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(More customer reviews)This is a hard book to review. On one hand, it is easy to look through and well laid out yet the title is completely wrong for the contents. This book is about camping. Lots of information on the equipment with a scant few "survival skills" sprinkled in here and there. Most of the survival skills covered are done in such a way as to indicate the authors familiarity with the general concept, but lack of any real experience. In the chapter called "FOOD", subsection "Become A Hunter-Gatherer", Johnson covers very scantily, cattail, dandelion, thistle, nettle and rosehips. He mentions cattails have "...an edible root system" yet fails to mention anything about processing said roots. For hunting he recommends using a throwing stick to get birds and suggests finding their nests for eggs. Smoking out rodents from their burrows is also mentioned as is "...you can also capture frogs, crawdads, turtles and small fish." No mention on how to capture them or process them. Aside from a brief mention of insects, moths and muscles he offers no other information on getting food. And that is the whole section on hunting and gathering! More print is used in prepackaged camping foods and warning about Hantavirus and the like then about actually getting grub.
The book assumes you have water filters, tents, sleeping bags, tarps, a GPS and the like. Putting out a tarp to collect rain water is a no brainer and so is much of the information contained in this book.
Johnson tries to prop up his limited experience (yes I know he maintained a squatters camp in an old miners shack and a cave for a year) through lots of weak anecdotal stories and plenty of catalogue-esque pictures of himself modeling hats or water filters.
All-together disappointing as absolutely no new information was added to the survival world.
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Expert advice on staying safe in the outdoors from one of America's best-known survival writers
The best way to survive an extreme situation in the wilderness is to avoid it in the first place, says Rich Johnson in this refreshing new guide to outdoor survival skills. Avoiding both the rigid "primitive skills" ideology and macho, military/survivalist posturing, Johnson focuses on proven, easily implemented methods to handle emergency situations in an easy, low-stress manner.
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