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Last edited by Wesley Chadwick Truitt
October 25, 2023 | History

Practical Survival Skills Library

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Some books the contain some very practical information, knowledge, skills, tips, etc. that could prove to be very useful in survival situations. E.g., various methods of hunting and/or trapping common game animals found in North America, how to build emergency shelters, how to start and build fires, fishing techniques, appropriate clothing required for various climates, navigating in the back-country, woodcraft, planting and growing food crops, identification of edible native plants, escape and evasion, self-defense, locating and procuring of potable drinking water, canoe-building, long-term sheltering-in-place, improvised weapons manufacture, etc. The various literature in this list all contain some extremely useful details on at least one or many topics pertaining to survival that are still relevant in this day and age.

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  • Cover of: The hunter and the trapper in North America
    First published in 1875 2 editions — 2 previewable Cover of edition huntertrapperinn1875rv work

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  • Cover of: Camp and trail

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  • Cover of: The forest

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  • Cover of: How to hunt and trap: together with chapters upon outfits, guns, etc.; abounding in information generally for sportsmen.

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  • Cover of: Pioneer life: or, Thirty years a hunter. Being scenes and adventures in the life of Philip Tome.

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  • Cover of: The wild turkey and its hunting

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  • Cover of: Canadian Wilds: Tells About the Hudson’s Bay Company, Northern Indians and Their Modes of Hunting, Trapping, Etc.

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  • Cover of: Woodcraft
    First published in 1891 5 editions — 3 previewable Cover of edition woodcraft00sear_0 Cover of edition woodcraft01sear work

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  • Cover of: The three trappers: a story of adventure in the wilds of Canada.

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  • Cover of: The Young Woodsman
    First published in 2005 2 editions work

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  • Cover of: Life in the red brigade ; and, Fort Desolation

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  • Cover of: Woodcraft
    First published in 1919 1 edition work

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  • Cover of: Science of Trapping: describes the fur bearing animals, their nature, habits and distribution, with practical methods for their capture.

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  • Cover of: Twenty-seven years in Canada West: or, The experience of an early settler

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  • Cover of: The still-hunter

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  • Cover of: The book of camping and woodcraft: a guidebook for those who travel in the wilderness

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  • Cover of: Buzzacott's masterpiece
    First published in 1913 1 edition — 1 previewable work

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  • Cover of: The camper's own book
    First published in 1912 1 edition — 1 previewable work

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  • Cover of: Camping and woodcraft: a handbook for vacation campers and for travelers in the wilderness

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  • Cover of: The complete hunter's and sportman's manual and trapper's guide

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  • Cover of: The complete American and Canadian sportsman's encyclopedia of valuable instruction

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  • Cover of: Survive!
    First published in 2009 8 editions — 2 previewable Cover of edition surviveessential00stro_615 work

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  • Cover of: The book of camp-lore and woodcraft.

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  • Cover of: At home in the wilderness: what to do there and how to do it.

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  • Cover of: Camp kits and camp life
    First published in 1906 3 editions — 3 previewable Cover of edition campkitscamplife00hankuoft Cover of edition campkitsandcamp00hankgoog work

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  • Cover of: The way of the woods
    First published in 1908 1 edition — 1 previewable work

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  • Cover of: Camp fires in the wilderness
    First published in 1902 1 edition — 1 previewable work

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  • Cover of: Deadfalls and snares
    First published in 1907 2 editions — 1 previewable work

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  • Cover of: The frontiersman's pocket-book

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  • Cover of: Trail craft
    First published in 1922 2 editions — 2 previewable Cover of edition trailcraftanaid00fordgoog work

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  • Cover of: Tom Brown's Field Guide to Wilderness Survival

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  • Cover of: Tom Brown's Field Guide to Wilderness Survival (Survival School Handbooks / Tom Brown, Jr)

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  • Cover of: Traditional Skills of the Mountain Men: An Illustrated Guide to Wilderness Living and Survival

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  • Cover of: The Tracker

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  • Cover of: Tracks and Trailcraft

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  • Cover of: Foxfire 6: shoemaking, gourd banjos, and songbows, one hundred toys and games, wooden locks, a water powered sawmill, and other affairs of just plain living

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  • Cover of: The Foxfire book

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  • Cover of: Tom Brown's Field guide to nature observation and tracking

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History

October 25, 2023 Edited by Wesley Chadwick Truitt Updated list.
October 24, 2023 Edited by Wesley Chadwick Truitt Updated list.
October 24, 2023 Edited by Wesley Chadwick Truitt Updated list.
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April 23, 2013 Created by Wesley Chadwick Truitt Created new list.