The Wilderness Survival Guide provides a large collection of rules for wilderness adventures. The black and white illustrations are very good. The rules are well-written. The writing is a bit dry with the occasional joke thrown in. The rules try to strike a balance between heroism and realism in terms of their application. The book is a great resource. For example if you want to run an adventure where the the characters must escape from a prison camp into a cold winter and survive the journey back to freedom, this book provides lots of rules that would help with that simulation, including rules for frostbite, hypothermia, finding food, water, and shelter, starting a fire, as well as rules for moving through the wilderness. In D&D, every once in a while getting to your destination should be a huge part of the adventure. This book provides lots of add-on rules for an interesting trip through the wilderness.