Survival in the Wilderness [antikvár]

IntroductionThis book is written for everyone who, for recreation or in the course of employment, ventures into the woods of Canada and of the more northern of the United States.Woodland travellers setting out for the day and expecting to be snug at home again by nightfall inevitably take the chance, whether consciously or not, that they might fail to be out of the woods before dark and, with no more than they wear and carry, might have to spend the night outdoors.Depending on what such people do in fact wear and carry and on what use they contrive to make of material at hand in the woods, this mere fact of an unexpected night outdoors can have vastly differing results: at the one extreme, a pleasant and comfortable time with sound sleep and rest, at the other extreme, a miserable death.People who go out for the day wish to go lightly and they do go lightly. The deer hunter, the forester out for a day's cruising, the young couple for an afternoon's stroll, the cross-country skier these people are not going to cany a tent and a sleeping bag. The party taking off in the morning in a small aircraft from the local strip and expecting to land at a destination before day's end where food and shelter are available will not burden the aircraft with the