How to Stay Alive in the Woods: A Complete Guide to Food, Shelter and Self-Preservation Anywhere Kindle Edition

If you grew up hunting, fishing, and camping this is worthless. If you don't know how to hunt or fish, it will be worse for you. (Lots of one sentence 5 star reviews makes me doubt these are legitimate reviews.) Who feels strongly enough about a book to write a review and then can only muster up one sentence? This book simply does not have enough detail for anyone. Each section is a few paragraphs.Here is the full advice on how to catch game birds without a gun:"grouse promise feasts for anybody lost in the wilderness, especially as a few stones or sticks are often the only weapons needed to catch one. If one misses the first time, such foul usually will afford a second or even third chance to be captured."Now you know that you can apparently kill a grouse by throwing a stone at it. I grew up hunting grouse and you won't see one until you flush it out and it is flying away. You could try 1000 times and still not hit one with a stone. Even if you could get within 10 feet of a stationary target like a rabbit, it's unlikely you could throw a stone hard enough and accurately enough to hit it.The section on snares is more useful, but again, lacking in useful detail.

When I was a boy, sometime around 1975 or so, my parents brought me to Old Sturbridge Village. Afterwards, in the gift shop I saw this book. Somehow talked my old man into buying it for me. I read that book at least 50 times. I loved it.Well it’s quite a few years later, but I just finished reading it again. Look, it’s not War and Peace and it’s not the greatest how to manual ever written.It’s very dated and pretty simple. But it’s got some useful information. And it’s written with warmth and humor. If you’re serious about learning survival skills, check out Creek Stewart or Dave Canterbury.If you want a nice, nostalgic look at living simply in the outdoors in a simpler time-I think you’ll enjoy this. I have many times for many years.Thanks for readingP.S.: don’t trust a review from anyone stupid enough to refer to capitalism as an “antiquated economic system “.See below. lol (John P. S........)

Very dry humor. I'm not sure that I've learned anything in the skill department but I do enjoy reading this to people to make them laugh. Angier has a way with words that emits wit.

I bought this in hope that it would be a good guide to how to survive in the woods. What I got is the stream of consciousness ramblings of a woodsman. Are there some nuggets of wisdom? For sure, but the book is mainly vague ideas shared conversationally of what one might do. There is little truly step by step practical help that is stated clearly and would be easy to follow. Reading this book feels like getting cornered on the back porch at Thanksgiving by an eccentric relative as he rambles on about the good old days in the back 40.An example would be that the author goes on a tangent about how a person cannot survive without vitamin C in the woods but then fails to list any sources of vitamin C that could be found in the wilderness.Half the book is focused on sustenance but there are only a handful of traps and snares mentions with a single illustration per if you are lucky and most are outdated and inefficient.Speaking practicality, I would not choose to be stranded in the woods with this book.I wouldn't even suggest this book for beginners today because there is much better information available today even on the internet and in other books. I found the Air Force Survival Handbook to be a much better resource filled with invaluable information that is presented plainly and clearly.

Reading this book takes me back to an era - sometime in the 1950s - when men were the only ones expected to experience the great outdoors with any sort of skill. Most of the survival tactics are still relevant, but there is definitely a lot of "let's get after it, shall we, old chap?" language in there that is humorous at best, and dated/bordering on misogynistic and racist, at worst. However. If you can get past all that - and you should try - there is a wealth of information on "staying found," or the art of navigating strange and large places. There is also a helpful guide on which plants can be consumed and which are fatal to humans, materials to have for triaging wounds (both man-made and found in nature), and which type of wood is best to create and sustain fires that will keep you warm as you sleep. Of course, just reading this isn't sufficient, but thanks to the structure of the writing, putting these skills into practice seems less daunting than other guides I've read.

got this book for my wife who loves hiking in the woods with our 9 year old nephew and show him the different plants that are edible and explain about the different bugs and animals and such... this book should arm her with enough knowledge, hints, tips and tricks that Our nephew will think she is the best "survivalist" out there.. lol im just a touch upset that this isnt the version with the rubberized cover... lol Oh well, for $3.00 im not going to complain THAT much lol

A great read if you are into bushcraft or survivalism.I'd agree with some of the other comments about this being written for a different age, it misses out on some of the moremodern methods and techniques and the utilisation of modern equipment.It's also aimed at the American wilderness and not European environments.That said a great deal of it is still relative and useful and it's a great read in front of the fire, though if you need a reference manual to have with you in the bush and rely completely upon I'd suggest using a more modern guide.

Got it for my boyfriend for his birthday. He likes this stuff, and I find it to be good knowledge to have. Hope it'll be useful when we go on holiday to visit my mum and be out in the forest in Sweden. Good condition.

Perhaps more suited to an American audience. Better books in this field available.Excellent seller

I use this product frequently. I love it.

I'm reading this book with a German ESL student. It's quite advanced, but very enjoyable. Some of the material isn't relevant to where we live, but the parts that are are still applicable today.