Shelter, Fire, Water: A Folding Pocket Guide to Three Key Elements for Survival (Outdoor Recreation and Survival)

I'm a fan of Dave Canterbury's teaching & approach to survival. My first intro to him was on the Discovery Channel, where he paired up with Cody Lundin. At that time, I felt that Dave knew his stuff, but didn't care for his personality on the show. I've come to the conclusion that what I didn't like was Discovery Channel's portrayal of Dave. I believe they made him out to be a super hyped up antithesis of Lundin for the show's ratings & popularity. It worked, but I don't feel was fair to Canterbury. On these waterproof pocket guides, I think they're an excellent source of knowledge & reference. Any survival kit or bugout bag wouldn't be complete without some or all of these guides. To this date, I've purchased two guides; Shelter, Fire & Water, as well as the Building A Survival Kit; both of which I highly recommend. They're filled with important tips that could help you in a situation where you're not thinking clearly. If you cannot remember something, it's easier to refer to a guide that contains relevant information for your situation. Thumbs up to Dave Canterbury & Waterford Press Inc! Paracord Survival Necklace Black

It's waterproof, durable and easy to understand. Hard to beat.

This pamphlet is good for what it is -- a tool to jog your memory if you're in a survival situation. It will not help offer a great deal of help if it's your first exposure to this material. Given how small it is, I don't want to give away too much information to the detriment of the authors, but I think some detail on the contents may be helpful: One panel (out of 12) on the basic concepts of surivial and their priority: shelter, fire, and water. It also goes into maintaining core body temperature and Dave Canerbury's 10 C's (which you've hopefully brought with you when you're using this). Three panels on shelter beginning with clothes. Then it covers how to plan your shelfter, 4 different types of shelter that can be made with that tarp or drum liner you brought with you, and 3 natural methods (eg, debris shelters) if you didn't bring anything. This section also covers conserving your resources while in a survival situation. For comparison, the Bear Grylls Priorities of Survival devotes 3/16 of it's space to this topic and gives 4 examples of natural shelters (pictures only) and one with a tarp. Three and a half panels on fire. First, the three stages of fuel and how to assemble a fire along with some tips. Then how to use those things your brought with you (eg, ferro rod). Then it gets into primitive methods: specifically char cloth and a fire bow. I think this author wasted a lot of space covering the methods you hopefully brought with you. Again, for comparison, the Priorities of Survival devotes 1/8 of it's space to fire and covers three different improvised fire methods (fire bow, fire saw, and using a car battery). Two and a half panels on water. It spends space telling you that you're probably not getting enough water every day, then it gives things to look for to help locate water in nature (eg, terrain, animal tracks). It goes into water collection with that container you brought with you. Then it covers 6 methods for purifying water. By comparison, Bear Grylls' pamphlet spends 1/8 of it's space and focuses on rain/dew traps and solar stills and only lists boiling as purification. The Priorities of Survival expends almost half of it's space on rescue (signalling, navigation) and food (snares and knots). It uses 1/16 of its space on branding. This pamphlet expends 2/12 of it's space on branding (the cover and a pitch for the Pathfinder School that does include a little useful information such as "3 main killers of most lost people"). Setting aside the things this product isn't supposed to cover (like signalling, per the title), it still seems to waste valuable space about things like talking about cigarette lighters. In some places it gives more information than Grylls' pamphlet and in some places less. All in all, it's not a bad little reference to keep in your emergency kit or glove box.

This book is awesome, and I am so grateful that it is waterproof. Love Dave Canterbury. He is a great man & knows everything you need to survive.

A great, super light weight and durable information packet. I'm a light "doomsday prepper" with mainly a bag and minimal resources to get me started, should I ever need to. This was perfect for my bag and I know if I ever need it, it will be in my bag and I'll be able to reference it with little effort. Very simplistic yet detailed and great for beginners like myself.

Good to have for review before a trip or in the field.

Great quality, well made and useful info. Great little item to add to any hiking or camping backpack.

7 bucks is a bit steep for a folded laminated 8.5x11 and there is much un-used or under used area on it. However the information on it is good stuff.

Synthèse utilisable sur le terrain pour enseigner ou se souvenir. Excellents principes par un excellent auteur !

I love the whole Pathfinder Pamphlet series. Waterproof, concise and informative.

In den USA oder Den britischen Inseln oder Skandinavien ist Bushcraft/Survival schon längere Zeit ein Thema. Dieser wasserfeste Begleiter gibt umfassende Hinweise für den Notfall. Erfahrene Backpacker, Bushcrafter etc. werden hier keine neuen Informationen finden. Für Anfänger oder als wasserfester Ratgeber im Notfallgepäck aber bestens geeignet. dave Canterbury ist eine Institution wenn es um das Überleben in der Natur geht. Für Menschen, die sich noch nicht mit Survival/Bushcraft beschäftigt haben, enthält dieser Ratgeber zusammen mit "Building a Survival Kit" (ebenfalls Dave Canterbury) umfassende Informationen für den Notfall.

No BS information

This is just a single folding page format but contains valuable, concise information and is very portable.