Why am I passionate about this?
I am a survival expert and outdoor professional with over ten years of experience in outdoor recreation and survival. Recently, I became the winner of Season 9 of the survival TV series Alone after surviving for 78 days with just ten items in the unforgiving wilderness of Labrador. I have lived for six months in the boreal forest with my fiancée, foraging to complement our meager rations, and I have also spent one hundred days foraging in solitude during the Canadian winter. Currently I’m building an off-grid homestead that I hope one day will turn into an off-grid community.
Juan's book list on survival for staying alive in the wild
Why did Juan love this book?
I highly recommend this book because it lays the basic foundation for wilderness survival.
The book is written in a funny, straightforward style, and it’s perfect for beginners. Its unconventional approach focuses on the core necessities, rather than covering many topics and skills that are often irrelevant in short-term survival situations.
This book serves as a stepping stone into the world of wilderness survival and points the reader into an approach to survival that is realistic and grounded.
In the area of wilderness survival there are many uncertainties and different approaches, making the subject a bit ambiguous, but I feel this book provides a clear and well-founded view of the essential survival principles.
1 author picked 98.6 Degrees as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.
Cody Lundin, director of the Aboriginal Living Skills School in Prescott, Arizona, shares his own brand of wilderness wisdom in this highly anticipated new book on commonsense, modern survival skills for the backcountry, the backyard, or the highway. This is the ultimate book on how to stay alive-based on the principle of keeping the body's core temperature at a lively 98.6 degrees.
In his entertaining and informative style, Cody stresses that a human can live without food for weeks and without water for about three days or so. But if the body's core temperature dips much below or above the…
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