'Field Skills For Adventure In The Outdoors' by Hugh McManners
This Book May One Day Save Your Life! Whether you are an avid outdoors enthusiast or a tentative tenderfoot, whether you are planning a major wilderness sojourn or would simply like to ensure that you have the knowledge and techniques in case of future need, 'The Complete Wilderness Training Book' will teach you the skills for living in the wild - from setting up camp to finding food and from surviving a blizzard to signaling for help.
Getting Back To Basics: Do you know how to make a fire? Build a shelter? Collect rainwater? 'The Complete Wilderness Training Book' clearly demonstrates hundreds of specific techniques for staying warm and dry, obtaining food annd water, traveling safely in the wilderness, and getting help. With more than 950 colour photographs and illustrations, including many step-by-step sequences, this book explains in detail all the field skills you need to successfully survive in the wilderness.
Survival Skills, Taught By An Expert: Do you know the rules for traveling over mountains, across deserts or through thick forests or jungles? What do you do when confronted by a wild animal? How to prepare for an impending natural disaster? 'The Complete Wilderness Training Book' helps you meet every adversity and shows you how resourcefulness can help you survive safely in any emergency.
Offering an unparalled understanding of the outdoors, the richly-illustrated 'The Complete Wilderness Training Book' will enable every reader - expert and novice alike - to sharpen their survival skills, increase their preparation level, and to move, live and find shelter in the wilderness with absolute confidence!
Hugh McManners is a graduate of Oxford University and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. While in the British Army, he worked as a jungle warfare training instructor in Central America, a combat survival instructor, and an army diving supervisor. His combat experience includes working on long-range, deep-penetration patrols behind enemy lines during the Falklands War and commanding a company in Northern Ireland. He retired from the Army in 1989 as a major.Hugh McManners is the author of The Scars Of War, Falkland Commando, Crowning The Dragon and Dragon. He has contributed to a wide range of publications, including The Daily Telegraph, The Observer, Geographical Magazine, and The Elite, and he edits Command magazine. He also works in television production; recent productions include P-Company and the seven-part series Commando.
192 pages, paperback.
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