Globe Pequot / Falcon Guides
Pages: 224
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Trim: 5½ x 8½
978-1-4930-4463-4 • Paperback • September 2019 • $18.95 • (£14.99)
978-1-4930-4464-1 • eBook • September 2019 • $18.00 • (£13.99)
Nate Summers, M.Ac., has been a survival skills instructor for over 20 years with a background in anthropology, Asian studies, and natural medicine. He taught and directed at the Wilderness Awareness School for over 15 years where he helped to start both the Anake Outdoor School and the Anake Leadership Program. Nate's passions include ethnobotany, natural mentoring, hunter-gatherer childhoods, natural movement, herbal medicine, internal martial arts, and leadership. He helped found the Vashon Wilderness Program and Outdoor Connections, and has served as a naturalist for King County Parks and Seattle Parks and Rec.
Nate holds a Master's degree from NIAOM (Northwest Institute of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine), and B.A.s in both anthropology and Asian studies from the University of Illinois. He has served as faculty for the Desert Institute of Healing Arts, the Asian Institute of Medical Studies, and as adjunct faculty for Prescott College. Nate likes to fish, practice internal martial arts, go on adventures with his family, and gather wild foods and medicine.
“Are you stressed out? Do you want to foster healthier relationships? This well-written engaging book will help you reconnect to your primal self, leading to a happier, healthier you.” – Nicole Apelian, Ph.D., co-star of the television show Alone, season 1 and 2
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“Through stories that invoke passion and practical pathways toward connection, Primal asks us to explore what it means to be human...this book is not just for people wanting to walk away from modern comforts, but to embrace the wild instincts in all of us.”
– Doniga Markegard, author of Dawn Again: Tracking the Wisdom of the Wild
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“Primal is a fascinating look at why getting a heavy dose of nature is more critical than it ever has been in human history. Nate Summers asks the deeper question of why paleo diets, crossfit, and survival shows are so popular - and how that relates to the animal that lives within all of us.”
– Dan Corcoran, Survival Skills Instructor/ Program Director - Wilderness Awareness School, author of Ignite
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"What is it about making fire that is so magical? What about the mystery of long-lost primitive survival skills, and the simple curiosity about what our pre-agricultural ancestors ate? In this book, you meet people who asked the same questions, then dedicated their lives to seeking the answers. Like you, they were searching for something lost long ago — a window to who we really are and a way to make sense of the world we have inherited."
– Tamarack Song, founder of the Teaching Drum Outdoor School, and author of Becoming Nature
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