Wilderness Survival

by Gregory J. Davenport

A comprehensive, well-organized, and user-friendly guide to staying alive in the backcountry. With concise explanations and detailed illustrations, survival expert Gregory Davenport covers the five basic elements of survival--personal protection, signaling, finding food and water, travel, and health--providing the reader with complete information on how to stay calm and alive until rescue arrives.

Genres: Survival, Nonfiction, Reference, Self Help, Adventure, Nature

306 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 1, 1998

Reviews

[Edward Hendry · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great 'How to' book on survival in the wilderness. From gathering food to making shelter and finding direction, many of the skills and techniques presented by Davenport are the same our ancestors used on a daily basis when things weren't so civilized.

[Simon Gianoutsos · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book provides lots of useful information on survival in the wild and consideration of items to take with you. There is quite a bit of repetition but this does lend itself to somebody not needing the book cover to cover, but looking up sections as required. I skipped over some sections that I didn't care about at the moment but all-in-all found it to be a useful guide.

[Ethan Hulbert · Rating 4 out of 5]

I thought this book was pretty good. Felt like it didn't explain some things quite enough for a beginner, while other things it spent way too much time on, and sometimes the writing was not great, or seemed disorganized and clunky.

Still, overall 3.5 stars rounded up to 4 for Goodreads. A valuable book that's a little too big for my go-bag but still gets a spot in my broader shelter kit.

[Daniel · Rating 5 out of 5]

good information. Easily accessible. Worth getting.

[David · Rating 4 out of 5]

Survival book

Contains a lot of vital information for survival, great for beginners and novice hikers. A good read to help refresh your skills.

[John Cyrus · Rating 3 out of 5]

Practica, brief guide to survival. Good information on building shelters and finding food and water.

[Nick Eager · Rating 4 out of 5]

Complete guide. Covers all aspects at good depth needed for survival. Themed as if lost in the wilderness.

[Mark Gowan · Rating 4 out of 5]

I live in the Rocky Mountain region of the United States and spend a great deal of time in the mountains hiking and mountain biking. In the past few years I've started doing quite a bit of rock climbing (typically class 3 and 4). I say this because it is these activities that motivated me to get a survival handbook. Davenport's book is a great primer on some basic skills ranging from trap setting, shelter and personal safety (he divides the necessary skills into health, personal protection and sustenance). While the book is not complete, I believe that such activities are best learned with a combination of theory and actual experience, a belief that seems to underly Davenport's book as well.
The book is well written with the exception of the directions regarding building traps and travel/negation. both of which are somewhat confusing when being read. However, the basic important points are there. I would recommend this book to those who are actually going to go out into the wilderness and try their hand at survival. Although Davenport's book puts emphasis on being found when lost and being safe while lost, I think that there are better books out there for emergency situations in otherwise "normal" circumstances.

[Sundeep Supertramp · Rating 3 out of 5]

Actually it is worth the buy. It has everything from how to protect you from the natural elements and different climatic conditions, how to construct a shelter, how to make a fire with or without fire starters, how to signal for help, how to construct snares, etc... It is a good survival guide for a noob. It has got a Universal edibility test.

Bad Points :
The most bad thing is that, it has no colour illustrations are in the book. It is very annoying with the black and white images. All the images of snares shelters, etc has no colour images. They are drawn images.
I first disadvantage I noticed about the book is that. In every book i search for edible plants setion. In this book, there is one chapter for edible plants. But it has got only two plants which are edible but the images are hand drawn. I was expecting colour images of the lots of plants. So this is one point which disappointed me.

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[Robert Lewter · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was a very informative read. It was also an easy read that keeps your interest. I learned some very handy new techniques. I rate this book right up there with Bradford Angier's, "How To Stay Alive in the Woods".

[Melissa Mclees · Rating 4 out of 5]

Awesome book. Good advice on what to do to get ready to go out to the wilderness and also great advice on how to survive in the wilderness to. Everyone that plans on going out to the wilderness needs to take a copy of this book with them.

[Deb Sturgess · Rating 4 out of 5]

I skimmed through this as research. Information is presented clearly and the book is well-organized. I hope I never have to survive in the wilderness -- as some of my characters do.

[Sammy Duncan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good history of a truly unique combat force.