The Pocket Outdoor Survival Guide: The Ultimate Guide for Short-Term Survival

Description

The Pocket Outdoor Survival Guide provides the essential knowledge that hikers, campers, canoeists, hunters, anglers, and anyone who spends time in the outdoors needs to deal with short-term survival situations. This handy guidebook will give you the knowledge to make it through any outdoor adventure, planned or unplanned. Discover everything you need to know about: * Trip planning * Survival kits * Search and rescue * Coping with bad weather * Emergency signaling * Shelter * Sleeping warm * Fire * Dealing with insects * Safe drinking water * Food * Avoiding hypothermia * Countering fear * And more! Don't be caught without a copy of J. Wayne Fears's The Pocket Outdoor Survival Guide on your next outdoor adventure!

J. Wayne Fears is a wildlife biologist by training who has organized big-game hunting camps, guided canoe trips, and run commercial getaway operations. Former editor of Rural Sportsman magazine, he has written more than more than twenty books on a variety of subjects ranging from cabin building (including How to Build Your Dream Cabin in the Woods) to survival (The Pocket Outdoor Survival Guide) to cookbooks (including The Complete Book of Dutch Oven Cooking), and more than four thousand articles for major outdoors magazines. A member of the International Dutch Oven Society and an accomplished writer and skilled outdoorsman, Fears lives in Cross Creek Hallow, Alabama.