US Army: Survival Guide

Army Survival is the U.S. Army Field Manual 21-76, titled “Survival.”
The U.S. Army knows how to train their personnel to survive. Their field manual is the most authoritative guide on survival. This book provides a complete reference guide on basic survival, evasion, first aid and recovery information. If you are an outdoor enthusiast, this book may be essential to your survival.
Army Survival includes information on:

Psychology of survival
Basic survival medicine
Shelters
Water procurement
Edible and medicinal plants
Poisonous plants
Dangerous animals, snakes, lizards, fish, insects and arachnids
Field weapons, tools and equipment
Desert survival
Tropical survival
Cold weather survival
Sea survival
Direction finding
Signaling techniques
Predicting weather
Ropes and Knots

As a lover of the outdoors you may be anywhere in the world. It may be a temperate, tropical, arctic, or sub arctic region. You expect to have all your personal equipment and or other members of your group with you wherever you go. There is, however, no guarantee that’s how your adventure will go. You could find yourself alone in a remote area— with little or no personal gear. This book provides information and describes basic techniques to enable you to survive and return alive should you find yourself in such a situation.