I always think
Bushcraft is interesting...but it's so specific to the northern forests, with the sections about looking for black spruce to sleep under or whatever, that very little applies to me here on the coast. I like it but I agree, it's not really a survival manual.
And some of the advice is kind of weird. Excluding oxygen from cuts, does that actually do anything? The only doctor I ever asked was like...what? Or testing knife strength by hammering it into a tree and standing on it?
I'm sure the author is perfectly aware that his techniques are specific to his region but I always think of him talking about staying dry in the rain just by standing in front of a fire wearing wool socks and turning around and around like a rotisserie chicken and how the first time I read that I had just come back from spending a bunch of time in the bush around Cape Scott, in February.
Unless the fire you had to stand next to was the actual sun, it wouldn't have done much for that rain, which was often like standing in a cold shower. I know he wouldn't have said any different, it's not a critique of the idea, just an illustration of how location-specific it is.