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PRIMITIVE / SURVIVAL SKILLS

In the Wake: A Collective Manual-in-Progress for Outliving Civilization - Excerpt Booklet #1. By Aric McBay. $8
Oversize booklet. 44 pages.
Like it or not, industrial civilization is on the verge of collapse. Either you're aware of this, and perhaps even committed to hurrying it along in the interests of this planet and every living being on it, or you're not, but either way, you need to check this out. Do you know how to get drinking water once it stops coming out of the tap? Do you know what you're going to eat and how you're going to cook it when the food, transport and energy industries sputter out? No, we didn't either! In the Wake is "a crash course for the crash", with clear, simple instructions, suggestions and diagrams detailing all manner of survival essentials. This first booklet focuses on water access and purification, latrines and greywater, cool food storage, cooking, quick lighting and heat, and dealing with rubbish. There's also an introduction detailing the premises and purposes of In the Wake, and an excellent reading list. This is 44 oversize pages of information that will be worth far more than its weight in gold in the not-too-distant future.

(NOTE: The In the Wake website has downloadable and html versions of the entire booklet, plus all kinds of other wonderful stuff. Click here to check it out.)

Naked Into The Wilderness: Primitive Wilderness Living & Survival Skills. By John & Geri McPherson. $35
Paperback book. 408 pages. ISBN 0-9678777-7-6.
If you have been accustomed to reading books on wilderness skills that entertain you but fall short of actually teaching you how to accomplish the tasks and skills at hand, you are in for a pleasant suprise. Over 700 photographs and a coupla dozen line drawings crammed into 400 pages presents for the first time the "how-to" on primitive skills. Each chapter - covering everything from making and using primitive tools to hunting, trapping and gathering food, to semi-permenant shelters - was first written and published as a complete book. The authors know of what they write - this is not a compilation of other authors' works nor a rehashing and perpetuation of myths. The McPhersons not only know their stuff but also how to present it.

"This is without doubt the best training guide for real primitive living skills." - Museum of the Fur Trade Quarterly

Walking Softly With Koa - Part 1: A Beginners Guide to Surviving and Enjoying the Australian Bush (Common Bush Foods / Sustainable Lifestyle). $15
DVD. 65 minutes. PAL/all regions.
"For Koa, his lifestyle is a quest for the kind of freedom a wallaby has. The knowledge to provide for yourself in the Australian bush. Drawing on a lifetime of living close to nature, Koa takes the you on a journey of how to survive and thrive in the bush."

Walking Softly With Koa - Part 2: Bush Tucker and Survival Skills. $15
DVD. 53 minutes. PAL/all regions.
Part 2 of Koa's Walking Softly documentary includes instructional musings on bush first aid, weaving sandals, making a harvest basket, and of course lots of bush tucker.

Koa Windsong with Willie Brim in Bulwai Country. $15
DVD. 34 minutes. PAL/all regions.
For this DVD Koa teams up with Willie Brim, a custodian of Bulwai Country (Davies Creek area in North Queensland), and togther the two of them discuss aboriginal culture and traditional connection to the land. Koa's educational segments on bush tucker and bush skills are also informed by his knowledge of traditional Bulwai practices.

Bush Tucker With Koa. $15
DVD. 47 minutes. PAL/all regions.
"Koa has been teaching children natural living skills for a lifetime. Home-schooling three of his own children, he has taught Steiner school teachers to teach children spinning, weaving, crocheting, and many other natural living skills. Koa's intention with this documentary is to inspire children to spend more time in nature. Enticing them to learn all that they can about bush tucker, so if they get lost or don't make it back to camp before nightfall, they will not go hungry."

All prices are postage paid in Australia.

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