
Backpacker The Survival Hacker's Handbook
How to Survive with Just About Anything
Ted Alvarez(Author)
Falcon Guides (Publisher)
Will be published approx. on 1. December 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
264 pages
978-1-4930-3056-9 (ISBN)
Description
Hack your way out of any situation. Backpacker The Survival Hacker's Handbook provides detailed instruction on how to use everyday items to survive in extraordinary circumstances. Learn how to make a fishhook out of a beer can, start a fire with hand sanitizer, build a shelter out of bin bag, and much more. This comprehensive guide will teach you how to identify real solutions for real scenarios - with real items you carry with you. The book includes useful tips and tricks from survival experts, and provides step-by-step instructions for key skills, along with short stories of survival situations where these modern survival skills have come into play. The book is organised around basic fundamental concepts of survival: finding food, building shelter, securing water, etc.
Reviews / Votes
This bright-orange book really does highlight all the dangers nature can throw our way when we're backpacking through all sorts of environments, in all sorts of weather. You might think it is irrelevant to shooting, but you would be wrong. Let's take stalking - it brings just as many dangers as backpacking, perhaps even more. It's really worth knowing how to build a shelter when you find yourself stuck and unable to return to the safety of civilisation. Definitely a book worth having if you're an adventurous person. -- BASC * Shooting and Conservation Magazine *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Rowman & Littlefield
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
200 Halftones, color; 29 Illustrations, color
Dimensions
Height: 231 mm
Width: 191 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
680 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4930-3056-9 (9781493030569)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions

Backpacker Magazine | Ted Alvarez
Backpacker The Survival Hacker's Handbook
How to Survive with Just About Anything
E-Book
04/2018
Falcon Press Publishing
€23.73
Available for download
Person
Ted Alvarez is Backpacker magazine's Northwest Editor and was a National Magazine Award finalist in 2014. He spent a year as the columnist for Backpacker's Survival Lab column. He's the author of Backpacker's The National Parks Coast to Coast (Falcon, April 2016).
Content
Introduction
Chapter 1 - Shelter
Chapter 2 - Fire
Chapter 3 - Water
Chapter 4 - Food
Chapter 5 - Navigation
Chapter 6 - First Aid
Chapter 7 - Threats
Chapter 8 - Mind Games
Chapter 9 - Fitness
About the Author
Chapter 1 - Shelter
Chapter 2 - Fire
Chapter 3 - Water
Chapter 4 - Food
Chapter 5 - Navigation
Chapter 6 - First Aid
Chapter 7 - Threats
Chapter 8 - Mind Games
Chapter 9 - Fitness
About the Author