(This is an out-of-print book and available in limited quantity)
Describes and clearly illustrates a vast array of topics, including...
* The Will to Survive * Survival Planning * Survival Medicine * Weapons and Tools * Water Procurement * Wild Plants for Food * Wildlife for Food * Shelter * Firebuilding * Water Crossings * Direction Finding * Signaling * Desert Survival * Tropical Survival * Arctic and Subarctic Survival * Sea Survival * Poisonous Snakes * Knots * Climate * Weather

Teaches you how to...
• Overcome the desire for comfort
• Recognize the onset of a dangerous passive outlook
• Tolerate pain
• Use the word "survival" as a pnemonic device
• Plan ahead for survival
• Administer the Heimlich Hug
• Treat insect and snake bites
• Make wooden and stone knives
• Make a rabbit stick
• Start a fire with a bow and drill
• Procure water in nearly any environment
• Construct a solar water still
• Make polluted water potable
• Conduct the Universal Plant Edibility Test
• Improvise containers for boiling food
• Catch and eat insects
• Make fishhooks and fishing line
• Build a stakeout for fishing secretly
• Make spear points
• Capture amphibians and reptile
• Catch birds in a net
• Make an Ojibwa bird snare
• Make a squirrel pole
• Make a trip-string deadfall trap
• Clean a snake
• Skin and butcher small and large game
• Build a parachute tepee
• Construct a swamp bed
• Build a shelter in the desert sand
• Make a Dakota fire hole
• Cross a swift stream
• Make an Australian poncho raft
• Find direction using the sun and stars
• Signal to aircraft with your body