A richly illustrated wilderness survival and safety guide for beginners!

This comprehensive guide combines survival know-how and wilderness savvy, with over 850 easy-to-understand, color illustrations and detailed notes. It walks you through all the basic steps and key points:

• How-to Basics: How to build a fire, create a hammock and tarp shelter, build a life raft and even a tree house!

• Safe Water Collection: Filtration, sterilization, distilling seawater and tips for collecting rain and dew

• Cooking Outdoors: Make a simple stove, a portable solar cooker or a spit-roast barbecue

• Safety First: Learn life-saving CPR and first aid for cuts, sprains, fractures, bites and stings

• Need a Knot? Learn to tie an array of square, sailor's, sheep bend, tegrette, bowline, double, spiral, Prussian and reef knots

• And Much More: Tools and emergency supplies, map reading, knife skills and what to do inthe event of an emergency or natural disaster

These basic techniques help you survive in the wild and be prepared for everyday challenges and extreme situations. The Ultimate Wilderness Survival Guide enables you to always be fully prepared…for fun!

About the Author

Rimpei Kazama became a writer after working as a manga editor at a major book-publishing company.

He's an expert on survival skills acquired as a Boy Scout leader and outdoor enthusiast in Japan and abroad.

His books include Survival Techniques Now and New Adventure Handbook.

He currently writes feature articles on science and technology are being serialized in children's periodicals throughout Japan.