Out on the Land
Bushcraft Skills from the Northern Forest
1st Edition
Published on 8. September 2016
336 pages
978-1-4729-2499-5 (ISBN)
Description
'Fifty years into my life journey I realise that, while I love remote wild places and the peoples I meet there, it is in forests that I find the greatest joy. Of all the forests that I have explored, it is the great circumpolar Boreal forest of the North that calls to me most. Here is a landscape where bush knowledge really counts and where experience counts even more ... This book has been thirty years in the making.'
Out on the Land is an absorbing exploration of, and tribute to, the circumpolar Boreal forest of the North: its landscape, its people, their cultures and skills, the wilderness that embodies it, and its immense beauty. The book is vast in scope and covers every aspect of being in the wilderness in both winter and summer (clothing, kit, skills, cooking, survival), revealing the age-old traditions and techniques, and how to carry them out yourself. It also includes case studies of early explorers, as well as modern-day adventurers who found themselves stranded in the forest and forced to work out a way to survive.
So much more than a bushcraft manual, this book goes deeper, to the traditions and cultures that gave us these skills, as well as focusing on the detail itself. Ray and Lars's practical advice is wound around a deep love for the forest, respect and admiration for the people who live there and sheer enjoyment of the stunning scenery.
Out on the Land is an absorbing exploration of, and tribute to, the circumpolar Boreal forest of the North: its landscape, its people, their cultures and skills, the wilderness that embodies it, and its immense beauty. The book is vast in scope and covers every aspect of being in the wilderness in both winter and summer (clothing, kit, skills, cooking, survival), revealing the age-old traditions and techniques, and how to carry them out yourself. It also includes case studies of early explorers, as well as modern-day adventurers who found themselves stranded in the forest and forced to work out a way to survive.
So much more than a bushcraft manual, this book goes deeper, to the traditions and cultures that gave us these skills, as well as focusing on the detail itself. Ray and Lars's practical advice is wound around a deep love for the forest, respect and admiration for the people who live there and sheer enjoyment of the stunning scenery.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Illustrations
Colour photographs throughout
ISBN-13
978-1-4729-2499-5 (9781472924995)
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Persons
Ray Mears is recognised throughout the world as an authority on the subjects of bushcraft and survival. He has also become a household name through his TV series', including Tracks, World of Survival and The Real Heroes of Telemark. Lars Fält is the founder of the Swedish Army Survival School, lectures on survival worldwide, and has written 10 books on wilderness living skills.
Through their work in their respective countries Ray and Lars are both acknowledged authorities of bushcraft and survival skills, and for more than twenty years have worked together teaching survival in Arctic Lapland some 200km north of the Arctic Circle.
raymears.com / @ray_mears
Through their work in their respective countries Ray and Lars are both acknowledged authorities of bushcraft and survival skills, and for more than twenty years have worked together teaching survival in Arctic Lapland some 200km north of the Arctic Circle.
raymears.com / @ray_mears
Content
- Cover
- Half-title
- Copyright
- Title
- Dedication
- Contents
- Picture Credits and Acknowledgements
- The Authors
- Introduction
- The Boreal World
- Life in the forest
- Outfit and Clothing
- Getting organised
- Shouldering responsibility
- What to pack?
- Cold Injury
- Safety in the cold environment
- How we lose heat
- Liquid fuel at low temperatures
- Alcohol at low temperatures
- How we are affected by the cold
- Acclimatisation to cold
- Teamwork and organisation
- Hygiene
- Injury in the cold environment
- Basic Forest Skills
- How to pitch a tarp
- How to use a knife
- How to use an axe
- How to use a saw
- How to suspend a cooking pot
- How to tie knots
- How to make a withe
- How to make a spoon
- How to dry clothing
- Navigation
- How to be a good navigator
- Bearings
- Other measurements and navigational techniques
- Fire
- Tinder
- Kindling
- Sources of ignition
- How to light a fire
- How to extinguish a fire
- The nying fire
- The 3-log fire
- The star fire
- The Raappanan fire
- Summer Travel
- Preparing the mind, body and spirit
- Practical considerations
- Winter Travel
- Special tools for winter
- Moving on snow
- Ice
- How to live in a tent in the winter
- Food in the Wild
- Utensils and the wanigan
- The importance of salt
- Fishing
- How to prepare fish
- Willow grouse
- Drying meat
- Beverages
- Breads
- Dessert
- Foraging
- Survival
- Survival mentality
- Living from the land
- Signalling
- Your 'Guardian Angel'
- Communication equipment
- Shelter
- Water
- Survival fire-lighting
- Survival food
- Long-range Bushcraft
- Communication
- Pocket first-aid kit
- Crooked knife
- Repair kit
- Bucksaw
- Axe repair
- Repair
- The forest as our friend
- Index
