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Wilderness Evasion: A Guide To Hiding Out and Eluding Pursuit in Remote Areas |  | Author: Michael Chesbro
Publisher: Paladin Press
Category: Book
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Rating:  21 reviews
Sales Rank: 28858
Media: Paperback
Pages: 168
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Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.5
ISBN: 1581603657
Dewey Decimal Number: 613.69
EAN: 9781581603651
ASIN: 1581603657
Publication Date: November 2002
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Do you need to get away from the pressures of the world and the gaze of Big Brother for a while? Do you plan to live or work in a remote area where you need to be able to take care of yourself? Do you want to develop the skills to remain undiscovered in the back country - even if others are searching for you? If so, Wilderness Evasion is for you. You don't have to be on the run to benefit from this unique survival book: it includes skills you can use every day in your real life. Whether you're heading into the woods for evasion purposes or just a little relaxation, you should know what this manual can teach you about survival medicine, emergency caching, communications, food and water procurement and storage, counter anti-tracking, and the psychological aspects of being alone in the back country, among other things. The ability to remain alive, self-reliant and in control of your environment - even in the remotest of areas - is one that few people possess these days. Learning the skills taught in this book can keep you alive for as long as you need to be in the wilderness. For academic study only.
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 Wilderness Evasion is a good primer for other survival books you'll need. July 30, 2009
Woods Woman (Jackson, Mississippi United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I found the book a light read for someone who enjoys the outdoors and the survivalist lifestyle as much as I do. The topics from attitude to navigation by the stars to survival medicine to discreet methods in staying in contact with those assisting you will encourage someone with the survivalist attitude to research better informed books about the topics he mentions. For someone new at wanting to escape and evade from The Man, The Mob, or ex-spouses, you read a book like this for the pointers and some general information to research later. A successful survivalist needs detailed and illustrated books on plant identification for the area they plan to stay in for a while, how to get water from every source available (rain, tree sap, or distilling in a 2 liter pop bottle, etc), how to avoid waterborne and foodborne parasites, and camouflaging your entire body (scent included). It's a very good primer for a novice survivalist and would make a nice present for anyone who plans to join the military one day and then finds himself cut off from his unit.
Just the basics January 23, 2009
Gray Ranger (USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book covers a lot of subject areas in only about 150 pages. Consequently while it provides a good overview of topics for evasion and short-term wilderness living, it fails to give sufficient information to be very useful to anyone who does not already have the skills. Four and a half pages for Navigation, four for making a shelter - truly just the basics.
You may also be disappointed in the amount of text devoted, strictly speaking, to evasion. The bulk covers basics of medicine, food, shelter, etc. that are the stock of any wilderness survival book.
Not much new here, unfortunately January 7, 2009
Kevin Casey (Brisbane, Australia)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
Perhaps my expectations of this book were too high, but as a survival book author and experienced wilderness explorer myself I found it mostly disappointing. Aside from the communication section, I found most chapters to display an ample talent for generalization and/or stating the obvious. There is some useful stuff in here though(such as the method for mailing a letter and making it seem that it originated in a totally different city - simple and effective).
The sections on navigation, food, shelter, etc. are just re-hashes of the same old stuff that every survival book author since Lofty Wiseman has been spewing and re-spewing over many decades. The old " telling direction using your watch and the sun" (inaccurate most of the time as a reliable method), and the old "creating a makeshift compass from magnetised silk (which nobody ever carrries in a pack), a blade of grass and a piece of thread is here too (and is even less reliable than the watch trick).
I would have preferred a more detailed variety of long-term shelter options than what was provided - such as scout pits, etc. The author has only skimmed the surface of this potentially fascinating subject, and the result is a lightweight effort. The best things about this book are the low price, and the title, which sucks you in to buying it...
Just another map and compass book December 20, 2008
K. Miller (Arlington, VA USA)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
If you've read a handful of other US Military manuals you'll recognize this book as being heavily influenced and derived from the same sources. It's not really any new information or presentation techniques. It's not a bad book, it's just nothing special.
Even for a non-survivalist quite interesting December 6, 2008
Brunello (Honolulu)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I'm not a wilderness or survivalist enthusiast; I'm doing research for a novel that I'm working on. So I can't vouch for the expertise of the writer. But the information is clear, reasonably well written and interesting. Even for the lay reader there is valuable info.
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