A classic outdoor manual [that] addresses every conceivable disaster scenario. Don't leave home without it--Outside magazine
The ultimate guide to surviving anywhere, now updated with more than 100 pages of additional material, including a new chapter on urban survival
Revised to reflect the latest in survival knowledge and technology, and covering new topics such as urban survival and terrorism, the multimillion-copy worldwide bestseller SAS Survival Handbook by John Lofty Wiseman is the definitive resource for all campers, hikers, and outdoor adventurers. From basic campcraft and navigation to fear management and strategies for coping with any type of disaster, this complete course includes:
Being prepared: Understanding basic survival skills, like reading the weather, and preparation essentials, such as a pocket survival kit.
Making camp: Finding the best location, constructing the appropriate shelter, organizing camp, staying warm, and creating tools.
Food: What to eat, what to avoid, where to find it, and how to prepare it.
First aid: A comprehensive course in emergency/wilderness medicine, including how to maximize survival in any climate or when injured.
Disaster survival: How to react in the face of natural disasters and hostile situations--and how to survive if all services and supplies are cut off.
Self-defense: Arming yourself with basic hand-to-hand combat techniques.
Security: Protecting your family and property from intrusion, break-ins, and theft.
Climate & terrain: Overcoming any location, from the tropics to the poles, from the desert to the mountains and sea.
**From the #1 bestselling camping guidebook brand Where Should We Camp Next?**
The essential planning guidebook for anyone searching for fun, memorable travel destinations--on a budget!
The outdoor adventure landscape is vast, exciting, and accessible to everyone! Whether you're searching for a relaxing beach vacation, exciting mountain adventure, or calming forest retreat, Where Should We Camp Next?: Budget Camping will help you find the best destinations, free and low-cost activities, and accommodations that won't break the bank. Family camping and RV experts Stephanie and Jeremy Puglisi make it easy for you to plan an unforgettable travel experience anywhere in the United States by sharing hard-to-find information about budget-friendly camping options, including:
Where Should We Camp Next?: Budget Camping makes it easy to travel to our country's most beautiful destinations for a fraction of the cost of more expensive options--allowing you to stress less about the cost of your vacation and spend more time enjoying trips with the people you love the most.
Are you prepared to face the unpredictable challenges of the wilderness?
Whether you're a seasoned adventurer or a novice stepping into the great outdoors for the first time, Wilderness Survival Hacks is your guide to surviving and thriving in the wild.
This comprehensive manual is designed for anyone who seeks to navigate the complexities of the natural world with confidence and ease.
Wilderness Survival Hacks offers a deep dive into the critical skills and knowledge needed for wilderness survival, including:
Beyond mere survival, this book delves into advanced strategies for living off the land and self-rescue, ensuring you're prepared for long-term wilderness living and unexpected challenges.
With practical advice, step-by-step instructions, and real-life scenarios, Wilderness Survival Hacks equips you with the tools to face any situation confidently.
Whether you're planning your next outdoor adventure or simply seeking to expand your survival knowledge, Wilderness Survival Hacks is an invaluable resource that will empower you to embrace the wilderness with confidence.
Don't venture into the unknown without it. Grab your copy today and take the first step towards becoming a master of wilderness survival.
As the quintessential resource for hiking and backpacking in Maine, the Appalachian Mountain Club's Maine Mountain Guide provides all the information an outdoorsperson could want when exploring the Pine Tree State. This new 12th edition has seen every trail and statistic fully reviewed and updated, while adding nearly 100 new trails, 30 new mountains, and 6 in-text maps. Expanded coverage of Baxter State Park, Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument, the 100-Mile Wilderness, and throughout the state means that hikers of all skill levels and experience can find the perfect trek. With suggested hikes, trip-planning and safety information, and included full-color, GPS-rendered pull-out maps, hikers and backpackers simply cannot venture into the backwoods or coastal areas of Maine without this guide.
The Deluxe Masterpiece on Outdoors Living, Bushcraft, and Wilderness Travel
This deluxe, unabridged reprint Legacy Edition of Horace Kephart's 1916-1917 Camping And Woodcraft as a combined two volumes in one version has served as the standard for outdoors adventure for many decades after it was published, and continues that legacy today with its timeless knowledge it contains First published in 1921 as a two-volumes-in-one version, this is a significantly expanded version of Kephart's original 1906 work (The Book of Camping and Woodcraft Original Edition). This deluxe expanded version provides hundreds of additional pages of insights, tricks, tips, and skills instruction for thriving in camp and in the wilderness.
This handbook was originally published in two separate volumes due to its size, however is published in a combined volume here in the exact way the 1921 2-in-1 version was published.
In Volume I - Camping, Kephart provides detailed instruction on camping, camp equipment, and outdoor life. This includes setting up your camping gear and outfit, tents, camp equipment, bedding, clothing, how to make your camp, camp fire making, how to dress game and fish, and many old-time recipes perfect for the camp kitchen.
In Volume II - Woodcraft, Kephart provides instruction and advice on travel in the outdoors, nature lore, navigation skills, conquering the biting and stinging pests of the woods, emergencies, knots, and other necessary skills.
This Doublebit Press Legacy Edition continues with this tradition by presenting the original volumes in their exact form as they were published by the now-defunct Outing Publishing Company. Enjoy dozens of vintage line-art illustrations within the book as well, especially in the sections on tents and camp equipment
Enjoy your copy of Camping And Woodcraft for its historical record of the earliest days of recreational camping. Some material, of course, is past its time. However, most of the material is timeless Perhaps you may even learn an old skill or two.
This book makes a perfect gift for camping enthusiasts, outsoorspeople, campers, hunters, bushcrafters, scouts, and historians. This book represents the rich history of the camping tradition, and belongs on the bookshelf of every outdoors enthusiast
A part of the Library of American Outdoors Classics.
This Doublebit Legacy Edition facsimile reprint of Camping And Woodcraft is professionally restored and presented from the exact original source with the highest degree of fidelity possible. Available in both paperback and hardcover, readers can enjoy this Legacy Edition for generations to come and learn from its timeless knowledge for years to come.
About the Doublebit Press Library of American Outdoors Classics
Sometimes we need to remember our history to move forward. Sometimes, remembering our heritage is just fun or inspirational. With technology playing a major role in everyday life, sometimes we need to take a step back in time to find those basic building blocks used for gaining mastery - the things that we have luckily not completely lost and has been recorded in books over the last two centuries. These skills aren't forgotten, they've just been shelved. It's time to unshelve them once again and reclaim the lost knowledge of self-sufficiency
In Primitive Camping and Bushcraft, author and outdoor survival expert Chris Speir provides readers with all of the information they need to participate in the most exciting, adventurous type of camping, safely and with confidence. In primitive camping, campers do without the standard resources one can find at a more traditional campsite, making do with whatever they bring in.
Chris Speir, an expert at primitive camping technique, is the founder of Speir Outdoors, an online education resource that teaches viewers how to camp, the basics of bushcraft and survival technique, ensuring that every trip into the wild is one taken with confidence in one's ability to overcome whatever challenge they may come across. In this book, Speir covers a wide range of topics, enhanced throughout with full-color photography the details exactly how to perform each and every technique. Skills and technique covered include: - What to know before you goFully updated and revised, Camping Arizonacontains detailed information on more than 150 public campgrounds in Arizona. It's a guide for everyone from tenters to RVers.
The White Mountains of New Hampshire boast some of the Northeast's best and most famous hiking trails. This new edition of AMC's Best Day Hikes in the White Mountains provides readers with 60 of the greatest day hikes in the area, from Tuckerman Ravine to Crawford Notch to Flume Gorge, with five brand new hikes included in this edition.
Whether readers are looking for a short family outing or are avid hikers making a full-day excursion, AMC's Best Day Hikes in the White Mountains makes it easy to find the perfect hike for all skill levels. Each trip includes a detailed map showing parking areas, trailheads, and natural highlights, along with summaries of time, distance, and difficulty level. A handy, at-a-glance trip planner makes it easy to find the best trails for kids, dogs, wheelchair access, and winter snowshoeing and skiing.
From the Green Mountains that give the state its name to the shores of Lake Champlain to the southern woodlands, Vermont is made for hikers. AMC's Best Day Hikes in Vermont features 60 expertly curated hikes for all skill levels. Each entry includes a detailed map, plus summaries of time, distance, and difficulty level. The book's at-a-glance trip planner highlights the best hikes near public transportation, that are wheelchair accessible, for kids, for canine companions, and more.
This fully revised guide includes classic hikes such as Camel's Hump, Mount Mansfield, and sections of the Long and Appalachian trails, along with new additions Raven Ridge, Killington Peak, Moose Bog, and more. Whether you're looking for an exploration of nature or to bag a 4,000-footer, this guide is indispensable.
Kephart's original how-to manual for the outdoors This is the original handbook from the master of outdoors instruction. In this Legacy Edition premium reprint of the first version of Kephart's masterwork (in its final fifth edition printing), learn all of the essential, but often forgotten skills of classic camping and outdoors travel, including camping, camp cookery, clothing, hiking and wayfinding, outdoors gear and outfits, beating bugs and the elements, handling emergency situations, woods tools and axemanship, catching your dinner by hunting and fishing, and tanning skins and pelts.
This first version of this book (in its final fifth edition, printed 1912) is the shorter, more concise publication compared to Kephart's later expansion of this work, called Camping and Woodcraft from 1917 (over 800 pages total sold as two volumes combined). Note: This printing is of the fifth edition of the first version (1912), not the first edition (1906). It has been expanded by the author from the previous four editions.
About the Doublebit Press Library of American Outdoors Classics
With technology playing a major role in everyday life, sometimes we need to take a step back in time to find those basic building blocks used for gaining mastery - the things that we have luckily not completely lost and has been recorded in books over the last two centuries. These skills aren't forgotten, they've just been shelved. It's time to unshelve them once again and reclaim the lost knowledge of self-sufficiency.
As a part of the Doublebit Press Library of American Outdoors Classics, this Legacy Edition volume is reprinted in the exact form as it was presented in the original publication. Great care has been taken by the publishing team to preserve this work with clean images, clear text, and high-quality photographic editing.
For outdoors enthusiasts who demand the best from their equipment, this Doublebit Press Legacy Edition reprint was made with you in mind. Both important and minor details have equally both been accounted for by our publishing staff, down to the cover, font, layout, and images. It is the goal of Doublebit Legacy Edition series to preserve outdoors heritage, but also be cherished as collectible pieces, worthy of collection in any outdoorsperson's library and that can be passed to future generations.
Every book selected to be in this series offers unique views and instruction on important skills, advice, tips, tidbits, anecdotes, stories, and experiences that will enrichen the repertoire of any person who enjoys escaping the city and finding their way to the trails of the wilds. To learn the most basic building blocks of outdoors life leads to mastery of all its aspects. This book is an important contribution to the early American recreational outdoors literature and has important historical and collector value toward preserving the American outdoors tradition.
The goal of the Library of American Outdoors Classics is to preserve and share the works from forgotten teachers of outdoors life that form the cornerstone of the history of the American outdoors. Through remastered reprint editions of timeless classics of outdoor recreation, perhaps lost knowledge can be regained for future generations. The books in this library have been chosen because much of the basic skills and knowledge they contain have been forgotten or put to the wayside in lieu of more modern conveniences and methods. This volume is worth close study as well as collection by outdoors folk in the modern era of outdoors and traditional skills life.
2020 Reprint of the 1921 Two Volume Expanded Edition. Nearly 900 pages with numerous illustrations. Full facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition software. The first volume was originally published in 1906 as The Book of Camping and Woodcraft. Kephart expanded the work into two volumes in 1916. This is the expanded edition in its entirety. Camping and Woodcraft ranks sixth among the ten best-selling sporting books of all time. The subtitle is: A Handbook for Vacation Campers and for Travelers in the Wilderness, and it covers all aspects of this experience encyclopedically. A standard manual for campers and a veritable outdoor enthusiast's bible for over four decades, this book reflects Horace Kephart's practical knowledge and covers, in depth, any problem that campers might confront.
Contents: Volume I: Camping. Vacation time -- Outfitting -- Tents for fixed camps -- Furniture, tools, and utensils for fixed camps -- Tents for shifting camps -- Types of light tents -- Light camp equipment -- Camp bedding -- Clothing -- Personal kits -- Provisions -- Camp making -- The camp-fire -- Pests of the woods -- Dressing and keeping game and fish -- Camp cookery, meats -- Camp cookery, game -- Camp cookery, fish and shellfish -- Camp cookery, cured meats, etc., eggs -- Camp cookery, breadstuffs and cereals -- Camp cookery, vegetables, soups -- Beverages and desserts -- Cook's miscellany -- Index --
Volume II: Woodcraft. Woodcraft -- Getting lost, bivouacs -- Pathfinding -- Nature's guide posts -- Blazes, survey lines, use of the compass --Route sketching, mapping, measuring -- Trips afoot -- Packs for pedestrians -- How to walk, a hunter's pack, going alone -- Concentrated foods -- Marksmanship in the woods -- Axemanship, qualities and utilization of wood -- Tomahawk, shelters, axeman's camps, caches, masked camps -- Cabin building, rustic furniture -- Bark utensils, bast ropes and twine, root and vine cordage, withes and splits -- Knots, hitches and lashings -- Trophies, pelts, buckskin, and rawhide -- Tanning skins, other animal products -- Cave exploration -- Bee hunting -- Edible plants of the wilderness -- Living off the country, in extremis -- Accidents and emergencies: their backwoods treatment -- Index.
Kephart lived in the Great Smoky Mountains and spent most of his time in the wild. Consequently, he became an expert on all aspects of camp life from living in a semi-permanent lean-to to traveling with only the bare essentials in a backpack. More than simply a hunting or fishing guide, Kephart's book covers a wide variety of subjects from how to dress game and fish to how to shoot accurately. Every chapter is filled with tips that remain useful even after many years of improvements in equipment and technology.
Packed with camping fundamentals, such as tips on essential kit, how to start a fire, what to look for in a good site and a few challenges you may encounter, this little book also includes quotes that celebrate the great outdoors. Whether your preference is a caravan, a treehouse, a yurt or a simple pegged tent under the stars, it's the best way to get exercise and enjoy nature.
Nessmuk - The Dean of the Outdoors
Pick up your premium reprint Legacy Edition of Nessmuk's Woodcraft In perhaps the best-known and best-selling book on camping of all-time, Nessmuk (George W. Sears) shares his vast knowledge of the wild ways and life outdoors. Finding solace in the woods from ill health in the city, Nessmuk found himself a solo canoe and traveled the American Adirondacks. Inspired by the natural beauty and the ability of nature to restore vitality, Nessmuk penned this oft-cited classic volume on camping, wilderness, and woodcraft skills.
After collecting stories, tips, tidbits, and tricks of the outdoors, Nessmuk's first version of Woodcraft was published in 1884, representing the first well-known how-to manual for the outdoors.
Perhaps Nessmuk's most famous line in this book inspires folks to get outside and enjoy nature's way of recharging our batteries: We do not go out to the woods to rough it; we go to smooth it - we get it rough enough in town. But let us live the simple, natural life in the woods, and leave all frills behind.
This Legacy Edition of Woodcraft is a facsimile reprint of the twelfth printing (1900). Its many printings have been consistently published throughout the 19th, 20th, and 21st Centuries. Enjoy this handbook by the Dean of the Outdoors - there's a ton of tricks and tips to glean from its pages
About the Doublebit Press Library of American Outdoors Classics
With technology playing a major role in everyday life, sometimes we need to take a step back in time to find those basic building blocks used for gaining mastery - the things that we have luckily not completely lost and has been recorded in books over the last two centuries. These skills aren't forgotten, they've just been shelved. It's time to unshelve them once again and reclaim the lost knowledge of self-sufficiency.
As a part of the Doublebit Press Library of American Outdoors Classics, this Legacy Edition volume is reprinted in the exact form as it was presented in the original publication. Great care has been taken by the publishing team to preserve this work with clean images, clear text, and high-quality photographic editing.
For outdoors enthusiasts who demand the best from their equipment, this Doublebit Press Legacy Edition reprint was made with you in mind. Both important and minor details have equally both been accounted for by our publishing staff, down to the cover, font, layout, and images. It is the goal of Doublebit Legacy Edition series to preserve outdoors heritage, but also be cherished as collectible pieces, worthy of collection in any outdoorsperson's library and that can be passed to future generations.
The goal of the Library of American Outdoors Classics is to preserve and share the works from forgotten teachers of outdoors life that form the cornerstone of the history of the American outdoors. Through remastered reprint editions of timeless classics of outdoor recreation, perhaps lost knowledge can be regained for future generations. The books in this library have been chosen because much of the basic skills and knowledge they contain have been forgotten or put to the wayside in lieu of more modern conveniences and methods. This volume is worth close study as well as collection by outdoors folk in the modern era of outdoors and traditional skills life.