101 Skills You Need to Survive in the Woods: The Most Effective Wilderness Know-How on Fire-Making, Knife Work, Navigation, Shel

Description

Kevin Estela brings outdoor enthusiasts his expertise in wilderness survival with new and unique survival skills-a hot topic in the wilderness community. Important basic skills are covered for beginners, but the core of the book presents innovative, advanced techniques that will excite wilderness buffs. Kevin has been featured on the History Channel as a subject-matter expert and regularly contributes to multiple publications focusing on wilderness survival and the outdoors. His trusted voice comes to life in this book of sought-after wilderness skills. Kevin builds a strong foundation for wilderness survival starting with the psychology of the craft and building up to technical skills for using cordage and essential steps to hunt and gather food. Readers will learn practical skills like how to read a compass, splint a broken bone, tap trees for water and make a fire with a flashlight. Whether a reader is gathering base knowledge for navigating the great outdoors or looking to improve their fire-building skills, this book provides all the necessary information for a safe and informed experience in the wilderness. This book will have 101 skills and at least 101 photos.

Kevin Estela is a professional wilderness survival teacher and owner of Estela Wilderness Education. He has lent his knowledge to such outlets as Recoil and Off-Grid magazine as well as the History Channel. He lives in Connecticut.

"Kevin Estela is my go-to survival teacher and mentor. He makes it all look easy, and his book is a great guide for anyone interested in survival skills." --Kyle DeFoor, former SEAL and owner of DeFoor Proformance Shooting "This is a no-nonsense approach to keeping yourself alive from someone with real-world experience, written with the hope that one tidbit of information will one day help someone out of a bad situation." --Patrick Rollins, lead instructor for Randall's Adventure Training "101 Skills You Need to Survive in the Woods is a comprehensive manual of skills every outdoors person should own. It will be at home in your pack or vehicle, or as a reference for teaching." --Terry Barney, USAF survival instructor "Kevin covers all the bases, providing you with the knowledge needed to survive an unexpected wilderness emergency, because nobody expects it to happen to them." --Doug Ritter, chairman and executive director of Knife Rights, Inc. "Do yourself a favor. Get this book! Your life may very well depend upon it." --Craig Caudill, director of Nature Reliance School and author of Extreme Wilderness Survival and Ultimate Wilderness Gear