Wilderness Survival Skills: How to Survive in the Wild with Just a Blade and Your Wits

Wilderness Survival Skills is an outdoor survival guide that utilizes the most popular and versatile tool carried by every hiker, camper and hunter: the knife.

It provides you with the essential information and life-saving techniques for all survival situations, including hunting, fishing, and trapping, building a shelter, making a fire, self-defense, and carving useful tools. 

Each chapter presents the knife skillsand activities essential for wilderness survival, including: using a knife and axe, carrying and caring for a knife, securing food with a knife, sharpening an axe, and constructing watercraft wtih a knife.

Bob Holtzman is an editor and writer from Rockport, Maine. He has over 15 years of experience in publishing, for both adults and children, including five years as acquisitions editor at International Marine and Ragged Mountain Press (part of McGraw-Hill), where he specialized in books on hiking, camping, boating, and boat maintenance.