When you can't dial 911...Many books describe how to provide "first aid," temporary medical care under emergency conditions. But all are based on the assumption that treatment is temporary until an ambulance, helicopter or hospital can take over. Yet in remote wilderness territory or disrupted civil conditions it may be days or even weeks before professional medical help can be obtained.
Far From Help goes beyond all standard texts. Written for those who may not even have a basic understanding of first aid, it also provides practical information for highly-skilled medical professionals who may suddenly find themselves without the technology and skills available in modern hospital conditions.
Far From Help is designed to go anywhere: in pack, glove compartment, canoe, kayak, cabin, small plane, snowmobile, handlebar bag, or trekker's back pack - instantly available at that crucial moment when it suddenly becomes worth far more than its weight in gold!
Peter Steele has faced the complex problems of wilderness medical emergencies for three decades, as physician and surgeon. From Labrador to Bhutan, from South America to the Yukon, he has treated climbers, trekkers, natives [even royalty]. His concise writing style gets directly to solving life-threatening problems and monitoring the patient's recovery. An absolutely "must have" book for your self-reliance, first-aid and emergency medical library!
Paperback, 241 pages.
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"The SAS Survival Handbook: How to Survive in the Wild, in Any Climate, on Land or at Sea" - John Wiseman [Note: this is the US edition; the British edition is shown above - the contents are the same in both editions, only the covers and sizes differ]
"The Complete Wilderness Training Book" - Hugh McManners
"Camping And Woodcraft" - Horace Kephart
"Wilderness Living" - Gregory J. Davenport
"Wilderness Survival" - Gregory J. Davenport
"Primitive Wilderness Living and Survival Skills: Naked into the Wilderness" - John McPherson and Geri McPherson
"Primitive Wilderness Skills, Applied And Advanced" - John McPherson and Geri McPherson
"Primitive Technology: A Book of Earth Skills" - David Wescott, Society of Primitive Technology
"Primitive Technology II: Ancestral Skills from the Society of Primitive Technology" - edited by David Wescott, Society of Primitive Technology
"Participating in Nature: Thomas J. Elpel's Field Guide to Primitive Living Skills" - Thomas J. Elpel
"Making Arrows the Old Way" - Doug Wallentine
"Old Tools, New Eyes: A Primal Primer of Flintknapping
" - Bob Patten and Richard Jagoda
"Early Hunting Tools: An Introduction to Flintknapping" - Matt Gravelle
"Flintknapping" - Paul Hellweg
"Flintknapping: Making and Understanding Stone Tools" - John C. Whittaker
"Earth Knack: Stone Age Skills for the 21st Century" - John C. Whittaker
"US Army Survival Manual: FM 21-76" - Department of Defense
"How To Survive On Land And Sea" - Frank C. Craighead
"Aboman's Guide to Survival And Self-Reliance: Practical Skills for Interesting Times" - Joseph A. Bigley
"Practical Outdoor Survival: A Modern Approach" - Len McDougall
"Identifying and Harvesting Edible and Medicinal Plants" - Steve Brill
"Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants" - Bradford Angier
"Edible Wild Plants" - Thomas S. Elias, Peter A. Dykeman
"Tom Brown's Guide to Wild Edible and Medicinal Plants" - Tom Brown, Jr
"Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants: Eastern and Central North America" - Roger Tory Peterson and Lee A. Peterson
"The Encyclopedia of Edible Plants of North America" - Francois Couplan, Ph.D., and James A. Duke
"A Field Guide to Medicinal Plants and Herbs: Of Eastern and Central North America" - James A. Duke and Steven Foster
"Tom Brown's Field Guide to Wilderness Survival" - Tom Brown, Jr.
"Outdoor Survival Skills" - Larry Dean Olsen and Robert Redford
"How To Stay Alive In The Woods" - Bradford Angier
"Basic Wilderness Survival Skills" - Bradford Angier