The Skills of Wilderness Survival - U.S. Army Manual
Fieldcraft for Shelter, Water, Fire, Navigation, First Aid, and Survival in Hostile TerrainBy U.S. Department of the Army
Length10h 8m
About this audiobook
The Skills of Wilderness Survival presents survival not as romantic adventure but as a disciplined system of observation, judgment, and resource management. Organized in the practical, directive style characteristic of military field manuals, it addresses core problems of wilderness living: assessing hazards, finding or purifying water, locating and preparing food, constructing shelters, making fire, navigating, signaling, and responding to injury or changing weather. Its literary context is the twentieth-century tradition of instructional survival writing, yet its emphasis falls on procedure, improvisation, and psychological steadiness rather than anecdote or personal heroism. The result is a compact technical text whose clarity and utility derive from the Army's commitment to standardized training and operational readiness. Issued by the U.S. Department of the Army, the book reflects an institutional knowledge developed through field exercises, military operations, and the necessity of sustaining personnel beyond established bases and communications. Its authorship is therefore collective and procedural rather than autobiographical: the manual distills tested practices into teachable principles for soldiers who may confront isolation, deprivation, injury, or environmental extremes. That origin explains its unemotional tone, careful sequencing, and insistence that survival depends as much on mental discipline as on physical skill. This manual will reward soldiers, hikers, instructors, emergency planners, and general readers seeking dependable foundations in wilderness competence. It is especially valuable for readers who prefer practical instruction over sensationalism, offering a durable framework for making sound decisions when modern conveniences fail. Read attentively, it becomes both a field reference and a concise study in disciplined adaptation.
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Length10 hrs 8 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 13, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1A Woman's Hardy Garden (Annotated)
26Water Sources
2The Skills of Wilderness Survival - U.S. Army Official Handbook
27Still Construction
3Chapter 1. Introduction
28Water Purification
4Survival Actions
29Water Filtration Devices
5Pattern for Survival
30Chapter 7. Firecraft
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6Chapter 2. Psychology of Survival
31Basic Fire Principles
7A Look at Stress
32Site Selection and Preparation
8Natural Reactions
33Fire Material Selection
9Preparing Yourself
34How to Build a Fire
10Chapter 3. Survival Planning and Survival Kits
35How to Light a Fire
11Importance of Planning
36Chapter 8. Food Procurement
12Survival Kits
37Animals for Food
13Chapter 4. Basic Survival Medicine
38Traps and Snares
14Requirements for Maintenance of Health
39Killing Devices
15Medical Emergencies
40Fishing Devices
16Lifesaving Steps
41Preparation of Fish and Game for Cooking and Storage
17Bone and Joint Injury
42Chapter 9. Survival Use of Plants
18Bites and Stings
43Edibility of Plants
19Wounds
44Plants for Medicine
20Environmental Injuries
45Chapter 10. Poisonous Plants
21Herbal Medicines
46How Plants Poison
22Chapter 5. Shelters
47All About Plants
23Shelter Site Selection
48Rules for Avoiding Poisonous Plants
24Types of Shelters
49Contact Dermatitis
25Chapter 6. Water Procurement
50Ingestion Poisoning
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