U.S. ARMY SURVIVAL MANUAL FM21-76

No one knows survival better than the U.S. Army, so this exceptional field guide is the most authoritative of its kind. Originally commissioned by the Department of the Army to train its special forces in all-climate, all-terrain survival tactics, this is meant to serve as "a civilian's best guide for toughing it .. anyplace in the world." This is a must for campers, hikers, explorers, pilots, and others whose vocation or avocations require familiarity with the wilderness or out-of-doors, this excellent manual describes and clearly illustrates the techniques of survival medicine, tool making, food and water procurement, shelter building, direction finding, signaling, and many others that could mean the difference between life and death in remote areas. (This is an out-of-print book and available in limited quantity)

Describes and clearly illustrates a vast array of topics, including...
* The Will to Survive * Survival Planning * Survival Medicine * Weapons and Tools * Water Procurement * Wild Plants for Food * Wildlife for Food * Shelter * Firebuilding * Water Crossings * Direction Finding * Signaling * Desert Survival * Tropical Survival * Arctic and Subarctic Survival * Sea Survival * Poisonous Snakes * Knots * Climate * Weather

Teaches you how to...
Overcome the desire for comfort
Recognize the onset of a dangerous passive outlook
Tolerate pain
Use the word "survival" as a pnemonic device
Plan ahead for survival
Administer the Heimlich Hug
Treat insect and snake bites
Make wooden and stone knives
Make a rabbit stick
Start a fire with a bow and drill
Procure water in nearly any environment
Construct a solar water still
Make polluted water potable
Conduct the Universal Plant Edibility Test
Improvise containers for boiling food
Catch and eat insects
Make fishhooks and fishing line
Build a stakeout for fishing secretly
Make spear points
Capture amphibians and reptile
Catch birds in a net
Make an Ojibwa bird snare
Make a squirrel pole
Make a trip-string deadfall trap
Clean a snake
Skin and butcher small and large game
Build a parachute tepee
Construct a swamp bed
Build a shelter in the desert sand
Make a Dakota fire hole
Cross a swift stream
Make an Australian poncho raft
Find direction using the sun and stars
Signal to aircraft with your body

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(Price increased May 28, 2002)
(This is an out-of-print book and available in limited quantity)

Other similar and helpful books:
The Sense of Survival by Allan South
The Wright's Complete Survival Manual by Ted Wright
The Outdoor Survival Handbook by Raymond Mears
Practical Outdoor Survival by Len McDougall
Survival Guide for the New Millennium by Byron Kirkwood
FOR KIDS: Willy Whitefeather's Outdoor Survival Handbook for Kids

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Original date: September 29, 1997
Last updated: July 31, 2002
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