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e-Book - Basic Safe Travel and Boreal Survival Handbook-Gems from Wilderness Arts and Recreation Magazine
This manual covers Clothing-Sleeping Bag-Axe-Saw-Knife-Fire-Shelter-Bush Bed-The Most Edible Boreal Plants and Mushrooms-Cooking-Signal Fires-Current Survival Knowledge-Survival Kits for Pedestrian, Vehicle and Aircraft-Map and Compass-River Crossings-High Altitude Travel-Insects-Bear Safety-Lightning-Quicksand-and finally Basic Ropework.
Karamat $13.99
$11.99
e-Book - Bush Arts
Produce a variety of practical and attractive items using only natural and easily found materials such as sedge, spruce and willow, a few simple tools, and traditional folk and Native craft techniques.
Step by step directions for creating bird decoys, willow whistles, wreaths, wooden propellers, gold dust containers and a variety of other functional and appealing items.
First published in 1989.
Karamat $3.00
$1.99
e-Book - Basic Wilderness Survival in Deep Snow
This training booklet involving shelters that incorporate snow, the safe use and construction of the Roycraft snowshoe, the concise coverage of dressing for the cold which supplements "Basic Wilderness Survival in Cold Lacking Snow".
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e-Book - Basic Wilderness Survival in Cold Lacking Snow
This is a concise training booklet that would require at least a three day course to cover the skills involved. It is the most important booklet of the series and the information in the other booklets is supplementary to it. Fire and shelter skills, the signal fire and the other pertinent distress signals are covered.
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e-Book - Tools of Survival and Survival Training
This booklet supplements the 2 kg. kit and Survival Kit Ideas booklet to provide one with an overview about what a person needs to consider to take care of oneself and what to focus on in survival training. This requires a good careful read to supplement "Basic Wilderness in Cold Lacking Snow","Basic Wilderness Survival in Deep Snow" and the" 2 Kilogram Survival Kit Field Manual".
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e-Book - The Two Kilogram Survival Kit Field Manual
This booklet is a training manual that is also useful to include in a survival kit as a reference. To learn to construct the survival kit component super shelter, the ski shoes, bucksaw and packframe require two days of training, three for slow learners.
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e-Book - Survival Kit Ideas
This booklet is a training manual that is also useful to include in a survival kit as a reference. To learn to construct the survival kit component super shelter, the ski shoes, bucksaw and packframe require two days of training, three for slow learners.
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$1.99
e-Book - Knife Sharpening
This is a training booklet that applies to all walks of life, including the sharpness of the knife one chooses to use in survival. The time taken to master knife sharpening is highly variable. Once you know what to do the fast learner takes about 4 accumulated hours to put a shaving edge on his or her knife the first time, after which it takes moments to re-establish your edge.
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e-Book - Top Seven Knots and the Use of the Windlass
1. Jam, 2. Constrictor, 3. Non-inverting Slippery Bowline, 4. Slippery Sheet Bend, 5. Slippery Figure of 8, 6. Prusik, 7. Reef. As knots are found in families, there are a few bonus knots included. Favour the ones you find most useful. The jam knot made with 550-200-7 paracord is one of the most useful knots in creation, let along survival. To properly master all the knots and their application in this booklet requires about two or more days.
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e-Book - The Compass
This booklet is the companion volume to Map Use. It is the minimal knowledge anyone stepping into the wilderness should have about compass use. This is not an orienteering manual.
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e-Book - Map Use
With a topographic map in front of you and the basic information in this booklet to augment it you may get more out of using the map.
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$1.99
e-Book - 21 Native Wild Edible Plants
The few wild plants listed here are likely the only ones that are about as close as domestic plants can be in digestability. Of the 1800 flowering plants in Alberta, about 800 are mentioned as being used as food. I suspect some wild edible plants may require weeks to really acclimatize to them.
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$1.99
e-Book - The Inuit Snow House
Note the avoidence of the word Igloo when you mean to say INI. This training booklet provides enough concise information to teach oneself the principals of snow dome construction from proper snow drifts. To make suitable artificial snow blocks refer to page 185 of Bushcraft. To learn now to construct the inuit snow house and a quinzee requires about 2 days.
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e-Book - Basic Netting
This training booklet covers basic netting as practiced by the Grand Banks fishermen. This booklet was brought out as it is not easy to locate information on netting techniques. The knowledge or direction for constructing functional fishing nets is left for another booklet. There is directions for construction a hammock. The time to learn how to net as discribed in the booklet is about four hours. To build a hammock requires more than a day.
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e-Book - When You Meet a Black Bear
This booklet is a rock bottom sysnopsis on what one needs to know about the black bear if you plan to spend time in their environment. The best advice is to acquire an extensive natural history of the creatures you fear, such as cougars, grizzlies and wolverines. That is, read all the books you can find on the subject until one day you have just read another book on handling any encounters and you have learned nothering new. You will then hopefully have acquire the knowledge you need to choose the best reaction to the situation at hand. Does it sound like a lot of bother? Well, it is your skin.
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e-Book - Basic Weather Knowledge
This booklet is meant to help you determin today's weather in the morning and tomorrow's weather in the evening as what may occur within your immediate horizons, so that you may act accordingly to improve your chances of survival.
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e-Book - Wilderness Steam Bath
This booklet deals with a means of achieving physical cleanliness in a way not possible through showering or bathing. The health benefits, the social aspects and the usefulness in acclimatizing to the cold makes the Steam Bath an important adjunct to wilderness living, but not necessary to weekend camping. some feel that Steam bathing imposes excessive enviornmental importance. Everyone is likely to agree that this activity should not be carried out in parks.
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e-Book - The Northern Night Sky
This booklet is a nature guide that provides a concise approach to help identify about 40 constellations in a relatively short time. Some of the knowledge may be useful in navigation, otherwise knowing something about the stars can provide considerable enjoyment for the rest of your life.
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e-Book - The Cattail Doll
This nature-handicraft booklet provides the basic details and directions for crafting dolls from the commonly available cattail plant. To do true justice to this topic one needs a fairly large book. This should be considered an indispensible booklet especially working with children. This is a traditional folk craft and handicraft derived from the Ojibway native culture.
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e-Books - 17 Pocket Booklet Package
This includes all 17 Titles listed above.