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High impact camping at its best!:
If you prefer a wall-tent, buckskins and an axe to goretex and gas stoves, this book is for you. Old time wood-skills by an experienced man, and a good writer. Some of the equipment detail is outdated (this book was originally written 70 years ago), but there is so much good stuff on everything from dressing and cooking game, to using an axe, to building camp furniture, compass work, marksmanship, and a whole lot more.
Comprehensive volume of camping techniques circa 1910:
This is one of the finest outdoor books ever written--as evidenced by the fact that it is still in print 70 years after it was penned. The reason? Kephart actually lived in the woods and personally refined the techniques he discusses. Yes, the technology has advanced. But trees and animals haven't changed, nor has the best way to snare an animal nor the best way to construct a log cabin. Given a choice of one book to take into the woods, this should be it.
A MUST HAVE FOR THE OUTDOORSMAN:
I have had a copy of this book since I was in Highschool. It is full of ideas and the how to do of life in the woods. I have never grown tired of reading it and find myself constantly returning to it. It is woodslore at its best and a link to the past.
| Author: | Horace Kephart | | Binding: | Paperback | | Dewey Decimal Number: | 796.54 | | EAN: | 9780870495564 | | Edition: | Facsimile | | ISBN: | 0870495569 | | Publication Date: | 1988-12 |
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