• Monday, May 30th, 2011
Ultimate Guide to Wilderness Living: Surviving with Nothing But Your Bare Hands and What You Find in the Woods
- ISBN13: 9781569756508
- Condition: New
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EVERYTHING THERE IS TO KNOW ABOUT SURVIVING IN THE WILD
During my first years of learning survival I took a course in survival and primitive earth skills taught by John and Geri McPherson. I was excited by their unbelievable passion and the
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Same book, different title,
This is a great book. The information is top notch. All the skills are presented in easy to follow, step-by-step instructions. I don’t really have a problem with the photos either. I do think it’s important that people know that this isn’t a new book from the McPhersons, it is “Naked into the Wilderness” Primitive Wilderness Living & Survival Skills. The only new thing in this book is the title. All the information is the same, they’ve just changed the order of the chapters. Hopefully this information will save others from spending their hard earned cash on this book (plus international shipping) only to find that they already have the same book with a different cover sitting on the shelf.
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|Un-Ultimate Guide to Wilderness Living,
Let me make this perfectly clear. The skills in this book are top notch and tried and true by the authors as well as by the history of mankind. My problem with this book is that the authors and the publisher should have taken more pride in putting this publication out. The McPhersons have already published the content of this book from multiple sources. I could have forgiven them for basically rebinding past content from these other books if they had updated the photos. If you go and read coments from their past works people complained even then about these very pictures that they are/were sub par. New photos absolutely should have been taken. If you do not already own books by the authors, then I do recomend this book, but don’t believe for an instant that the OLD photos will help much in discerning details from these photos as part of your absorption in learning or practicing these skills.
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|Tired rehash of earlier books,
I looked forward to seeing the “New Book” from these authors and was sorely disappointed when it arrived. Time would have been well spent by the authors and the publisher to take an editing ax to this book. The core information is good, but it seems as if the authors kept a journal of their experiments and after doing them once or twice for the first book, did not try again thus the lack of any new observations, improved illustrations/photos or any other noticeable change. The cutesy backwoods rambling with all it’s poor grammar, was fun for the first book, tolerable for the second and downright irritating for this tired rehash of their earlier books. To be picked up by a publisher and then squander that opportunity is a real pity and a ripoff to those who already have the same material under the original title.
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