The Skills of Wilderness Survival - U.S. Army Official Handbook
A Military Field Guide to Shelter, Fire, Water, Navigation, Signaling, and ResilienceBy U.S. Department of the Army
Length10h 7m
About this audiobook
The Skills of Wilderness Survival—U.S. Army Official Handbook presents wilderness survival as a disciplined practice of observation, preparation, and sound decision-making. Its practical treatment encompasses essential concerns such as assessing hazards, finding or purifying water, securing food, constructing shelter, making fire, navigating unfamiliar terrain, signaling for help, and providing basic first aid. Written in a direct, procedural style, the handbook belongs to the tradition of military field manuals: concise, systematic, and designed to translate knowledge into action under difficult conditions. Its literary value lies less in ornament than in clarity, sequence, and the confident presentation of tested methods. The U.S. Department of the Army produced this work within the institutional culture of military readiness, where self-reliance, endurance, and adaptability can determine operational success. Its authorship reflects collective expertise rather than an individual literary voice, drawing on the Army's training doctrine and its need to prepare personnel for environments in which equipment, communication, and conventional support may be unavailable. The book therefore also documents a broader twentieth- and twenty-first-century effort to formalize practical environmental knowledge for instruction and emergency use. This handbook is recommended to hikers, campers, emergency planners, instructors, and readers interested in applied outdoor knowledge. It is especially valuable for its organized, unemotional approach: rather than romanticizing wilderness, it teaches readers to evaluate risk, conserve resources, and act methodically. Used alongside current local guidance and hands-on training, it remains a substantial reference for developing confidence and competence in the outdoors.
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Length10 hrs 7 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 14, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1U.S. Army Survival Handbook
26Still Construction
2Chapter 1. Introduction
27Water Purification
3Survival Actions
28Water Filtration Devices
4Pattern for Survival
29Chapter 7. Firecraft
5Chapter 2. Psychology of Survival
30Basic Fire Principles
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6A Look at Stress
31Site Selection and Preparation
7Natural Reactions
32Fire Material Selection
8Preparing Yourself
33How to Build a Fire
9Chapter 3. Survival Planning and Survival Kits
34How to Light a Fire
10Importance of Planning
35Chapter 8. Food Procurement
11Survival Kits
36Animals for Food
12Chapter 4. Basic Survival Medicine
37Traps and Snares
13Requirements for Maintenance of Health
38Killing Devices
14Medical Emergencies
39Fishing Devices
15Lifesaving Steps
40Preparation of Fish and Game for Cooking and Storage
16Bone and Joint Injury
41Chapter 9. Survival Use of Plants
17Bites and Stings
42Edibility of Plants
18Wounds
43Plants for Medicine
19Environmental Injuries
44Chapter 10. Poisonous Plants
20Herbal Medicines
45How Plants Poison
21Chapter 5. Shelters
46All About Plants
22Shelter Site Selection
47Rules for Avoiding Poisonous Plants
23Types of Shelters
48Contact Dermatitis
24Chapter 6. Water Procurement
49Ingestion Poisoning
25Water Sources
50Chapter 11. Dangerous Animals
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