Complete Guide to Camping and Wilderness Survival ─ Backpacking - Equipment and Survival Tools - Ropes and Knots - Boating - Animal Tracking - Fire Building - Navigation - Pathfinding - Shelter Buildi

The ultimate do-it-yourself guide for campingand wilderness survival.

From the author of the award-winning Complete Outdoors Encyclopedia, this volume is the most complete camping instruction book published. This monumental full-color guide to the outdoors features more than 600 photographs, diagrams, and illustrations, clearly explaining and illustrating the most successful techniques for any camping or backcountry survival scenario. Sure to be an indispensable resource, it offers in-depth coverage of tents, bedding and sleeping bags, boots and footwear, leave-no-trace methodology, camp and backpacking stoves, camp kitchens, menus and cooking, tools, backpacks, ropes and knots, and boats, recreational vehicles, and allterrain vehicles.

Hiking and camping in the backcountry is fully covered, along with wilderness survival skills. Emergency and wilderness first aid, navigation and pathfinding, shelter building, wilderness search and rescue, finding sustenance through foraging edible plants, survival hunting and fishing, setting snares, and nutrition, preparation, and cooking of game are all explored in detail. This book is a must-have reference guide for both novice and experienced campers.

Vin T. Sparano is the author of Complete Outdoors Encyclopedia.He has been an outdoor editor and writer for more than fifty years. He is editor emeritus ofOutdoor Life, and has written and edited more than fifteen books about the outdoors. In 2013, he was inducted into the Freshwater Fishing Hall of Fame.