The Complete Survival Shelters Handbook

The Complete Survival Shelters Handbook
Author: Anthonio Akkermans
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 153
Release: 2015-11-10
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1612435122

The ultimate guide to building protection from the elements, perfect for beginners and experienced outdoor enthusiasts alike. You can survive a couple of weeks without food and a few days without water, but in some cases, you would be lucky to survive one night without shelter. With structures ideally suited for any weather condition, this book presents emergency shelter designs built from a variety of elements, including 100 percent gathered items, a combination of natural and store-bought supplies, and even durable construction materials. The author offers helpful tips and techniques for mastering your shelter-building skills, as well as tutorials on how to make basic tools, bedding, mattresses, and other items to increase shelter comfort. Packed with easy-to-follow instructions and step-by-step photos, this all-encompassing primer teaches you how to construct a variety of lifesaving shelters, including: · Rock Shelter · Debris Hut · Lean-To · Bent Sapling Shelter · Snow Cave · Subterranean Shelter · Scandinavian Lavvu · Ger/Yurt · Basha/Tarp Shelter

Camping & Survival

Camping & Survival
Author: Paul Tawrell
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011-12-20
Genre: Camping
ISBN: 9780974082059

Aim of this book is to entertainn its readers, to alert readers to the potential dangers and emergencies that might occur in the wilderness and how to avoid them. This knowledge might help a person survive or avoid a difficult situation.

Shelters, Shacks, and Shanties

Shelters, Shacks, and Shanties
Author: Daniel Carter Beard
Publisher: Shelter Publications, Inc.
Total Pages: 282
Release: 1992
Genre: Buildings, Temporary
ISBN: 9780936070131

Written and illustrated in 1914 by one of the founders of the Boy Scouts of America, this primer contains detailed directions for constructing a wide range of shelters--including a complete log cabin. 338 illustrations.

Camping & Wilderness Survival

Camping & Wilderness Survival
Author: Paul Tawrell
Publisher: Paul Tawrell
Total Pages: 1092
Release: 2006
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9780974082028

Extensively researched and illustrated guidebook of nearly every conceivable aspect of outdoor camping and survival in all types of terrain and climate.

Wilderness Survival Essentials

Wilderness Survival Essentials
Author: Rolf Gunderson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2020-04-28
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9781734922912

Handbook of wilderness survival skills for hikers and backpackers.

Survival Handbook

Survival Handbook
Author: Marc Sumerak
Publisher: becker&mayer! kids
Total Pages: 143
Release: 2019-02-26
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0760364354

Wherever adventure takes you, take this book! Survival Handbook: An Essential Companion to the Great Outdoors includes crucial tips on exactly what you need to know to survive even the most unexpected circumstances. Also included are useful items to help you survive in the wild: reflective stickers, a foldable cup, a reflective sheet, and even a removable string binding! This illustrated guide shows you how to make a shelter, build a fire, locate clean water, forage for food, avoid deadly animals, protect yourself from bad weather, and find your way back home safely afterward. Whether you're lost, hungry, burned, or buried, knowing essential emergency survival skills could literally mean the difference between life and death. Don't go into the wild without this book!

Wilderness Survival Handbook

Wilderness Survival Handbook
Author: Michael Pewtherer
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2010-04-16
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9780071743044

An essential guide to everything you need to stay sheltered, fed, healthy, and safe in the backcountry Organized around the six essentials of survival (shelter, water, food, fire, comfort and health, and navigation), Wilderness Survival Handbook covers 100 skills and techniques, including preserving fire, building pit shelters, toolmaking, stoneboiling cookery, and trapping and hunting animals with handmade tools and weapons. By mastering these skills, you will be able to survive with few tools or provisions in any wilderness setting--forest, plain, desert, or tundra--in nearly any part of the world.

Making Shelter

Making Shelter
Author: Neil Champion
Publisher: Survive Alive
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010-08
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 9781607530411

The Survive Alive series gives young readers practical information on all aspects of surviving in the wild. It explains many traditional skills that have been developed through the ages and are still in use today. And it includes amazing true stories of people who have faced real dangers and survived. Making Shelter shows you how to build life-saving shelters in all kinds of environments, including forests, deserts, jungles, and polar regions. With clear, step-by-step instructions, it demonstrates how to use your own equipment or natural materials in the wild to construct shelters that will keep you warm, dry, and safe. Book jacket.

A Handbook for Wilderness Survival

A Handbook for Wilderness Survival
Author: Robert Harris
Publisher: M. Evans
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1996
Genre: Wilderness survival
ISBN: 9780871317872

A guide to surviving in the wilderness, includes such information as what to do when lost, how to use available resources, reading maps, what to pack in an emergency kit, and how to build a fire.

Primitive Technology

Primitive Technology
Author: John Plant
Publisher: Clarkson Potter
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2019-10-29
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1984823671

From the craftsman behind the popular YouTube channel Primitive Technology comes a practical guide to building huts and tools using only natural materials from the wild. John Plant, the man behind the channel, Primitive Technology, is a bonafide YouTube star. With almost 10 million subscribers and an average of 5 million views per video, John's channel is beloved by a wide-ranging fan base, from campers and preppers to hipster woodworkers and craftsmen. Now for the first time, fans will get a detailed, behind-the-scenes look into John's process. Featuring 50 projects with step-by-step instructions on how to make tools, weapons, shelters, pottery, clothing, and more, Primitive Technology is the ultimate guide to the craft. Each project is accompanied by illustrations as well as mini-sidebars with the history behind each item, plus helpful tips for building, material sourcing, and so forth. Whether you're a wilderness aficionado or just eager to spend more time outdoors, Primitive Technology has something for everyone's inner nature lover.