Ultimate Guide to Wilderness Living: Surviving with Nothing But Your Bare Hands and What You Find in the Woods

by John McPherson, Geri McPherson

Overview

The comprehensive guide to surviving in the wild by two of the foremost experts in survival skills and primitive wilderness living.

Survival experts John and Geri McPherson live on forty-six acres of undeveloped land in the flinthills of Kansas. For years, they have taught primitive survival skills to US military special forces, including A-Teams, Rangers, Seals, and others. Packed with in-depth instruction and photos, their Ultimate Guide to Wilderness Living teaches you the skills need to survive and live in the wild using only those things found in the woods.

This volume teaches you how to:

• Erect temporary and semi-permanent shelters
• Ignite a fire with a two-stick hand drill
• Chip stones and bones into primitive tools
• Trap animals and hunt with a bow and arrow
• Fire pots, weave blankets, and tan buckskin
• Prepare and cook wild foods
• Much more

“During my first years of learning survival I took a course in survival and primitive earth skills taught by John and Geri McPherson . . . They don’t just teach this stuff, they live it . . . I have been able to understand survival because of John and Geri, and can highly recommend this book.” —Les Stroud, AKA Survivorman

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781569753583
Publisher:	Ulysses Press
Publication date:	02/10/2022
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	330
File size:	24 MB
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About the Author

Married for over 20 years, John & Geri McPherson live on 46 acres of undeveloped land in the flinthills of Kansas. Everything man made on their property has been done by them. They have taught many members of the military Special Operations Forces including A-Teams, Rangers, and Seals. Twice a year, they run a special class on strictly primitive wilderness living & survival skills for instructors from the US Army's Special Warfare Command's S.E.R.E. survival school.

Table of Contents

Foreword     vii
Introduction     ix
Primitive Fire and Cordage     1
Primitive Tools-Making and Using Them     35
Primitive, Semipermanent Shelters     75
Makin' Meat - 1     101
Makin' Meat - 2     145
Deer from Field to Freezer     181
Primitive Wilderness Cooking Methods     201
Primitive Wilderness Containers     221
Primitive Pottery     247
Brain-Tan Buckskin     273
Resources     312
About the Authors     316