wilderness survival

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wilderness survival

Wilderness survival

1998
Draws on military training to present text and illustrations on the five basic survival elements: personal protection, signaling, sustenance, travel, and health.

To build a fire

1991
A tenderfoot attempts to hike through the Yukon snows with his dog in order to reach a mining claim.

Mistaken journey

1979
A rancher, his family, and two companions journey through 300 miles of rough, unsettled country to the land the family will homestead in Canada only to realize they have been trekking in the wrong direction.

Found alive

1979
On a cold night in autumn while on his first hunting trip, a 14-year-old boy becomes lost in the northern Michigan woods.

Frozen terror

1979
A man is stranded on an ice floe in Lake Michigan while ice fishing and endures perilous adventures attempting to get back to shore.

The boy's book of outdoor survival

101 courageous skills for exploring the dangerous wild
2008
Provides 101 survival tips, such as how to erect an A-frame shelter, craft a bow and arrow, make a fishing rod, and escape a bear attack, and includes illustrations.

The Transall saga

1999
While backpacking in the desert, thirteen-year-old Mark falls into a tube of blue light and is transported into a more primitive world, where he must use his knowledge and skills to survive.

Swiss family Robinson

2002
A Swiss family on their way to New Guinea is shipwrecked on a tropical island where they must deal with issues of survival.

A Cry in the Wild

(Hatchet)
1990
A young man survives a plan crash in a remote Canadian lake and must learn to make his home in the wilderness.

Hatchet

2006
After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the wilderness, learning to survive initially with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce.

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