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| Primitive Wilderness Living & Survival Skills: Naked into the Wilderness | 
 enlarge | Authors: John Mcpherson, Geri Mcpherson
Publisher: John Mcpherson
Category: Book
List Price: $24.95
Buy New: $23.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  40 reviews
Sales Rank: 18485
Media: Paperback
Pages: 408
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.8
ISBN: 0967877776
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.5
EAN: 9780967877778
ASIN: 0967877776
Publication Date: January 1, 1993
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Condition: Volume 1 - New from the Publisher! APO/FPO Orders Welcome. Order from a VETERAN-OWNED Bookseller. All Orders shipped with Delivery Confirmation. Please E-mail us directly with any questions.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Great book !! January 8, 2008
What a great book..super informative, lots of pictures and instructions..If I wanted one book to take into the wilderness this would be it..I can't say enough good stuff about it..Easy too read and learn from..
Honest portrayal of survival skills October 21, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
The authors of this book take great care to write about what they know. The level of effort and the trials of learning the skill are discussed in every case. Most novices think that after reading a particular survival skill, such as the fire bow, they can do it. These authors make you understand how hard it is to implement the theories, and in other cases, how simple things really are.
A good read for anyone who is interested in crafting useful and intelligent resources from nature.
A mix of wildnerness survival and primitive living worth reading.
Tons of photographs, few hand drawings (only when essential) and the passion for wilderness skills is obvious and contagious!
Great Book October 14, 2007
This Book is very usefull and I have learned a lot about how to survive the things in this book are great to learn and have helped me with many wilderness survival skills,I Highly recommend.
 Primitive Wilderness Living and Survival Skills October 11, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The book is a compilation first published in 1993 from a series of 10 booklets the author published from 1986 to 1992. It is very idiosyncratic in writing style, bordering at times on the semi-literate or at least the pretense of it. According to the author, at the time of writing there was not much published on primitive living skills. The mountain man reenactors would have been one group eager for information, and this may account for the writing style as much as anything, although clearly no critical editor was involved in the final composition of the text.
McPherson began merely with the intention of a writing a book on brain tanning buckskin, and over the years worked to expand his publications into a series on primitive living skills, finally publishing them together in a single volume. The book covers brain tan buckskin, the bow drill and hand drill, cordage, the bow and arrow, traps, the spear throwing atlatl, meat preservation, cooking, butchering a deer, baskets and other containers, clay pots, tools from stone and other natural materials, and shelters. There is no information on edible plants.
There is an abundance of photos (over 700 according to the blurb on the back), and McPherson is an avid practitioner of the skills he teaches; but the long term value of the book varies among the chapters. At times he relies on the photos to instruct us, rather than taking the time to articulate what it is he knows. Some times this is good enough, at other times it's not. If he would not have had a ready audience for each of the chapter length booklets he published, he just may have put in the effort to write a better book.
The best there is! August 23, 2007
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book is so well written, covering so many primitive skills, that a student could spend years just working off this book alone. In my opinion, this is the best out there.
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