Ray Mears Outdoor Survival

Outdoor Survival Handbook by Ray Mears

The Outdoor Survival Handbook : A Guide to the Resources & Material Available in the Wild & How to Use Them for Food, Shelter, Warmth, & Navigation. 

Whether you are a novice hiker or camper, or a more experienced outdoors-person who spend weeks or months in the wilderness, The Outdoor Survival Handbook will help you make the most of your adventures in the great outdoors. 

Survival-skills expert Raymond Mears delivers dependable, thorough, and easy-to-understand advice on every aspect of outdoor survival, season by season. 

The essential everyday skills you’ll learn include how to construct a warm, waterproof shelter at any time of the year, build a good fire in all kinds of weather, gather prepare and cook wild foods for tasty and nutritional meals, identify medicinal herbs, collect and purify water, track and identify animals, orienteer using map, compass, and natural navigational aids, make tools and equipment from natural materials, and much more. 

Filled with practical tips and hundreds of useful drawings and diagrams, this book will help outdoors-people of all experience levels master the art of taking full enjoyment in the wilderness without violating the natural wonders that surround them.