Karamat Wilderness Ways: 26 books

Mors Kochanski’s enthusiasm for wilderness recreation, his extensive knowledge of the field, and his desire to learn everything there is to know about the wilderness has made him one of the foremost authorities on wilderness skills in the world. In a time when much of today’s literature...

Basic Wilderness Survival in Deep Snow This training booklet involving shelters that incorporate snow, the safe use and construction of the Roycraft snowshoe, the concise coverage of dressing for the cold which supplements "Basic Wilderness Survival in Cold Lacking Snow". Written by Mors Kochanski

Wilderness Steam Bath   This booklet deals with a means of achieving physical cleanliness in a way not possible through showering or bathing. The health benefits, the social aspects and the usefulness in acclimatizing to the cold makes the Steam Bath an important adjunct to...

Basic Wilderness Survival in Cold Lacking Snow This is a concise training booklet that would require at least a three day course to cover the skills involved. It is the most important booklet of the series and the information in the other booklets is supplementary to it. Fire and shelter...

Basic Safe Travel and Boreal Survival - Gems from Wilderness Arts and Recreation Magazine This manual covers the following - Clothing-Sleeping Bag-Axe-Saw-Knife-Fire-Shelter-Bush Bed-The Most Edible Boreal Plants and Mushrooms-Cooking-Signal Fires-Current Survival Knowledge-Survival Kits for...

The Compass   This booklet is the companion volume to Map Use. It is the minimal knowledge anyone stepping into the wilderness should have about compass use. This is not an orienteering manual. Written by Mors Kochanski

  Basic Weather Knowledge This booklet is meant to help you determin today's weather in the morning and tomorrow's weather in the evening as what may occur within your immediate horizons, so that you may act accordingly to improve your chances of survival. Written by Mors Kochanski

Top Seven Knots and the Use of the Windlass   1. Jam, 2. Constrictor, 3. Non-inverting Slippery Bowline, 4. Slippery Sheet Bend, 5. Slippery Figure of 8, 6. Prusik, 7. Reef. As knots are found in families, there are a few bonus knots included. Favour the ones you find most...

Tools of Survival and Survival Training   This is a training booklet that applies to all walks of life, including the sharpness of the knife one chooses to use in survival. The time taken to master knife sharpening is highly variable. Once you know what to do the fast learner...

  Knife Sharpening This is a training booklet that applies to all walks of life, including the sharpness of the knife one chooses to use in survival. The time taken to master knife sharpening is highly variable. Once you know what to do the fast learner takes about 4 accumulated...

  Survival Kit Ideas This booklet assists in developing the rationale in compiling a "survival" kit, specifically the 2 kg. kit. It requires a good read and is of no real use to you in the field. Written by Mors Kochanski

  Map Use With a topographic map in front of you and the basic information in this booklet to augment it you may get more out of using the map. Written by Mors Kochanski

A Survival Kit Shelter, The Super Shelter and Some of It's Variants The topic of bush survival shelters can be extensive and complex. To some, shelter simply means a roof over one's head, a place to get in out of the rain or more generally, something that provides protection from the various...

  Basic Netting This training booklet covers basic netting as practiced by the Grand Banks fishermen. This booklet was brought out as it is not easy to locate information on netting techniques. The knowledge or direction for constructing functional fishing nets is left for...