Survival Handbook Raymond Mears.pdf

SURVIVAL

HANDBOOK

BY RAYMOND MEARS

THE

ISBN 1 85648 180 8

First Published 1990 By

The Oxford Illustrated Press,

This Edition Published 1994 By

The Promotional Reprint Company

Ltd, Exclusively For Bookmart Ltd,

Desford Road, Enderby, Leicester,

LE9 5AD

Printed and bound in China

reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any

means, electronic or mechanical, including

photocopying, recording or by any information

storage retrieval system, without the permission

of the publisher.

Contents

Introduction

Possibles

Shelter and Protection

Fire

Water

Plants

Hunting

Tracking

Trapping and Fishing

Cooking, Preserving and Storing Food

Cordage, Basketry, Pottery and Glue

Stone and Bone Working

Hideworking

Hitting The Trail

This book is dedicated to the memory of

Kingsley Royce Hopkins my guide and mentor

for nearly sixteen years, who passed away

during the production of the manuscript. His

will be a tough act to follow.

Acknowledgements

I would like to thank all those people who have encouraged

and supported me during the writing of this book, and the

fellow outdoors enthusiasts with whom I have shared camp-

fire and trail. In particular, I would like to mention the

following in no specific order: my patient and long-suffering

parents, Nick Crane the instigator, Philip Wells and Sally

Collings, James and Brenda Locke, Roger Hopkins for some

twentieth-century wizardry, Vivien Drake, Roy Belanger,

Charles 'Badger' Taylor, Richard Kluckhohn, Scott Kuipers,

Mike Clinchy, Robert Craigie, Kurt Folsom, Richard and

Ruth Bennett and the seventh Purley Scout Group.

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