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Hawke's Special Forces Survival Handbook: The Portable Guide to Getting Out Alive

by Mykel Hawke

U.S. Special Forces Captain and outdoor survival expert Mykel Hawke provides the most practical and accessible survival skills and information necessary to survive in the outdoors. These methods are based on...

Build the Perfect Bug Out Bag: Your 72-Hour Disaster Survival Kit

by Creek Stewart & Jacqueline Musser

Be Ready When Disaster Strikes

If an unexpected emergency or disaster hits, are you prepared to leave your home--fast? You will be if you follow the advice in this book.

This book shows you how to create a self-contained...

Wilderness Survival : Living Off the Land with the Clothes on Your Back and the Knife on Your Belt: Living Off the Land with the Clothes on Your Back

by Mark Elbroch & Michael Pewtherer

Do you have what it takes?

You’re alone in the wilderness with nothing but a knife and the clothes on your back. Will you survive? Do you have the skills to feed, clothe, and protect yourself? Mark Elbroch,...

How to Shit in the Woods, 3rd Edition: An Environmentally Sound Approach to a Lost Art

by Kathleen Meyer

It’s the feisty third edition of How to Shit in the Woods, jam-packed with new information for outdoor enthusiasts of every stripe. Hailed in its first edition as “the most important environmental book of...

Elements or Rock Climbing

by Robert Burbank

This book is aimed at the novice climber, the person who has rock climbed very little, or not at all.....and the climber who wants to climb better. It illustrates how to use your hands and feet to move up the...

Wilderness Survival for Dummies

by Cameron M. Smith & John F. Haslett

Your one-stop guide to surviving and enjoying the Great Outdoors

Want to know how to stay alive in extreme situations? This practical, accurate guide gives you all the expert, field-tested tools and techniques...

Stay Alive - Emergency Water Collection and Purification eShort: Know where to find sources of water & purification methods to make it safe to drink.

by John Mccann

In this excerpt from Stay Alive! Survival Skills You Need, John D. McCann shows you what can be used as a water container, where to find water, and how to purify water.

Stay Alive - Best Survival Kits, Lists & Ideas eShort: Make the best survival kit with these great ideas for clothes, food & emergency supplies.

by John Mccann

In this excerpt from Stay Alive! Survival Skills You Need, John D. McCann teaches you how to prepare an effective survival kit and addresses the main component groups for a kit.

Meat Eater: Adventures from the Life of an American Hunter

by Steven Rinella

“Revelatory . . . With every chapter, you get a history lesson, a hunting lesson, a nature lesson and a cooking lesson. . . . Meat Eater offers an overabundance to savor.”—The New York Times Book Review...

Outdoor Survival Skills

by Larry Dean Dean Olsen & Robert Redford

How to survive in almost any outdoor environment with little or no purchased equipment, relying only on what nature provides.

How to Stay Alive in the Woods: A Complete Guide to Food, Shelter and Self-Preservation Anywhere

by Bradford Angier

HOW TO STAY ALIVE IN THE WOODS is a practical, readable-and potentially indispensable-manual for anyone venturing into the great outdoors.

Broken down into four essential sections, Sustenance, Warmth, Orientation...

Stay Alive!

by John D. McCann

Having a survival kit is not enough - You must know what to do with it! An emergency can arise at anytime, and everyone from the average commuter to the risk-taking sportsman can benefit from knowing basic survival...

Survive!

by Les Stroud

From the sun-scorched sands of the Kalahari to the snake-infested jungles of the Amazon, Les Stroud has made a life of surviving in the harshest—and most remote—regions on Earth.

Now, the creator, producer,...

Build the Perfect Survival Kit

by John Mccann

An emergency can arise anytime. Now everyone from the average commuter to the risk-taking sportsman can benefit from these just-in-case kits that may just save a life. Build the Perfect Survival Kit offers a...

The Double-Daring Book for Girls

by Andrea J. Buchanan & Miriam Peskowitz

The eagerly anticipated follow-up to the bestselling phenomenon The Daring Book for Girls is an even more daring guide to everything from making a raft to learning how to play football to the art of the Japanese...

The U.S. Army Survival Manual: Department of the Army Field Manual 21-76

by Department of the Army Headquarters

From trekking across the desert and bushwhacking through the jungle to conserving body heat in the Arctic and rappelling down a mountain cliff, The U.S. Army Survival Manual presents the field-tested techniques...

Ultimate Guide to Wilderness Living: Surviving with Nothing But Your Bare Hands and What You Find in the Woods

by John McPherson

EVERYTHING THERE IS TO KNOW ABOUT SURVIVING IN THE WILD

“During my first years of learning survival I took a course in survival and primitive earth skills taught by John and Geri McPherson. I was excited by...

Along the Trail in Algonquin Park

by Ralph Bice

This book, by the legendary "Mr. Algonquin," has delighted readers across Canada and the U.S. from the time of its first publication.

The Lure of Faraway Places

by Herb Pohl & James Raffan

Herb Pohl, solo wilderness canoe traveller, left a legacy of stories that take us into the private world of an individual alone in the wilderness.

Survive!: My Fight for Life in the High Sierras

by Peter DeLeo

When Peter DeLeo set out one Sunday morning on a sightseeing and photography trip over the central Sierra Nevada mountains in California, he had no idea that he would soon be fighting for his life with the odds...