DK Living: Outdoor Survival Guide (Paperback)

A practical guide to mastering outdoor skills and staying alive in challenging environments, the Outdoor Survival Guide enables everyone - expert and novice alike - to answer the call of the wild with confidence. Packed with more than 950 full-colour illustrations, including many step-by-step sequences, the Outdoor Survival Guide offers an unparalleled understanding of the outdoors. It demonstrates hundreds of specific techniques for staying warm and dry, obtaining food and water, travelling, and getting help, including making a lean-to shelter, testing plants for poison, making a compass, splinting a broken arm and surviving in a blizzard.
Representing outstanding value for money, this stylish and contemporary series has been specially created for everyone with a busy lifestyle. Highly practical and inspiring, the DK Living series embraces every aspect of a wide range of popular topics, from gardening and cookery to beauty and sports. Each title covers both basic and more advanced information, including a clear explanation of the subject, equipment, and preparation. Detailed, step-by-step photographs and instructions take the readersystematically through all the techniques. The highly visual approach, combined with clear, uncluttered presentation, make each title exceptionally easy to follow.

• Get back to basics - learn from an expert
• Includes all the skills necessary for living off the land - even in the most adverse conditions.
• Features hundreds of specific techniques for staying warm and dry, obtaining food and water, travelling, and getting help.
• All the techniques are explained in systematic, easy-to-follow stages.
• Quick comprehension is aided by exceptionally detailed instructions and clear, step-by-step photography.