The Wilderness Survival Guide

• A comprehensive handbook for dancing around outdoor danger – and living to tell about it
• Dozens of unusual, innovative twists on survival essentials like finding water, building shelter and starting a fire
• Detailed (and humorous) descriptions of finding wild edibles
• More than 100 hand-drawn ink illustrations
• Written with cheeky humor and a “get on with it” attitude by British bushcraft expert Joe O’Leary
• Soft cover, 292 pages
• Measures 5 1⁄8"W x 7 3⁄4"H
• Printed in China

The consummate resource for staying alive and well in the wild. Written with authority and humor by British bushcraft legend Joe O’Leary, the pages are chock full of instruction and illustrations depicting unusual twists on survival essentials like finding water (ever tried extracting it from a tree?), building shelter, and starting a fire in a downpour (it’s not difficult if you carry a “feather stick”).

In fact, the book makes being marooned in the wilderness sound downright fun with its descriptions of harvesting and cooking up a tasty meal of burdock, nettles, worms (“little squirming packages of prime protein”) or – if you’re more conventional – fish, fowl or game. Along the way, O’Leary explains how to dress for the elements, pack a ruck sack, and choose reliable outdoor implements. And he dispenses his own cheeky brand of survival wisdom, suggesting you develop an “Oh, well, it could be worse” mentality that comes in as handy on the job site as it will on a windblown mountainside. Soft cover, 292 pages.