A Field Guide to Primitive Living  Skills  

By Thomas Elpel

Discover the world of Nature by using it. Learn to meet your needs for shelter, fire, water and food. It includes dozens of innovative skills and nearly 200 illustrations, both photos and drawings. Full color cover with 152 pages.

• Stay warm without a blanket and start fires by friction.

• Collect and prepare wild foods. Includes identification of plants with excellent drawings..

• Fish by hand.

• Make containers, bags, baskets and cordage, make your own brain-tanned buckskin and work with sinew and hide glue.

• Make felt and items like sandals from old tires

$20. per copy

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