Australian Bush Survival Skills

Australian Bush Survival Skills (172 pages) is the most comprehensive survival manual ever produced for Australian conditions. It outlines proven techniques for dealing with outdoor emergencies and challenging environments, and is an absolute must for all who venture into our wild places - 4WD enthusiasts, bushwalkers, kayakers, boat owners and anyone who works or travels in the bush. It contains hundreds of field-tested survival methods that have saved countless lives, and could save yours.

Survival topics include:

Water procurement

Food gathering

Fire-making

Improvised shelters

Bush medicine

Survival kits

Rescue preparation

Signalling

Remote-area first aid

4WD vehicle safety

Protection from the elements

Survival at sea

Direction finding

Survival equipment

Clothing

Handling difficult terrain

Survival on isolated coasts

Hazardous creatures

Survival physiology

Reading the weather

Natural disasters

Survival fishing methods

Outback communications

This is the new, updated eBook version of a classic Australian survival reference, originally published in print form in 2000.

This digital version has been revised and updated where applicable (for example, more people use sat phones than HF radios in the outback now) but is essentially the same book as the old print edition (now out of print - this eBook is the only version currently available). It been revamped and re-published as a much more affordable eBook.