35 of 35 people found the following review helpful:
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Survival and Outdoor Skills That Work!!! Finally!!!, 12 May 1998
By A Customer
This review is from: Bushcraft: Outdoor Skills and Wilderness Survival (Paperback)
After years of being an outdoor enthusiast, I have finally found a book that gives practical, well thought out, easy to follow explanations of techniques of survival and practical outdoor skills. All too often I have found that survival skills authors seem to simply lift a technique from a book written by someone else 20 years before. It doesn't seem to matter if it works or not, or whether the conditions have to be exactly right for it to work, they just paste it into their books. It has become obvious that most of the authors have never even tried many of the tecniques since the techniques they write about don't work or need such specific conditions to work that you never find the exact right conditions in which to use the techniques. This book is different.
Every single skill presented is detailed and clear. They have all worked for me in REAL conditions. It is obvious that the author has not only written about the skills, but has spent long hours LIVING the skills and perfecting them. There is advice and observations that I have found nowhere else, another good indication that the author has written from experience rather than from reading what other people have already written and regurgitating outdated or worthless knowledge (and knowledge that doesn't work becomes dangerous in the bush). His attention to detail (he even drew all the drawings in the book himself)and his great concern for safety in performance of the skills goes unmatched.
I would hardily recommend this book to anyone who wants to feel a little safer when they may be faced with an unexpected emergency, whether you are a backpacker, mountaineer, camper, outdoor enthusiast, or simply driving in your vehicle in a snow storm. This book could save your life one day, when you least expect it.
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22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
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Expert survival and woods skills with a Northern bent, 23 Oct 1998
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This review is from: Bushcraft: Outdoor Skills and Wilderness Survival (Paperback)
If you live in the northern climes you are a fool not to get this book. If you live anywhere else it will still be invaluable! Really good thorough and easy to follow instructions on axemanship, knifecraft, fire-making, shelter building, cordage & rope, bark containers, working with birch, conifers, willows, moose and snow! A bestseller in Canada, with a cult following in the US.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Very informative, yet Straight-forward and simple to understand., 6 Oct 2007
This review is from: Bushcraft: Outdoor Skills and Wilderness Survival (Paperback)
This is a great book for anyone wanting to learn bushcraft and survival skills. Mors Kochanski has broken the different aspects and skills down into simple stages, with easy to follow diagrams. I was particularly pleased to find that he uses non technical language to explain things. This book is full of useful information. A nice easy read and well worth the money.
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