TOM BROWN'S FIELD GUIDE TO WILDERNESS SURVIVAL by Tom Brown Jnr. 1983 / 276 pages.
This long awaited handbook by the
director of the world-famous Tracking, Nature and Wilderness Survival School is
the first of its kind. Like FOXFIRE it preserves knowledge that was in danger of
being lost forever, but reaches even deeper into the past. It is about the
basics. In it you will find much that was forgotten: the most ancient and
essential skills of humankind, presented in a comprehensive and usable new
four-part wilderness survival library, of which this first volume forms the
heart. 'How to build natural shelters in plains, woods or deserts. How to get
safe drinking water from plants, trees, the sun of the earth itself. How to make
fire without matches and maintain it in any weather. How to find, stalk, kill
and prepare animals for food. The "big four" edible plants, and
hundreds of others useful for both nutrition and medicine.'
