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Wild Plants and Survival Lore: Secrets of the Forest

Wild Plants and Survival Lore: Secrets of the Forest

by Mark Warren
Wild Plants and Survival Lore: Secrets of the Forest
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Wild Plants and Survival Lore: Secrets of the Forest

Wild Plants and Survival Lore: Secrets of the Forest

by Mark Warren

Overview

In this first volume of his Secrets of the Forest series, nature educator Mark Warren explains how to identify and use 100 wild plants as food, medicine, and craft. He also covers “primitive” survival skills, from building a shelter, to purifying water, making tools, traps, and snares. With more than 200 original hands-on activities, the book is a step-by-step guide for teachers, scout leaders, outing clubs, and wilderness programs, and anyone interested in the outdoors and forgotten skills. Hikers who want to carry less gear and become more self-reliant by using what the forest has to offer, will find tricks in these pages to lighten their loads. Outdoor rec professionals will expand their knowledge of their natural surroundings to share with their clients. And parents who seek a closer relationship with nature for themselves and their children will learn to become active, adventurous participants in the forest, rather than just occasional visitors.

Volume 2: The Art of Creating Fire and Storytelling and Ceremony

Volume 3: Eye to Eye with Animals and at Play in the Wild

Volume 4: The Art of Archery and Lake to Whitewater Canoeing

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781493045556
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date: 04/01/2020
Pages: 272
Sales rank: 1,088,178
Product dimensions: 8.40(w) x 10.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

About The Author
Mark Warren owns and runs nationally renowned Medicine Bow Wilderness School in the mountains of North Georgia where he teaches nature classes and primitive skills of the Cherokee. Mark has taught survival courses to thousands of schools and groups all over the country. In 1980, the National Wildlife Federation honored Mark as Georgia’s Conservation Educator of the Year. In 1998 Mark became the U.S. National Champion in whitewater canoeing, and in 1999, he won the World Championship Longbow title. He is the author of the memoir Two Winters in a Tipi published in 2012 by Lyon’s Press.

Table of Contents

Foreword ix

Author's Note xi

Part 1 The Magic and Mystery of Plants 1

Chapter 1 In the Beginning … There Are Plants 3

Chapter 2 The Pieces of the Whole 9

Chapter 3 Venturing Out into the Known and the Unknown 33

Chapter 4 How to Interact with Plants 53

Chapter 5 Plants Are Waiting for You 65

Chapter 6 100 Plants-And Their Many Gifts 77

Chapter 7 Browsing the Green Market-Edible Plants of the Wild 127

Chapter 8 The Green Pharmacy-Medicines from Plants 131

Chapter 9 A Lifetime Supply of Everything You Need 135

Chapter 10 Poison Ivy 139

Chapter 11 Winter Botany 147

Part 2 The Lore of Survival 157

Author's Note 159

Chapter 12 The First Step-Getting Started in Survival Skills 165

Chapter 13 The Ties That Bind-Cordage 171

Chapter 14 Oh, Give Me a Home-Shelter Building 185

Chapter 15 Sticks and Stones-The Multiuse Rabbit Stick 207

Chapter 16 Water, Water Everywhere-Water Purification 215

Chapter 17 Hors Dbeuvres of Protein-Adventures with Larvae 223

Chapter 18 A Kitchen in the Forest-Cooking in the Wild 227

Chapter 19 An Army of Silent Hunters-Traps and Snares 235

Bibliography 247

Index 249

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