Wilderness Living

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Summary: Modern urban life caused us to forget
Review: Davenport will give you practical information for a goal you probably ought to be dreaming to achieve. Buy it.

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Summary: Modern urban life caused us to forget
Review: Davenport will give you practical information for a goal you probably ought to be dreaming to achieve. Buy it.

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Summary: Highly recommended
Review: Greg Davenport has been there and done it. A former U.S. Air Force SERE instructor, Davenport has practiced what he preaches. If you're looking for a book that tells you how to survive and flourish in the wilderness, read this one. Though not the most hyped, Davenport is one of the best survival instructors out there. This is the "Simple and Direct" version of living in the wilderness.

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Summary: Highly recommended
Review: Greg Davenport has been there and done it. A former U.S. Air Force SERE instructor, Davenport has practiced what he preaches. If you're looking for a book that tells you how to survive and flourish in the wilderness, read this one. Though not the most hyped, Davenport is one of the best survival instructors out there. This is the "Simple and Direct" version of living in the wilderness.

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Summary: All you [might] need to know...
Review: Gregory Davenport's book is a masterpiece of clarity and brevity, and it covers all the bases. Use it as a reference book, as opposed to a cover-to-cover read. For instance, it starts off with a chapter on making buckskin. It's just the right level of detail if you're tanning a hide, but too much for the casual reader. Another example is the wonderful chapter on making snares. Davenport lists some nineteen types, all illustrated, and all with a practical application. Davenport's education was clearly of the outdoor variety, at the expense of the indoor variety, resulting in some cumbersome syntax, and excessive passive voice, but perhaps his editor is more to blame for that. Overall, it is a genuine masterpiece, and my copy is already dog-eared with use.

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Summary: Indispensable prefatory reading for any nature enthusiast
Review: Gregory Davenport's Wilderness Living is a fascinating and informative guide that looks beyond merely surviving in the wilderness and envisions the art of living with nature in the long term. Among the many skills taught in detail are hunting and trapping techniques, meat preservation, improvising clothing, finding water, designing shelter, and making tools and baskets. The black-and-white illustrations clearly depict the braiding, trap-building, knot-tying and many other abilities described. Wilderness Living is indispensable prefatory reading for any nature enthusiast who wants to learn how to live on their own, away from the comforts and conveniences that saturate modern civilization!

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Summary: Outstanding Book
Review: I learned A LOT from his books, they offered a tremendous wealth of information for any wilderness enthusiast. It teaches you how to skin a deer, preserve the meat, build a shelter, start fires, and much more.

However, the book could have added more depth. They only covered certain chapters with a page and barely discussed certain topics.

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Summary: wilderness living and... survival?!
Review: Sure, this book claims to teaches you how to do a a lot of things to survive, except one thing: it doesn't teach you how to string up a log into the trees, so that when someone walks by and unwittingly pulls a trigger, the log comes swinging down and crushes them - like what Arnold Schwarzenegger did to Predator. I haven't yet figured out how a single person can do this, unless you're using a complex lever and pulley system. Anyways, you've really got to fortify some kind of defense if you want to survive, and at least encircle your lair with punji pits.