Wilderness Survival Handbook: Primitive Skills for Short-Term Survival and Long-Term Comfort (INTERNATIONAL MARINE-RMP) - Softcover

Mike Pewtherer has been practicing and teaching wilderness living and survival skills for over 18 years. He is the coauthor of Wilderness Survival (2006) and the founder of Woodland Ways, a company teaching wilderness survival, rites of passage, and living skills to youth and adults. He has taught in venues ranging from private high schools to conferences. Mike also teaches blacksmithing, tracking, woodwork, and ceramics. Mike has traveled widely and studied with native tribes in North America, Fiji, and Australia, and has acquired and practiced survival skills in military settings as a combat engineer, in Australias Outback, and with various wilderness instructors across North America. He has also worked with the National Parks Service on the Wilderness Rescue Squad in numerous back-country settings, assisted on black bear studies, and worked as a hunter of feral hogs in the Great Smoky Mountain National Park. Hometown: Philmont, NY