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Editors Philip Elmer-DeWitt and Charles P. Alexander, along with senior reporter Barbara Maddux, had a lot of fun matching writer and question. Jon Krakauer, best-selling author of Into Thin Air, handles "Will There Be Any Wilderness Left?" while Peter Benchley (of Jaws fame) addresses the consequences of overfishing...
You step aboard the vaulting epic Ahab's Wife (Morrow; 668 pages; $28), by Sena Jeter Naslund, and almost instantly you are in New England in 1840, a charged, visionary realm atremble with religious longings and debate. Privets are shaped like sperm whales. Inns are kept by witches. Women ask...
Practicing wilderness first aid ensures that at least some of the benefits of treating within the golden hour are not lost. In urban first aid, for example, you're taught to splint a suspected sprain, strain or fracture as close as you can to the position you found it in...
That's just for starters. Two of the more accessible books on the subject are Country First Aid and Extended Care by Buck Tilton of the Wilderness Medical Institute in Pitkin, Colo. (Globe Pequot Press; $4.95), and Medicine for the Back Country by Tilton and SOLO's Hubbell (ICS Books...
Back when women were considered the weaker sex, it wasn't easy for them to learn and practice the outdoor skills men like Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett used to survive in the wilderness. Now it is. In weekend workshops organized by Becoming an Outdoors-Woman, a woman can acquire...