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Title: Wilderness Survival by Gregory J. Davenport ISBN: 0-8117-2985-0 Publisher: Stackpole Books Pub. Date: April, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.48 (27 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Davenport's book is an outstanding educational tool!
Comment: Greg Davenport's simple approach to Wilderness Survival is the key to this user friendly educational text.
Greg posts on several of the wilderness survival forums. Through his book and posts I have come to understand his unique approach to wilderness survival. He believes that it is based on ones ability to do three things:
1. Stop and recognize the situation for what it is.
2. Identify your "five survival essentials" and prioritize them, in order of importance, for the environment that you are in.
3. Improvise to meet your needs using both your manmade and natural resources.
His book covers this process. It explains in step by step format how to meet your "five survival essentials" in every global environment. Davenport believes that these essentials are constant and the only thing that changes (from one climate to another) is the order and method in which they are met. These "five survival essentials" are:
1. Personal Protection (clothing, shelter, fire)
2. Signaling (manmade and improvised)
3. Sustenance (water and food ID, procurement, and preparation)
4. Travel (with and without a map and compass)
5. Health (psychological stress, traumatic and environmental injuries).
Davenport covers this information and more in his book (preview the table of contents). If you travel outdoors and are interested in learning about wilderness survival buy this book! You will not be disappointed.
Rating: 5
Summary: Finally a book that focuses on wilderness survival
Comment: Wilderness survival and wilderness living are not the same thing!!!
Like the previous reviewers - I have read most of the survival books on the market and I agree that this is hands down the best one out there. It covers all aspects of survival:
1. personal protection (clothing, shelter, fire)
2. signaling
3. sustenance (water and food)
4. travel (using a map and compass)
5. health (psychological stress, traumatic and environmental injuries)
I agree with a previous post -- its navigation chapter is the best I have seen and has really helped me master this skill. In addition, Greg Davenport's medical experience is apparent - his health section is by far the best I have seen in a book related to wilderness survival...
In a time when most survival books are actually about living in the wilderness ... it is good to find a book that focused on teaching the skills needed for those who play and work in the wilderness... I look forward to reading Mr. Davenport's newest book -- Wilderness Living -- which does focus on wilderness living skills.
Rating: 5
Summary: Useful and informative
Comment: I've read many wilderness outdoors and survival books for different country (mountain, forest, desert), and Wilderness Survival is one of my all-time favorites, along with Mountaineering The Freedom of the Hills by Don Graydon and The Ultimate Desert Handbook by Mark Johnson (both of which I also highly recommend).
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Title: US Army Survival Manual: FM 21-76 by Department of Defense ISBN: 0967512395 Publisher: Apple Pie Publishers, LLC Pub. Date: 01 January, 1992 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Wilderness Living by Gregory J. Davenport ISBN: 0811729931 Publisher: Stackpole Books Pub. Date: September, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Sas Survival Handbook: How to Survive in the Wild, in Any Climate, on Land or at Sea by John Wiseman ISBN: 0006531407 Publisher: Harpercollins Pub Ltd Pub. Date: August, 1999 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: Primitive Wilderness Living & Survival Skills: Naked into the Wilderness by John McPherson, Geri McPherson, John ISBN: 0967877776 Publisher: John McPherson Pub. Date: 01 January, 1993 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Identifying and Harvesting Edible and Medicinal Plants by Steve Brill ISBN: 0688114253 Publisher: Quill Pub. Date: 20 May, 1994 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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