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The Pocket Outdoor Survival Guide

The Ultimate Guide for Short-Term Survival
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The Pocket Outdoor Survival Guide by J. Wayne Fears is a practical manual designed to equip outdoor enthusiasts with essential survival skills. It covers a variety of techniques for staying safe and comfortable in the wilderness, such as building shelters, finding food and water, and navigating in different terrains. Its concise and straightforward advice is ideal for both novice adventurers and seasoned explorers.
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Format: Paperback / softback
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This book may appeal to you if you have a passion for outdoor adventures and wish to enhance your survival skills. Written by a renowned expert in outdoor living, it offers practical advice on surviving in the wild, covering essential topics such as finding food and shelter, navigating tough terrain, and handling emergency situations. Whether you're an experienced trekker or a beginner camper, it provides valuable knowledge for making outdoor excursions safer and more enjoyable.

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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 signalling
  • 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!

Series: Skyhorse Pocket Guides

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781616080501

Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 03 March 2011

Country: United States

Imprint: Skyhorse Publishing

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 15.0mm

Width: 108.0mm

Height: 165.0mm

Weight: 159g

Pages: 144

About the Author

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.

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