Inspired by over twenty-five years of practicing and teaching bushcraft throughout North America, survival instructor Tony Nester recounts backcountry tales of nomadic adventures using traditional skills that have faded from the modern world. Laced with humor, insight, and nerve-wracking encounters with wildlife, sandstorms, flash floods, brutal cold, and unpredictable clients, reveals a rare look into the often misunderstood world of survival. Bare Bones Survival; Guardian; Flash Flood!; Survival Is All in Your Perspective; Cold; A Five Scorpion Night; KUYI; The Cave Where Tom Lived; Gramps; A Tale of Two Countries; Nightmare on Elm Creek; A Real Man; Ground Tales; Cowboy Tough; Bake, Chill, Repeat; Gift of the Deer; The Amazing Cowpie Firestarting Technique; Three Dog Night; When Yucca Was King; Al Sieber: Master of Bushcraft; The Schism Between Worlds.