Wilderness Survival: Living Off the Land with the Clothes on Your Back and the Knife on Your Belt

Mark Elbroch · Michael Pewtherer

May 2006 · McGraw Hill Professional

About this ebook

Do you have what it takes?

You’re alone in the wilderness with nothing but a knife and the clothes on your back. Will you survive? Do you have the skills to feed, clothe, and protect yourself? Mark Elbroch, a master tracker, and Mike Pewtherer, a woodland skills educator, put those questions to the test when they embarked on a 46-day, unprovisioned, unequipped journey into the dense wilderness of the northeastern United States.

Wilderness Survival is their highly practical and uniquely observant introduction to survival in the deep woods. Mark and Mike tested generally accepted truths, questioned conventional solutions, and distilled the best techniques for making fire, obtaining shelter, finding water, and hunting with primitive weapons. They give you:

• A life-saving handbook of survival skills that explores man's place in the natural world

• The secret to surviving in the wilderness as part of nature—not its adversary

• Explanations of more than 30 wilderness survival skills, including hunting and gathering food, fashioning tools, and preserving and storing food

Ratings and reviews

I'm very interested in bushcraft so I have a couple of manuals.. This book caught my attention because of it's descriptions.. This isn't a straight forward manual, instead it's a wonderful and lively tale of a couple of friends who decide to live in and with nature.. The journal like writing style is absolutely wonderful, and takes you right there with them! In between there are invaluable notes, manuals en step-by-steps! It took me by surprise, and now has me hooked and got me reading it a couple of times! Worth every penny imho!

Good read!

Good survival book.

About the author

Mark Elbroch’s numerous books include the National Outdoor Award-winning Mammal Tracks and Sign. Mike Pewtherer has contributed to Wilderness Way magazine and has practiced and taught wilderness survival for many years through his company, Woodland Ways.