Anyone Can Live Off The Land Author:James Ralph Johnson This is a practical book about how to survive in the wilderness, written by a major on active duty with the US Marines, formerly a field executive for the Boy Scouts of America. It covers such essentials as finding edible foods at all seasons of the year, building fires in the rain and without matches, fishing without tackle, utilizing roots an... more »d herbs as first aid equipment There are alos valuable chapters on how not to get lost, how to concoct palatable dishes from foods the wilderness provides. It begins with an exciting account of escape and evasive maneuvers the author participated in with the RAF in England when, in his role as a hunted enemy, he could have saved himself from capture if eh had carried with him a wad of charred cotton. And throughout the book he points out other tricks of survival: how to use a magic elder leaf to neutralize poison ivy; how to treat the bite of America's only poisonous mammal; and where to find fish poisons as effective as those used by tropical natives. Knowledge of such woodlore can be of value to anyone caught up in a natural disaster or standed in the wilderness because of an accident. The book's cheif purpose, is to point out to campers the fun of learning to use the woods as a treasure house of good things. An eminently readable as well as practical book, even an armchair woodsman will find pleasure and profit in it.« less