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Ultimate Guide to Wilderness Living: Surviving with Nothing But Your Bare Hands and What You Find in the Woods |  | Authors: John McPherson, Geri McPherson
Publisher: Ulysses Press
Category: Book
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Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 38738
Media: Paperback
Pages: 380
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Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.9
ISBN: 1569756503
Dewey Decimal Number: 613.69
EAN: 9781569756508
ASIN: 1569756503
Publication Date: May 28, 2008
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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 food. 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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 outstanding November 3, 2009
Troy D. Pierce
primative to the extreme. and in this instance, that is a compliment. some of the info found in the book, i was aware of. but there is so much to learn from this book that it is mind boggling. kudos to the McPherson.
IF CIVILIZATION FALLS TOMMOROW....THIS WILL BE A GREAT BOOK TO HAVE October 14, 2009
K. Costner
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
TRUST ME.... THIS IS AN EXCELLENT BOOK TO LEARN THE BASICS OF PRIMITIVE/NATIVE AMERICAN SURVIVAL SKILLS. JOHN AND GERI DO A GREAT JOB OF EXPLAINING AND ILLUSTRATING THE VARIOUS SKILLS WITH DESRCIPTIONS AND PHOTOGRAPHS. ALTHOUGH THE PHOTOS ARE BLACK AND WHITE, THEY ARE GOOD ENOUGH TO GET THE POINT ACROSS TO YOU. IF SOMEDAY SOON YOU ARE FORCED TO ABANDON YOUR HOME AND RUN INTO THE WILDERNESS WITH NOTHING BUT THE CLOTHS ON YOUR BACK, YOU WILL BE ABLE TO SURVIVE IF YOU LEARN THE SKILLS THAT JOHN AND GERI TEACH IN THIS BOOK AND YOU WILL THANK YOUR SWEET JESUS THAT YOU DID. IF YOU ARE A BEGINNER WITH PRIMITIVE SURVIVAL KNOWLEDGE, START WITH THIS BOOK. IT HAS BEEN A VERY HELPFUL BOOK FOR ME. THANK YOU JOHN AND GERI! P.S. AS THIS BOOK DOES NOT TEACH ANYTHING ABOUT EDIBLE WILD PLANTS FOR FOOD, I SUGGEST A BOOK TITLED: THE ESSENTIAL WILD FOOD SURVIVAL GUIDE BY: LINDA RUNYON
Great Book October 5, 2009
James Hayes (Mid-Missouri USA)
Great book and lots of useful information. I've lived in the country my whole life and have probably spent as much time in the woods as I have in a house. I bought this book mainly for the brain tanning section but when I read I found useful things that I was unaware of. The only thing I noticed was that it had no section on water purification but other than that it is a useful book with many helpful tips.
Ultimate Guide to Wilderness Living January 18, 2009
L. J. Wawrzonek (Milwaukee, WI USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought this book for a gift for my husband. I chose it largely due to the endorsement by Survivorman (Les Stroud). My husband loved it. I'd consider him a passionate outsdoorsman. This isn't the first time reading a book has inspired him. He now has (another) project on the back burner; making his own bow. He has since orderd Cherokee Bows and Arrows and The Traditional Bowyer's Bible, Volume One.
One of THE BEST survival skills/wilderness living books ever compiled, period January 14, 2009
The Doctor (The TARDIS)
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
Most survival skills books that I've read tell you just enough about important techniques so that you are aware of them, but definately not enough for you to be able to walk outside and do them yourself. That really doesn't help you in a survival situation. Not so here. John writes in a very personal, simple and useful manner. His personality really comes through. He writes as one would speak in everyday life. This also helps with the learning...he spends so much time on each topic and covers them from so many angles that you really can, say, read his section on "makin fire" with the bow/drill and then walk outside with a pocket knife and do it yourself.
A lot of people here are bitchin and moanin about the fact that this book is the same as McPherson's previous book, Naked Into the Wilderness; Primitive Wilderness Living & Survival Skills. To that I say, boo hoo. Books get reprinted all the time and what this book is is a cause for celebration...it's the first national printing of John's masterpiece. Even Naked Into the Wilderness was formerly published as 10 separate books. Naked simply combined all 10 original books and treated them as chapters.
I also don't know why people are complaining about the pictures in this book, saying that they need to be "updated." Why? These techniques haven't changed for thousands of years, so why's it matter if some pictures illustrating them are a decade or so old? If they were wearing modern clothes in the pictures that wouldn't help you learn brain tanning any better. It also wouldn't help if the pictures were in color, at all. All that would do is increase the cost of publishing the book. We should be glad that this little book originally published in Randolph, Kansas has now published nationally. (Being from Kansas myself I wish I had met Ol' John while I was there. He sounds like a cool dude.)
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