WOODCRAFT AND CAMPING: The Ultimate Survival Guide for Campers and Backpackers Author: Nessmuk / George Washington Sears | Language: English | ISBN:
B008N17ET8 | Format: PDF
WOODCRAFT AND CAMPING: The Ultimate Survival Guide for Campers and Backpackers Description
WOODCRAFT AND CAMPING: The Ultimate Survival Guide for Campers and Backpackers (Illustrated)
By: Nessmuk / George Washington Sears
This is a book that campers should not be without; learn everything you need to know for your camping trip and how to survive in the wilderness.
-New Modern Illustrations
-Edited and Corrected
-Updated Kindle Formatting
Contents:
CHAPTER I Overwork and Recreation—Outing and Outers—How to Do It, And Why They Miss It
CHAPTER II Knapsack, Hatchet, Knives, Tinware, Fishing Tackle, Rods, Ditty-bag
CHAPTER III Getting Lost—Camping Out—Roughing It or Smoothing It—Insects—Camps, And How to Make Them
CHAPTER IV Campfires and Their Importance—the Wasteful Wrong Way They Are Usually Made, And the Right Way to Make Them
CHAPTER V Fishing, With and Without Flies—Some Tackle and Lures—Discursive Remarks On the Gentle Art—the Headlight—Frogging
CHAPTER VI Camp Cookery—How It Is Usually Done, With A Few Simple Hints on Plain Cooking—Cooking Fire and Outdoor Range
CHAPTER VII More Hints On Cooking, With Some Simple Receipts—Bread, Potatoes, Soups, Stews, Beans, Fish, Meat, Venison
CHAPTER VIII A Ten Days' Trip in the Wilderness—Going It Alone
CHAPTER IX the Light Canoe and Double Blade—Various Canoes for Various Canoeists—Reasons for Preferring the Clinker-Built Cedar
CHAPTER X Odds And Ends—Where to Go For an Outing—Why A Clinker?—Boughs and Browse
- File Size: 608 KB
- Print Length: 70 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1463799659
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B008N17ET8
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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- Lending: Enabled
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #132,960 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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At the close of the 19th Century, long before the advent of ultralight gear, synthetics, and freeze dried food, Nessmuck was an advoacate of minimalist camping, his own load equalling about 26 pounds including his canoe; a 10 pound cedar strip wonder made by legendary wooden canoe maker J. H. Rushton. Nessmuk (the nom de plume of George Washington Sears) was 65 years old, weighed about 105 pounds and was probably suffering from tuberculosis when he decided to solo canoe the Adirondack Lakes. While most of his camping techniques are outdated, there is much in both his methods and philosophy from which even the most modern backpacker and canoeist can learn, and it is an excellent read besides.
By Joseph Ruckman
I have been buying multiple copies of Nessuk's two books to give away since I was a kid (I'm 71 on 15 Aug 05). I was stimulated to return to the book by a plague of horseflies and mosquitoes, recalling that Nessmuk had a repellant that actually seemed to be a skin tonic. Three parts pine tar, two parts castor oil, and one part pennyroyal oil, simmer gently. Rub on. It works like a charm. In context you can see that Nessmuk rubbed it on and then didn't wash for six weeks or so, but that's real men in the real woods. If you are a father and haven't given Two Little Savages (Ernest Thomas Seton) and Nessmuk's books to your
son, you just really aren't ready to Advance Into The Woods. Its also an enjoyable read. Its encouraging to me that "Nessmuk" gets you >5,000 hits on google. Go explore.
Thank God for Dover Books.
George von Hilsheimer, Ph.D., occasional woodsman and swamp creature
By G. VONHILSHEIMER III
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