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1 author picked The Essential Skills of Wilderness Survival as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This is the book you want on your shelf if you plan to escape to the woods when SHTF (sh** hits the fan).
You can learn easy shelters to build, various friction-fire methods, cooking methods for campfire meals, and how to fashion just about any basic tool or useful item from wild materials, including weapons. You’ll also get acquainted with basic wilderness medicine and what the real threats are when you’re living outside full time.
But the true key to making this book useful is to really do and make the stuff. You can read all you want about the…
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