<b>The ultimate do-it-yourself guide for campingand wilderness survival.<br></b><br>From the author of the award-winning <i>Complete</i>&nbsp;<i>Outdoors Encyclopedia</i>, this volume is the most&nbsp;complete camping instruction book published. This&nbsp;monumental full-color guide to the outdoors features&nbsp;more than 600 photographs, diagrams, and illustrations,&nbsp;clearly explaining and illustrating the most&nbsp;successful techniques for any camping or backcountry&nbsp;survival scenario. Sure to be an indispensable&nbsp;resource, it offers in-depth coverage of tents, bedding&nbsp;and sleeping bags, boots and footwear, leave-no-trace&nbsp;methodology, camp and backpacking stoves, camp&nbsp;kitchens, menus and cooking, tools, backpacks, ropes&nbsp;and knots, and boats, recreational vehicles, and allterrain&nbsp;vehicles.<br><br>Hiking and camping in the backcountry is fully&nbsp;covered, along with wilderness survival skills. Emergency&nbsp;and wilderness first aid, navigation and&nbsp;pathfinding, shelter building, wilderness search and&nbsp;rescue, finding sustenance through foraging edible&nbsp;plants, survival hunting and fishing, setting snares,&nbsp;and nutrition, preparation, and cooking of game are&nbsp;all explored in detail.&nbsp;This book is a must-have reference guide for both&nbsp;novice and experienced campers.