Australian Wilderness Skills

Gardening & Environment Education & Reference Travel & Exploration

Australian Wilderness Skills distils Robert Rankin’s hard-won bushcraft into a compact 1983 paperback that still feels at home in a backpack or on a reference shelf. Clear step-by-step guidance and Rankin’s own illustrations walk readers through fire-starting, shelter-building and navigation tricks honed in the country’s toughest corners.

The 199 generously sized pages remain crisp, tight and free of dog-ears, making this vintage copy a pleasure to thumb through beside a campfire or in the planning stages of your next hike. It’s the sort of practical keepsake that outdoors-minded adults and capable teens return to again and again.

Collectors prize early Australian survival manuals, and an illustrated first printing in this tidy condition is getting harder to find. Grab it now to round out your adventure library without paying collector-fair prices.