What's Hot All Categories Email this Page Upload Your Video Your Account
Home > Books > Outdoors & Nature Books > Survival Skill Books > The Outdoor Survival Handbook: A Guide To The Resources & Material Available In The Wild & How To Use Them For Food, Shelter, Warmth, & Navigation
Smarter Video Review now playing for this product:

The Outdoor Survival Handbook: A Guide To The Resources & Material Available In The Wild & How To Use Them For Food, Shelter, Warmth, & Navigation

From: $10.76

Whether you are a novice hiker or camper, or a more experienced outdoorsperson who spend weeks or months in the wilderness The Outdoor Survival Handbook will help you make the most of your adventures in the great outdoors. Suvival-skills expert Raymond Mears delivers dependable, thorough, and easy-to-understand advice on every aspet of outdoor survival, season by season. The essential everyday skills you'll learn include how to:
construct a warm, waterproof shelter at any time of the year
build a good fire in all kinds of weather
gather, prepare, and cook wild foods for tasty and nutritional meals
identify medicinal herbs
collect and purify water
track and idenfity animals
orienteer using map, compass, and natural navigational aids
make tools and equipment from natural materials
and much more.
Filled with practical tips and hundreds of useful drawings and diagrams, this book will help outdoorspeople of all experience levels mater the art of taking full enjoyment in the wilderness without violating the natural wonders that surround them.

Not Yet Qualified

At Smarter.com, we aim to ensure we give you the most sound buying advice possible. With our 'Cumulative Product Rating' system, in order for a product to receive a rating score, it must have a minimum number of ratings to qualify.

This system is not intended to diminish the value of products with a low number of ratings and reviews, they're great, and hopefully very helpful, but if you want our advice, we want to make sure that the product you're thinking of buying has been rated and reviewed by enough shoppers like you to be a valuable indicator of product quality.

More Video Reviews

Sold at 2 Stores

Get price with tax & shipping*  
Sort by Price | Sort by Merchant
deepdiscount.com
 
close

DeepDiscount.com coupon info

  • Offer: Free Standard shipping on any order
  • Code: no code required
  • Expires: Aug 31, 2010
  • Click to use
  • Restrictions:
10.76
DeepDiscount.com

541 reviews
10.76
amazon
 
close

Amazon coupon info

  • Offer: FREE Shipping on orders over $25
  • Code: no code required
  • Expires: Dec 31, 2008
  • Click to use
  • Restrictions: Some restrictions apply. See site for details.
10.85
Amazon

7,818 reviews
10.85

Similar Products:

Channel Directory:

Science Fiction | Comic Books | Cookbooks | Biographies | Children's Books

Reviews

Love it (64%)  |  Hate it (18%)  |  On the Fence (18%)  |  Didn't Rate it (0%)
From: Amazon Posted: Sep 14, 2007 Type: User Review The Outdoor Survival Handbook

The subtitle of this book is: a guide to the resources and materials available in the wild and how to use them for food, shelter, warmth, and navigation. The author has parceled out his observations, instruction and advise according to the four...
read full review | report as inappropriate





3.00 Star Rating
3.00/5
From: Amazon Posted: Jun 01, 2007 Type: User Review Handy pocketguide

An excellent and handy pocketguide to survival, Ray Mears puts his knowledge in this book and it shows. The info is at hand, practical and easy to read.

Remember the old question, what book would you take with you to a deserted...
read full review | report as inappropriate





5.00 Star Rating
5.00/5
From: Amazon Posted: Nov 08, 2006 Type: User Review Good all around book

First, this book is not about wildnerness survival. The recipes that include garlic and butter are well, not practical if your lost in the woods. The book is more geared towards going into the wilderness with everything you need at your disposal,...
read full review | report as inappropriate





4.00 Star Rating
4.00/5
From: Amazon Posted: Jul 05, 2006 Type: User Review Roughin it up? Read this one first.

The book is very focused, informative and explained.
It could have a chapter on GPS, but we get it with the GPS so its ok not to have it here. And using a compas is explained.
On the plant food, the chapter could have been clearer. read full review | report as inappropriate





5.00 Star Rating
5.00/5
From: Amazon Posted: Jul 04, 2006 Type: User Review OUTDOOR SURVIVAL HANDBOOK

THIS BOOK IS EASY TO UNDERSTAND WHILE IT STILL GIVES YOU A LOT OF INFORMATION.
I WOULD RECCOMMEND THIS BOOK TO MY FRIENDS.
THNX,
BILL CUNNINGHAM
read full review | report as inappropriate





4.00 Star Rating
4.00/5

*Shipping costs are based on an estimate of the lowest shipping rate available within the contiguous US, excluding Alaska and Hawaii. Only merchants with this product in stock are listed (Merchants with this product back ordered have been removed from this list).

Do you see a pricing error? Please let us know by filling out a simple form: Click here

Note: Smarter.com is a comparison shopping website that compares prices and products at online stores to help consumers save money. Stores are responsible for providing us with accurate price and product information, including the proper codes for coupons, discounts and rebates. Tax and shipping costs are estimates. Please confirm all costs before making your final purchase at the online store. All merchant ratings, product reviews and video reviews are submitted by shoppers or third-party websites. We are not responsible for their content. If you have any concerns about content on our website, please contact us.