Bushcraft Skills (And how to survive in the wild)
By Anthonio Akkermans
A complete handbook to wilderness survival all the knowledge you need to master ancient skills and techniques for preserving life in extreme conditions,
illustrated with over 600 colour photographs
How to find food and water and how to make shelter and fire
Over 650 colour photographs and illustrations
| Publication Date | July 2007 |
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| Price | £8.99 |
| Number of Pages | 125 |
| Size(mm) | 297 x 228mm |
| ISBN | 978-1-84476-270-5 |
| Binding | Softback |
- The ultimate practical manual for coping with crisis and danger in the wilderness and mastering the art of mental and physical survival
- Detailed visual instruction, with over 600 full-colour photographs, illustrations and step-by-step sequences on an amazing array of survival situation scenarios
- Learn the essential skills for survival outdoors, from building desert shelters and arctic igloos to navigation and rescue strategies
- Expert, easy-to-follow step-by-step advice on key life-preserving skills and techniques such as making fire, wilderness navigation, sourcing water, flintnapping, tracking animals, hunting for food and much more
- Professional tuition from one who have been in these situations, followed the strategies, toughed it out mentally and physically, and survived to show you how
- “… as you read this book, don’t just let the words flow over you. Instead, visualize yourself in the situation and how you personally would respond. Live the survival situation now in the safety of your own home just in case you ever have to face it for real.” Debra Veal MBE, solo atlantic rower
The book begins by exploring the mental and emotional side of survival before going on to discuss in turn the four fundamental physical survival requirements of shelter, water, fire and food. In clear step-by-step photographs all the critical skills and awareness techniques are taught from fire-making and first aid to shelter selection and skinning a trapped animal and from sourcing drinking water to signalling for help.
Traditional wilderness skills are fully explained and illustrated: tracking animals, constructing a shelter, making hunting tools and natural cordage, flintnapping, recognizing and sourcing wild plant foods, essential pottery and basketry, primitive and modern trapping and fishing techniques plus practical wild food cooking.
With over 600 colour step-by-step photographs and artworks this book is the definitive visual manual to surviving the wilderness and will appeal to the general traveller and the more experienced expeditioner and adventurer alike.
About the Author
Anthonio Akkermans Anthonio Akkermans first started learning these skills when he met the man who was to become his mentor, Ofer Israeli. Ofer guided Anthonio‘s initial interest as a child in Native American culture and skills to truly caring for nature and all its resources. He taught Anthonio to live on the earth as well as how to teach these valuable skills to others. Under the tutelage of Ofer, Anthonio first started passing on these skills in the form of a fortnightly youth group he set up at the Rudolf Steiner school in Maastricht (The Netherlands) that met once every two weeks. When Anthonio moved to London, he continued continued building on these skills as well as attending many courses with Tom Brown Jr’s Tracker school in New Jersey, USA. During his time in London, Anthonio also developed a special interest in flint knapping and bow-making. In 2001, he moved to Northern Ireland, where he started a school called Wild-Live. Through Wild-Live, he now teaches hundreds of people a year how to live naturally and in harmony with nature and how to connect on a very basic level to the wilderness surrounding them. He also works regularly for Queens University and various museums, instructing in experimental archaeology and replicating artifacts.
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