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Ultimate Guide to Wilderness Living: Surviving with Nothing But Your Bare Hands and What You Find in the Woods | 
 enlarge | Authors: John Mcpherson, Geri Mcpherson
Publisher: Ulysses Press
Category: Book
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Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 70568
Media: Paperback
Pages: 380
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.9
ISBN: 1569756503
Dewey Decimal Number: 613.69
EAN: 9781569756508
ASIN: 1569756503
Publication Date: May 28, 2008
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Product Description
Forget reality TV stunts like eating bugs, the Ultimate Guide to Wilderness Living provides in-depth instructions and step-by-step photos of real survival skills--exactly what one needs to stay alive in the woods. The book first covers immediate needs like starting a fire, erecting temporary shelter, and finding food. Then it goes beyond other survival books by explaining advanced techniques for long-term living in the wild -- using only those things found in nature. The authors show how to make tools by chipping stones, fashion a bow-and-arrow out of tree branches, weave baskets, fire primitive pots, build a semi-permanent shelter, and even tan hides. Finally, the authors explain how to bring all these skills together to live in the wilderness for days, weeks, months, or even years.
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 Hardcore Survival December 30, 2008
ZionJudah (Atlanta, GA USA)
As other reviews state the photos deffinately need to be updated but over all this is a great book on survival. I would like to stress again to the authors and publisher, please update the photos!!!!
To potential buyers of this book, do not let the negative comments about the photos deter you from purchasing this book. It is a wealth of knowledge. Not only does it give you detailed instructions on how to live in the wilderness with nothing, it is written in a way that will stir your mind to find other solutions to surival issues.
Unfortunately this book separates the men from the boys and I found out that I am still a pre-pubesent teen.
BUY THE BOOK!
Ultimate Guide to Wilderness Living December 1, 2008
E. Dorney (Lancaster, PA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is seriously hardcore, or perhaps for the seriously hardcore. Its chapters cover the basics of life in the wilderness ("Primitive Fire and Cordage," "Primitive, Semipermanent Shelters," "Primitive Wilderness Cooking Methods") as well as the gritty details of making it in the great outdoors. Readers looking for step-by-step instructions on how to brain-tan a buckskin, field dress a fresh kill, or eat a mouse without catching Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome have come to the right place.
The authors, John & Geri McPherson, boast respectable qualifications. John, with eight years of experience as a paratrooper, and his wife Geri are in their fourth year of teaching primitive skills to the survival instructors of the U.S. Army Special Operations Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape (SERE) school. Since 1978 they have lived on their own homestead complete with log home, outhouse, gravity-fed water and lacking electricity.
The book features over 600 step-by-step photos (no, I didn't count them). However, most of the photos leave much to be desired. A higher quality color camera would have been a wise investment. The conversational writing style is bearable while the photo captions are continually unclear and unwieldy. But let's face it folks, if you're choosing to read this book, you're not interested in a well-written literary tale about a fantasy night out camping in the woods; you need the dirty, descriptive details and you need them NOW.
The book bills itself perfectly, giving readers exactly what it promises. Hopefully, if I ever find myself in the woods with nothing but my bare hands and have to survive, I will have had the librarian-esque foresight to cache this book in a stone-lined, clay-sealed pit for future reference. Alas, it's doubtful...
Many thanks to Mini Book Expo for Bloggers and Ulysses Press for this free copy of Ultimate Guide to Wilderness Living. More of my book reviews can be found at: [...]
 Tired rehash of earlier books October 14, 2008
Outside
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I looked forward to seeing the "New Book" from these authors and was sorely disappointed when it arrived. Time would have been well spent by the authors and the publisher to take an editing ax to this book. The core information is good, but it seems as if the authors kept a journal of their experiments and after doing them once or twice for the first book, did not try again thus the lack of any new observations, improved illustrations/photos or any other noticeable change. The cutesy backwoods rambling with all it's poor grammar, was fun for the first book, tolerable for the second and downright irritating for this tired rehash of their earlier books. To be picked up by a publisher and then squander that opportunity is a real pity and a ripoff to those who already have the same material under the original title.
 First nation-wide publication of "Naked into the Wilderness" June 13, 2008
Karma (Oakland, CA USA)
6 out of 10 found this review helpful
This is the McPherson's comprehensive book on surviving in the wilderness. It is incredibly detailed with tons of photos. It covers everything: how and where to make your shelter, (long-term or short-term) how to capture and prepare food, building weapons, baskets and cordage, even avoiding illness. There are probably few others living in the Western world that still have these skills.
In response to the reviewers who downgraded this because it is a new release of an "old" book: shame on you. The previous version of this book, Naked Into the Wilderness, was in fact self-published. This is the first nation-wide release of the book, meaning it can now be found in bookstores from coast-to-coast. You may condescend to those of us who didn't know about the book before it was published nationally but that is hardly any reason to down-grade what you KNOW to be a top-notch product. There are hundreds of different printings of the Art of War under various titles, are you going to spend all day down-ranking that simply because it has been reprinted for a couple thousand years?
I agree it would have been nice to have new photos for this book, though these have been cleaned up some from the self-published version. The book has more than six hundred photos, taken over years and years of research. Did you really expect they were going to be able to redo that in a matter of months? Get real.
But I digress. Bottom line: If you could take one thing with you to a "deserted island" let it be this book.
Same book, different title June 8, 2008
Travis Beasland (Australia)
8 out of 10 found this review helpful
This is a great book. The information is top notch. All the skills are presented in easy to follow, step-by-step instructions. I don't really have a problem with the photos either. I do think it's important that people know that this isn't a new book from the McPhersons, it is "Naked into the Wilderness" Primitive Wilderness Living & Survival Skills. The only new thing in this book is the title. All the information is the same, they've just changed the order of the chapters. Hopefully this information will save others from spending their hard earned cash on this book (plus international shipping) only to find that they already have the same book with a different cover sitting on the shelf.
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