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Build the Perfect Survival Kit

By John D. McCann

Our Managing Director, John McCann, is the author of the first book ever written exclusively on building survival kits.  It was published by Krause Publication (now KP Books), April, 2005.  It is a 6" x 9" soft cover book with 192 pages and over 150 photographs.  The foreword is by Ron Hood of Hoods Woods, with over 35 years experience in teaching survival.

     An emergency can arise at anytime.  Now everyone from the average commuter to the risk-taking sportsman can benefit from a survival kit.  Each kit is described with a list of components, a picture of the finished product, and a discussion of each component and its value.

     The book advocates careful planning and building a personalized kit specifically tailored to each outing or possible emergency.  Readers will learn about the nine component categories: Fire & Light, Signaling, Navigation, Water & Food, Shelter & Protection, Knives & Tools, Multi-purpose Items, and Miscellaneous Items.

     Armed with the kit-building techniques found in this book, You Will Be Prepared To Survive!

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23105 - Build the Perfect Survival Kit - $12.00 

How To Survive Anywhere

By Christopher Nyerges

This unique book addresses the basic survival skills needed to keep you alive and healthy in the woods, suburbs, and city.  Each chapter focuses on a primary area of concern - water, fire, food, shelter, clothing, tools, and weapons - describing in detail practices applicable to all environments.  This one-of-a-kind guide provides real solutions to life-threatening situations caused by natural or man-made disasters, as well as the challenges encountered by anyone who wants to live more independently from modern systems, for a few days or a life time.  288 pages, 183 B&W photos.  Size: 8.25" x 5.5".     

23110 - How To Survive Anywhere - $18.00 

Outdoor Survival Skills

By Larry Dean Olsen

Outdoor Survival Skills was one of the first modern books published on wilderness survival with primitive skills.  Larry Olsen has inspired thousands of people to reconnect with the past through these skills.  The book covers all the basics: shelter, fire, water, plants for food and medicine, hunting, working with stone and bone, bow and arrow, atlatl and dart, cordage, weaving, rawhide and tanning.  Thirty years after it was first published, Outdoor Survival Skills is still one of the best texts on the subject.  9" x 6" and 254 pages.  Both B&W and color photos.

 23107 - Outdoor Survival Skills - $16.50 

Naked into the Wilderness

Primitive Wilderness Living & Survival Skills

By John & Geri McPherson

If you are wanting to learn the everyday skills that are required to live for an extended period in the wilderness, this is the book for you.  With over 700 photos in 408 pages, Naked into the Wilderness is truly a training guide for real primitive living skills.  This book was written for the express purpose of teaching the audience "how-to" accomplish the task at hand.  The authors know of what they write.  This is not a compilation of other author's works nor a rehashing and perpetuation of myths.  The McPhersons not only know their stuff but also how to present it. 

23108 - Naked into the Wilderness - $24.00 

98.6 - The Art of Keeping Your Ass Alive

By Cody Lundin

This book is a nonstop thrill ride, jam-packed with common sense modern survival skills for the backcountry, the backyard, or the highway.  Author, Cody Lundin, founder and director of the Aboriginal Living Skills School, shares his own brand or wilderness wisdom based on the unique principle of keeping the body's core temperature at a lively 98.6 degrees.  Cody stresses that a human can live without food for weeks, and without water for several days.  But if the body's core temperature dips much below or above 98.6 degrees, a person can literally die within hours.  Together with illustrations and creative writing, this book is not only informative, but entertaining as well.

23106 - 98.6 - The Art of Keeping Your Ass Alive - $16.00    

Desert Survival Skills

By David Alloway

In simple, friendly language, enlivened with humor and stories from his own extensive experience, David Alloway offers a practical, comprehensive handbook for both short-term and long-term survival in the Chihuahuan and other North American deserts.  The topics include Priorities of Desert Survival, survival kits, water, fire, shelter, aiding rescuers, expedient vehicle repairs and uses, plant resources, animal resources, expedient tools and weapons, weather hazards, desert hazards, first aid, sanitation, traveling and way-finding, and more.  Desert Survival Skills is chock full with tips on staying alive.  Alloway blends memorable tales with useful scientific facts.

23109 - Desert Survival Skills - $20.00 

Wilderness Survival - 2nd Edition

By Gregory J. Davenport

With concise explanations and detailed illustrations, survival expert Gregory Davenport covers the five basic elements of survival, personal protection, signaling, finding food and water, travel, and health.  It also includes complete information on how to stay calm and alive until rescue arrives.  Completely updated with information on keeping yourself safe and healthy in the wilderness.  A comprehensive, well organized, and use-friendly guide to staying alive in the back country.   Measures 8-1/4" x 5-1/2" with 291 pages

23111 - Wilderness Survival - $19.95 

EMERGENCY SURVIVAL

A Pocket Guide

This Emergency Survival Pocket Guide is ideal for a survival kit.  It provides quick information for outdoor safety and survival to include Preparing for an emergency, essentials, a survival kit and first aid kit.  A section on Surviving in the Wilderness includes general survival procedures, evacuation plans, signaling, procuring water, being lost, navigation, shelter, fire, procuring food and special climates.  It also includes a large section on first aid.  Measures 4" x 6" x 1/8" thick.  

23103 - Emergency Survival Pocket Guide - $3.50 

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