How to Stay Alive in the Woods, Hardcover

Survive anywhere, under any conditions with How to Stay Alive in the Woods: a practical, readable, and potentially indispensable manual for venturing into the great outdoors or backcountry. Using detailed illustrations and clear instructions, wilderness expert and survivalist Bradford Angier offers tried-and-true outdoor skills, wisdom, and know-how to help readers confidently master the wilderness without modern gear. 

How to Stay Alive in the Woods is organized into four main sections:

• Sustenance: spearfishing and hunting basics, capturing food with weapons, snares, and your bare hands, quenching your thirst at sea, and tips for outdoor cooking and meal prep, plus a full-color edible vegetation identification guide.
• Warmth: fire-starting and campfire-building in various weather conditions, fashioning shelters in the wilderness, and dressing for the unexpected, including emergency waterproofing tactics and blueprints for emergency layers on the go.
• Orientation: navigating using maps, compasses, bodies of water, landmarks and the night sky, interpreting signals, from distress calls to morse code, and more.
• Safety: avoiding trouble (and what to do if you find yourself in it, anyway), managing injury and severe weather, emergency aid, backwoods medicine, and what to pack in your Survival Kit.

This limited edition comes with a handy compass, packaged within the book’s front cover for accessibility and safe keeping.