topics include winter survival, constructing traps and snares, poisonous and edible plant distinction, fire making, locating and purifying water, building shelter, protecting your feet, tool construction, fishing, and getting full use of your knife. Almost 300 hand drawn illustrations provided that will help you identify plants and fungi as well as demonstrate various techniques to be used in the outdoors. Hamper's guide will help you avoid common mistakes and will provide practical advice so that you can make use of sticks, leaves, nails, string, feathers, shells, and even buttons.Hamper, Margaret is the author of 'Wilderness Survivors Guide A Manual of Basic Survival Techniques for Scouts, Hunters, Campers, Hikers, Canoeists, Pilots, and All Others Unprepared to Meet the Challenge', published 2001 under ISBN 9781574322699 and ISBN 1574322699.