(14) Books / Manuals / Reference Material

Basic Tracking is the essential guide to take on your next wilderness adventure. Having knowledge of the surrounding terrain and basic animal behavior, allows trackers to save valuable time by predicting the animal’s movements. Basic Tracking covers not only tracks of animals in the Eastern Woodlands, it also provides instructions how to track them through landscape usage. This compact and waterproof folding guide will highlight the seven types of signs that point to which animals passed by, what they did, where they went, and much more. This will be a great precursor to the Trapping guide. Be smart, be safe, be skilled.

This helpful tool covers the fundamentals of tracking animals found in the Eastern Woodlands, as well as how to follow them through various landscapes. An excellent precursor to the Improvised Trapping guide, this portable handbook also includes the seven types of signs to look for while following woodland creatures.

About the Pathfinder Outdoor Survival Guide® Series:
Co-star of the popular TV show Dual Survival and founder of The Pathfinder School, Dave Canterbury brings his military background and survival skills to our newest line: The Pathfinder Outdoor Survival Guide® series. This series offers 8 titles including Wilderness First Aid, Building a Survival Kit, Improvised Trapping, and more. Do you know how to secure fire, water and shelter, or signal for help using the tools nature provides? Dave does. And this knowledge, presented with the simplicity and clarity could help save your life one day.

Well-known outdoor expert Dave Canterbury offers basic techniques and essential information for primitive wilderness survival in this new heavy-duty pocket guide series from. Perfect for throwing into an overnight pack or brushing up on skills before an expedition, these waterproof, rip-proof guides can be used on their own or in conjunction with one another, similar to the method used in Canterbury’s unprecedented Pathfinder System. Covering everything from what to include in a survival kit and improvised tracking techniques to signaling for rescue and building shelter, this collection is ideal for outdoor adventurers of any skill level and provides indispensable wilderness information for all situations.

Author: James Kavanagh, Dave Canterbury
Illustrations: Raymond Leung

Shelter, Fire, Water: A Waterproof Pocket Guide to Three Key Elements for Survival:While in the wilderness, the three key elements needed for survival—specifically for maintaining core body temperature necessary for life—are shelter, water, and fire. The most effective man-made and natural shelters for protection against the elements are included within, along with how to identify and utilize different fire types and, finally, how to collect and disinfect water sources in order to protect against waterborne viruses and pathogens.

Shelter, fire and water are the three keys to survival and maintaining your “core temperature control” (CTC). This indispensable guide shows how to create and use each of these elements most effectively and economically, while keeping the next stage or steps clearly in focus, a forgotten — yet critical — component of many scenarios.

About the Pathfinder Outdoor Survival Guide® Series:
Co-star of the popular TV show Dual Survival and founder of The Pathfinder School, Dave Canterbury brings his military background and survival skills to our newest line: The Pathfinder Outdoor Survival Guide® series. This series offers 8 titles including Wilderness First Aid, Building a Survival Kit, Improvised Trapping, and more. Do you know how to secure fire, water and shelter, or signal for help using the tools nature provides? Dave does. And this knowledge, presented with the simplicity and clarity could help save your life one day.

Well-known outdoor expert Dave Canterbury offers basic techniques and essential information for primitive wilderness survival in this new heavy-duty pocket guide series. Perfect for throwing into an overnight pack or brushing up on skills before an expedition, these waterproof, rip-proof guides can be used on their own or in conjunction with one another, similar to the method used in Canterbury’s unprecedented Pathfinder System. Covering everything from what to include in a survival kit and improvised tracking techniques to signaling for rescue and building shelter, this collection is ideal for outdoor adventurers of any skill level and provides indispensable wilderness information for all situations.

Author: James Kavanagh, Dave Canterbury
Illustrations: Raymond Leung

Wilderness Survival: How to Stay Alive in the Wilderness, a Duraguide™ field guide. Wilderness Survival is the perfect, pocket-sized folding guide on how to stay alive in the wilderness. The guide highlights basic first aid, building a shelter, signaling for help, foraging for food and water, fire-making, edible plants and navigating through the wilderness. Created and printed in the USA with updated survival techniques. Laminated for durability, this handy guide is a great source of portable information and ideal for field use by novices and experts alike.

About the Duraguide™Series: The Duraguide™ series are a line of practically indestructible folding field guides. Printed on an innovative waterproof, rip-proof paper, these guides are built to last and can take a beating in the bottom of a pack or boat for years to come. Weighing in at just 1 oz., they are the light heavyweights of field guides and pack a considerable punch.

Duraguide™ titles present valuable how-to information in a format that will never let the user down regardless of the conditions or abuse inflicted. Beautifully illustrated and written with the simplicity and clarity we are noted for, these guides will soon be everyone’s choice to take along on outdoor adventures.

Author: James Kavanagh
Illustrations: Raymond Leung

Field Dressing Game; A Waterproof Pocket Guide to What a Novice Needs to know. This handy new Duraguide™ provides a simplified introduction to safe practices and procedures for field dressing various species of game and fish, including rabbits, squirrels, deer and large mammals, ducks/geese, pheasant, turkeys and small game birds. Also references hunting etiquette, safe cooking of wild game and the edibility of reptiles, amphibians, insects and road kill. This practially indestructible guide is the perfect companion to have in your pocket whenever you head out during hunting season.

About the Duraguide™ Series: The Duraguide™ series are a line of practically indestructible folding field guides. Printed on an innovative waterproof, rip-proof paper, these guides are built to last and can take a beating in the bottom of a pack or boat for years to come. Weighing in at just 1 oz., they are the light heavyweights of field guides and pack a considerable punch.

Duraguide™ titles present valuable how-to information in a format that will never let the user down regardless of the conditions or abuse inflicted. Beautifully illustrated and written with the simplicity and clarity we are noted for, these guides will soon be everyone’s choice to take along on outdoor adventures.

Author: James Kavanagh
Illustrations: Raymond Leung