The Great Outdoors

An Essential Collection of 14 eBooks on CD for Hikers, Walkers, Ramblers, Amblers, Campers, Backpackers, Fell Walkers, Orienteers, Campers, Climbers, Mountaineers, Woodsmen, Hunters, Countrymen, the Military, the T.A. and all those who live, work or play in the Great Outdoors.

This information-packed CD contains 14 US Army Manuals and Factsheets - over 2,000 pages and hundreds of illustrations - which you can either view on your computer or print out.  US Military Manuals are renowned as one of the most comprehensive and in-depth sources of information on a huge range of topics. This amazing collection offers the most comprehensive information available on a range of essential subjects for those venturing into the Great Outdoors.

The manuals are supplied in multi-platform PDF format and the Adobe Reader is supplied free to enable you to read them.

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What’s on the CD – at a glance…

• Map Reading and Navigation

• Orienteering - How to Avoid Getting Lost

• Wilderness Medicine Course

• Guide to Staying Healthy

• Injurious Plants

• Poisonous Snakebite Treatment

• Adverse Effects of Cold

• Basic Cold Weather Manual

• Care and Use of Individual Clothing and Equipment

• Camouflage

• Survival

• Summer Survival Course

• Survival Shelters

• Water Survival
   

 
What’s on the CD – in detail…

Map Reading and Land Navigation
(US Army Field Manual FM 5-20)
175 pages, fully illustrated - this manual alone is selling for £4.99 on eBay! Sections include – Part One – Map Reading. Training Strategy; Maps; Marginal Information and Symbols; Grids; Scale and Distance; Direction; Overlays; Aerial Photographs. Part Two – Land Navigation. Navigation Equipment and Methods; Elevation and Relief; Terrain Association; Mounted Land Navigation; Navigation in Different Types of Terrain; Unit Sustainment; Field Sketching; Map Folding Techniques; Units of Measure and Conversion Factors; Orienteering; M2 Compass; Additional Aids; Foreign Maps; Global Positioning System (GPS).

Orienteering - How to Avoid Getting Lost
(US Army GTA 05-02-013)
23 pages, fully illustrated. Sections include – Introduction; Finding Your Location; Determining the Distance; Finding the Correct Direction; Other Methods of Finding Direction; Finding Your Position; Determining Relief and Elevation.

Wilderness Medicine Course
(US Marine Corps - Student Course Manual)
375 pages, fully illustrated. Sections include – Mountain Safety; Nutrition; Wilderness Patient Assessment; High Altitude Illness; Heat Related Injuries; Combat Casualty Care; Burn Management; Hypothermia and Rewarming; Submersion Incidents; Wilderness Orthopedic Injuries; Treatment of Reptile and Anthropoid Envenomation; Cold Injuries; Land navigation; Search and Rescue; Triage; Preventative Medicine and Water Treatment; Survival Techniques; Swift Water Rescue; Climbing.

Guide to Staying Healthy
(US Army GTA 08-05-062)
2 x A3 page factsheet. A sensible approach to staying healthy in the field - print it out and keep it in your day sack! It even includes a wind-chill table.

Injurious Plants
(US Army GTA 08-05-055)
4 page illustrated factsheet. Sections include – Injurious Plants, Symptoms, Prevention and First Aid - print it out and keep it in your day sack! 

Poisonous Snakebite Treatment
(US Army GTA 08-05-047)
4 page illustrated factsheet. Sections include – Vipers, Elapids, Symptoms and First Aid - print it out and keep it in your day sack! 

Adverse Effects of Cold
(US Army – GTA 08-06-12) 
2 pages. Overview of Frostbite, Trench Foot and Immersion Foot - Cause, Symptoms and Prevention.

Basic Cold Weather Manual
(US Army – Field Manual FM 31-70) 
198 pages, fully illustrated. Sections include – Introduction; Individual Clothing and Equipment; Small Unit Living; Skiing and Snowshoeing; Movement; Combat Techniques; Small Unit Leaders.

Care and Use of Individual Clothing and Equipment
(US Army – Field Manual FM 21-15) 
69 pages, fully illustrated. Sections include – General Care and Maintenance; Protective Clothing and Equipment; Bivouac Equipment; Load-Carrying Equipment; Miscellaneous Clothing and Equipment.

Camouflage
(US Army Field Manual FM 5-20)
104 pages, fully illustrated. Sections include – Introduction; Detection; Concealment; Camouflage for the Individual; Field Fortifications; Vehicles and Artillery; Aircraft; Bivouacs, Command Posts and Supply Points; Large Scale and Relatively Permanent Installations; Decoy Installations.

Survival
(US Army – Field Manual FM 21-76) 
640 pages, fully illustrated including many colour illustrations. Sections include – Introduction; Psychology of Survival; Survival Planning and Survival Kits; Basic Survival Medicine; Shelters; Water Procurement; Firecraft; Food Procurement; Survival Use of Plants; Poisonous Plants; Dangerous Animals; Field Expedient Weapons, Tools and Equipment; Desert Survival; Tropical Survival; Cold Weather Survival; Sea Survival; Expedient Water Crossings; Field Expedient Direction Finding; Signalling Techniques; Survival Movement in Hostile Areas; Camouflage; Contact with People; Survival in Man-Made Hazards.

Summer Survival Course
(US Marine Corps Course Manual)
180 pages, fully illustrated. Sections include – Requirements for Survival; Survival Kit; Water Procurement; Expedient Shelters and Fires; Core Values and Mountain Leadership Challenges; Signalling and Recovery; Survival Navigation; Survival Traps and Snares; Survival Uses of Game; Expedient Tools, Weapons and Equipment; Foraging for Plants and Insects for Survival Uses; Survival Fishing; Tracking; Survival Medicine; Mountain Weather; Intro to Evasion; Animal Habits. 

Survival Shelters – Construction Manual
125 pages, fully illustrated. Sections include – Above Ground Fallout Shelters; Military Shelters; Below Ground Shelters; Below Ground Fallout Shelters; Below Ground Blast Shelter; Basement Fallout Shelter 1; Basement Fallout Shelter 2; Basement Fallout Shelter 3; Basement Fallout Shelter Multi-Use; Basement Fallout Shelter Prefab 1; Basement Fallout Shelter Prefab 2; Burial Vaults.

Water Survival Training
(US Army – Training Circular TC 21-21) 
49 pages, fully illustrated. Sections include – Introduction; Program Requirements; Classification and Evaluation; Class 3 Basic Survival Swimmer; Class 2 Intermediate Survival Swimmer; Class 1 Advanced Survival Swimmer.
 

All material contained on this CD are US government or other publications approved for public release. No copyright or trademarks have been broken.