This is a great book for all who want to be prepared for any emergency but don't already have the life skills for that. While "no single book" can tell us all we need to know about survivalism, foraging, and the wild, this book is a good one to start with, probably the best of the four books I've read so far on this subject.
My husband continues to be unmotivated to think like a "survivalist' with a basement full of canned goods and bins of rice, pasta, and flour. Turn this book into a documentary he can watch while on the treadmill, and I might get him to get with the program.
Eating insects, grubs, and bugs is the part he might never agree to unless he gets really, really hungry. Me, I've been extolling the benefits of #entomophagy for years. Who wants to eat cute furry mammals with eyes that gaze into ours? Or chickens? I grew up on a farm, so it should be a no-brainer for me. In fact I'm not yet a vegetarian, but that's mostly because I'm allergic to gluten, dairy, eggs, and more, which severely limits what I can eat. But to eat pigs (they're so intelligent!) or cows (every Holstein in every dairy herd I've seen has her own distinct personality) or lambs! How can we do that, but then wince and cringe at the thought of eating an "ugly" insect? I'd much rather cook up grubs and bugs into a meatloaf or casserole, or fried in a skillet, or pulverized into cricket flour (yes, I've eaten cricket bars).
--Wait! Come back! There's more than bugs on the menu here!
This book is the best I've seen for showing how to discern if a plant in the woods is safe to eat. No, I'm not going to share excerpts here. But I will add the warning about bugs: the brightest, most distinctive and colorful tend to be the most dangerous.
How to start a fire, how to COOK over a fire if you have to create your own pans and utensils - this is stuff we all need to know, just in case. If we go to our graves without ever having had to put this knowledge into practice, well, how lucky can be? (Or how uneventful our lives have been.)
"Patterns in Nature" is a great chapter. "Nature loves patterns. Being able to identify these patterns is a skill at which the human brain is incredibly adept. All living things can be grouped and classified...."
Finding water, and filtering it and boiling it to make it drinkable: that's a chapter you shouldn't miss.
And that's not even HALF the book. Next, First Aid principles, and survival kit isntructions. How to diagnose soft tissue injuries and how to treat fractures, sprains, broken bones, bites, stings, burns, open and bleeding wounds, hypothermia, heat exhaustion, and more. Herbal Remedies. Nature's Larder: Wild Foods Survival Guide.
Again, no one book will equip you for life in the forest or desert, but this one is an excellent start.
Thank you to NetGalley for an Advance Review Copy of this book.
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