Reddit mentions of Primitive Wilderness Living & Survival Skills: Naked into the Wilderness

Find some friends who also feel like this and start going out every day and practicing this stuff. Here's the best secret I know about wanting to live primitively. You don't need to find a remote plot!

A friend of mine started a primitive skills club at our university and we would officially meet once or twice a week and just do very eyecatching stuff on campus (making cordage, fire by friction, etc). Unofficially, we had a shelter in Fairmount Park (Philadelphia) not far from our apartments. The section of park we chose wasn't especially big, but it didn't matter. No one ever looks off the path. Typically they just trudge forward staring at the ground in the park. We would have camp fires, practice skinning and tanning roadkill, trap small game (cook, eat, and use bones of course), do flint knapping. All of it.

No one ever noticed.

It's also a great way to make yourself feel like a ninja. Anyway, if you REALLY like this stuff and not just the idea of liking this stuff (like many people I know personally) then I really suggest you buy Primitive Wilderness Living & Survival Skills: Naked into the Wilderness . I have read all the major books on wilderness survival, taken the Tom Brown Jr. and Dan Young classes, but I will let you all of them combined are not worth the help of this book and practice alone. Practice, practice, practice is what it takes until you can start a fire with two pieces of wood while it's raining in under 30 seconds.

Also John McPherson, the author of the book, is a really awesome dude. I actually sent him and email and he set up a time so I could call him and we chatted for about 3 hours. Basically I was saying I didn't know what to do after college; I had loans, I didn't want a traditional job, and I didn't know what to do. He somehow convinced me (for the best) that it was better to finish paying off my loans first, however I can, and integrate primitive living into my life as much as possible. Can't live outdoors year round? Then spend the summer months living out of a tent in a park. If you love doing it, you'll keep doing it no matter what.


And also, if anyone wants any primitive living advice, feel free to hit me up. Someone should make a /r/tribe.

Primitive Wilderness Living And Survival Skills because it's the only one that shows you what to do if you end up in the wilderness without a survival kit or even a knife. It also shows you how you can live a permanent wilderness lifestyle if you so choose. Basically how to start from NOTHING and survive, just like native americans did. We are talking how to flintnap rocks to make your own stone knives, etc. How to make twine and wicker baskets so you can carry stuff to begin with. In the second volume they even have a section where they give a chronology of how they survive going into a wilderness area with only their clothes and they don't even use their pockets because that would be cheating!. Ok this sounds a little extreme but you didn't ask what was the most practical survival book.

This is a great book IMO

Naked Into The Wilderness is the Bible when it comes to wilderness survival.

https://www.amazon.com/Primitive-Wilderness-Living-Survival-Skills/dp/0967877776/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1524892598&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_FMwebp_QL65&keywords=naked+into+the+wilderness