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Basic Safe Travel and Boreal Survival Handbook - by Mors Kochanski

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​-453 Pages, 317 Illustrations, 22 Charts 
-Size 5.5 x 8.5 x 1  1/8 Inches


This book was compiled for outdoor educators and the Junior Forest Warden movement mostly from articles originally published in Wilderness Arts and Recreation Magazine that had become out of print but much sought after. Some of the articles were the basis for his book, Bushcraft. A small fraction of the book will seem familiar but the rest makes an excellent complement to his Bushcraft book, while this one is mostly on survival.
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What to expect about this book?

Mors Kochanski's "Boreal Survival" is by no means a mere survival book for those only living near the Canadian Boreal Forrest. If you enjoyed his book "Bushcraft" this is part 2 to that book. In this book he goes into great detail helping you have a strong foundation and platform to grow while revisiting some points he talked about in the first book. For example in his book "Bushcraft" in Chapter 1 Firecraft there Mors gives you the reader a layout of different fires you can make, and where to position yourself when using them, as well as what fire arrangement to use for what need. Here in "Boreal Survival" fire ecology and dives into the issues of fire making in far more depth from the composition of wood, to learning what sources are good for use of kindling, to moisture issues, and even fire physiology among other points he makes.

He also spends a lot of time talking about the psychology of wilderness survival and the effects it may have on ones mental and physical state among other points of necessity.  This book was specifically designed to compliment his first book "Bushcraft" and to truly shed some important light on the many points of wilderness survival. In the section about Wild Edibles he helps layout for you ways to document, and notate the many plants you will over time encounter while listing some and their uses, to help with positive identification as well as personal documentation. When I think of the time he spent compiling this information together this book alone is sincerely a go to book for learning in depth bushcraft skills you can take from reading to actually doing yourself. ​

--Avi Ben Shalom

The book is divided into six parts:

Table of Content

1) Wilderness Survival Skills
-Site Development
Shelter
Latrines
Garbage Disposal
Food Storage: Bearproofing
Outdoor Classroom

-Equipment
Clothing and Shelter
The Sleeping Bag
The Functional Bush Knife and Its Use
The Five Most Important Try Stick Notches
The Multipurpose Bush Axe
The Saw

-Wilderness Fire Lighting Skills In The Spruce Moose Forrest
Approach to the Use of Fire
The Question of Impact
Some Different Types of Fire Users
Abuses of Fire
Where Campfires are Out of Place
Justifying the Use of a Campfire
Points of Basic Fire Ecology

-Basic Map and Compass Use
The Map
The Compass

-The Basic Survival Lean-To and Bed
Open Fronted Lean-To Principles
Open Fronted Lean-To Made of Flexible Materials
Bough Beds

-Outdoor Cooking
Introduction
The Australian Cooking Crane
Steam Pit

-Wild Edibles
Plants
Looking at Edible Mushrooms

2) Wilderness Survival
-Defining Survival
Basic Existence Skills
Wilderness Survival
In Survival You Have No Guarantees
Living Off the Land
The Advantages of Fasting (on water only)
Problems with Fasting

-Introduction to Wilderness Survival
Preparedness
Panic
Survival in a Nutshell
Fire
Shelter
Dehydration
Hypothermia
Signals
Conservation of Mental and Physical Energy
Lost? Finding Your Way

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-Water and Human Survival
Body Water Needs
How Much Water?
Thirst
Local Thirst
Boiled Water Recommended
Undetected Water Losses
Water Loss Through Lungs in the Cold
The Mechanism of Water Absorption
Dehydration

-Handling Stress
Responding to Stress
Your Only Three Options
Limiting Factor

-Survival Skills
Survival Kit: The Basics
The Personal Kit
The Basic (Two Kilogram) Universal Kit
The Personal First Aid Kit

-Caching Supplies and Equipment

-Signaling with a Mirror

-Signal Fires

The Choice of Site
The Simple Signal Fire
The Standard Signal Fire
The Large Signal Fire

-Vehicle Survival
Vehicle Operation Kit-circa 1985
Vehicle Survival Kit

-Aircraft Survival

-Helicopter Safety

3) Wilderness First Aid
-Cold Injuries

Introduction
Hypothermia
Cold Hazards: Frostnip and Frostbite
Dehydration
Snow Blindness

-Diarrhea
Introduction
Water Loss
Burns, Scalds, and Fluid Loss

-Knife Cuts: How to Avoid Them

4) Wilderness Travel Skills
-Leading Your Group
Travel Hints

-River Crossing
Crossing on Foot
Rope Crossing

-Effects of Traveling at Higher Elevations
Conditions Resulting in High Altitude Pulmonary Edema
Conditions Above Tree Line

5) Wilderness Environment
-Annoying Insects
-Bears are Dangerous
-Lightning
-Breaking Through the Ice
-Quicksand or Mud


6) Ropework
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