• Contains techniques for short-term survival in the outdoors
• Small enough to fit easily into a pack
• Useful for anyone who spends time outside

• Trip planning
• Survival kits
• Search and rescue
• Handling bad weather
• Making shelter
• Emergency signaling
• Dealing with insects
• Safe drinking water

J. Wayne Fears is a wildlife biologist by training who has organized big-game hunting camps, guided canoe trips, and run commercial getaway operations. Former editor of Rural Sportsman magazine, he has written more than more than twenty books on a variety of subjects ranging from cabin building (including How to Build Your Dream Cabin in the Woods) to survival (The Pocket Outdoor Survival Guide) to cookbooks (including The Complete Book of Dutch Oven Cooking), and more than four thousand articles for major outdoors magazines. A member of the International Dutch Oven Society and an accomplished writer and skilled outdoorsman, Fears lives in Cross Creek Hallow, Alabama.