Water and Fire Survival Handbook

Water and Fire Survival Handbook  — Your Guide to Finding Safe Drinking Water and Creating Fire in Almost Any Survival Situation, from a New York Times Bestselling Author and Survival Expert

New York Times bestselling author and survival school founder Tim MacWelch shows us how to find and provide safe drinking water in survival situations, and how to start a camp fire with a wide range of techniques and materials. In Water and Fire Survival Handbook, MacWelch illustrates and guides readers through the common supplies needed for gathering water and the knowledge necessary to know where to look to obtain water.  Learn how to find, disinfect, avoid cross-contamination, and store water in a wide range of environments and survival situations, and also, learn how to get by with less than you might have imagined. And since water and fire are closely tied in survival, you’ll also learn how to start a fire with modern methods (like matches and lighters) as well as ancient methods (such as friction fire techniques and focusing sunlight). Throughout this detailed handbook you’ll find:

• How to locate water on any landscape
• Effective ways to collect precipitation
• Traditional and modern water disinfection techniques
• How to find the necessary fuels to start fires
• The best ways to use modern fire ignition methods, like ferrocerium rods and lighters
• Primitive fire starting methods like the bow drill, flint & steel and the bamboo fire saw
• How to maintain a fire once it’s established and how to make sure it’s out when you are done  

Water and Fire Survival Handbook will give readers much more than just the knowledge to light a fire and provide safe drinking water; it provides tools to become a problem-solver and think outside the box in any situation.
 

Who Is Tim MacWelch?
 
Tim MacWelch has been an obsessed devotee of survival and self-reliance for over three decades. His love of the outdoors started at a young age, growing up on a farm in the Piedmont hills of Virginia. Eating wild edibles and learning about the animals in the forest were part of his rural youth, but as a teenager, he couldn’t get enough of the subject of survival. In his early twenties, he began working with kids through youth workshops for schools, church groups, the Boy Scouts, Cub Scouts, and other youth throughout the region. He still continues to volunteer his time and has worked with thousands of Scouts and other children over the past thirty years. In the spring of 1997, he opened a business teaching wilderness skills to adults, and he still continues this business today. Over the years, Tim has been a featured survival expert for National Geographic, CNN, Good Morning America, Conde Nast Traveller, Washington Post, Men's Journal, FOX 5 DC and several other organizations. Tim has also written scores of articles for OFF-GRID magazine, and is the lead storyteller for their regular feature article “What If?”. Tim has been writing for Outdoor Life magazine since 2010 and has become a regular contributor to the "Outdoor Life Survival" website, creating hundreds of blogs and articles for OutdoorLife.com.
 
Tim’s strong relationship with the Outdoor Life brand led to the publishing of Tim’s first book with OL’s sibling company, Weldon Owen publishing. Tim’s first three titles with Weldon Owen were on the New York Times Bestseller list in 2014 and 2015. Tim’s titles to date include:
 
Prepare For Anything – NY Times Bestseller, #3 Travel Dec 2014 and #3 Travel Jan 2015
Hunting & Gathering Survival Manual – NY Times Bestseller, #5 Travel Dec 2014 and #5 Travel Jan 2015 
How To Survive Anything – Released May 2015, NY Times Bestseller Nov 2015
The Ultimate Winter Survival Handbook – Released Oct 2015
How To Survive Off The Grid – Released Oct 2016
The Ultimate Bushcraft Survival Manual – Released Oct 2017
Ultimate Survival Hacks – Released Nov 2018
 
At the end of 2017, he also found a position at Survival Dispatch, writing for their monthly online magazine. Tim is also a husband and father of two beautiful girls, and still resides in Virginia.