Water and Fire Survival Handbook: Your Guide to Providing Safe Drinking Water and Starting a Campfire with Various Methods

Water and Fire Survival Handbook

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Water and Fire Survival Handbook: Your Guide to Providing Safe Drinking Water and Starting a Campfire with Various Methods

Water and Fire Survival Handbook

$19.99
Sale price  $19.99 Regular price 
Unit price $19.99 each
A practical, empowering guide to mastering water and fire--the two essential survival skills in the outdoors

New York Times bestselling author and survival expert Timothy MacWelch delivers an authoritative, field-tested guide to securing safe drinking water and building reliable fire in almost any environment. Drawing on decades of experience, MacWelch shows readers how to locate and collect water, disinfect unsafe sources, prevent contamination, and store water when every drop counts. Because fire and water are inseparable in survival, this essential handbook also covers both modern and primitive fire-starting methods--from matches, lighters, and ferro rods to friction fires, flint and steel, and solar ignition--along with fuel selection, fire maintenance, and fire safety.

Readers will learn:
  • How to locate water on any landscape
  • Effective ways to collect precipitation
  • Traditional and modern water disinfection techniques
  • How to find the necessary fuels to start fires
  • The best ways to use modern fire ignition methods, like ferrocerium rods and lighters
  • Primitive fire starting methods like the bow drill, flint and steel, and the bamboo fire saw
  • How to maintain a fire once it's established and how to make sure it's out when you are done

Water and Fire Survival Handbook equips readers not just with techniques, but with the mindset to adapt, problem-solve, and stay alive when conditions turn hostile.

Details

ISBN
9781510788435
Binding
Paperback
Authors
Timothy Macwelch
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Published Date
September 8, 2026
Language
English
Pages
152
Physical Info
0.31 lb

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