Camping & Wilderness Survival: The Ultimate Outdoors Book

by Paul Tawrell

“The Ultimate Outdoors Book” with 31 chapters of well researched camping and survival techniques.  This guide covers everything from fire making to first aid, building shelters, winter travel and much more.

 

“ Camping & Wilderness Survival actually lives up to the hype of its subtitle. The Ultimate Outdoors Book is the fullest and finest work in the field since Horace Kephart’s timeless Camping and Woodcraft was published almost a century ago. ...I have read voraciously on camping and the outdoors all my life and possess a personal library of several thousand volumes in this field. Tawrell’s Camping & Wilderness Survival is, quite simply, one of the finest works of its sort I have ever encountered.”

- Jim Casada: Special to the News & Record, Greensboro, NC

Genres: Survival, Reference, Outdoors, Nature, Nonfiction, How To, Travel

1080 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2001

Reviews

[Stephen · Rating 5 out of 5]

Well illustrated and written survival guide. This book was a real fun book to go through and I'll be using it as a resource for years to come.

[Lili · Rating 5 out of 5]

The title claims that this is the ultimate outdoors book, and you know, it is pretty accurate. This book has everything...and I mean everything, if you ever wanted to know how to build a traditional Inuit cold weather shelter, how to be on the lookout for avalanches, how to choose proper foot gear, how to make a bookbag out of a pair of pants, how to avoid a volcanic eruption...really, this massive book has everything. I occasionally find myself just opening to a random page and reading for a while, but for the most part it is more of an encyclopedic style book. I certainly recommend it for anyone who has an interest in nature survival, or just nature in general.

[Frances Davidson · Rating 5 out of 5]

The most informative, enthralling compilation of camping and survival tips and hints, from the "list of lists" to edible and poisonous plants and animals, this book has it all! It includes quality AND quantity. Rather than 1 way to start a fire without matches, this book includes pages of different approaches to the matter. I recommend it to anyone, on a recent winter camping trip even, I used a diagram of a snow-cave as a model for mine, it worked wonderfully! A very useful book!

[Doyle · Rating 3 out of 5]

I probably should have read a more current edition as this one seemed dated with some material. However, still a relevant read for those interested in wilderness survival (all terrains). Nothing earth shattering for the serious student/ practitioner of survival such as wilderness survival instructors.

[Ann Ervin · Rating 5 out of 5]

ok this is the second adition and they don't show the first one.
The first one is the one I have read.
If you like the outdoors this is the collection to get. My daughter uses are book for reference when out in the wild.

[Frank · Rating 4 out of 5]

1080 busy and slightly hard to read pages. However, this book is a must have for outdoor enthusiasts, it has a lot of very informative camping and survival tips. I would use this book for sporadic reading and as a book of reference, like encyclopedias.

[Mel · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really CAN survive in the woods with nuthin but duct tape and a swiss army knife!

[Melissa · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent camping/survival reference book!

[D M · Rating 5 out of 5]

cool info

[S P · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great source for ideas about bushcraft, with some unusual methods and techniques.

[Andrea Thorpe · Rating 3 out of 5]

Great resource! However, the layout of the information on the pages makes it very "busy" and hard to read.

[Rachel · Rating 5 out of 5]

If things turn out like "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy, this is the only thing you need to survive.

[Don Gubler · Rating 3 out of 5]

Encyclopedic. It is best to reference rather than to read.

[Jeffrey · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good info with lots of helpful illustrations.