Handbook

This book opens a new world of sport. Beginning with the making of campfires, the author initiates the lover of outdoor life into all the mysteries of woodcraft.

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Hog dressing, log cabin building, mountain crafts and foods, plantings by the signs, snake lore, hunting tales, faith healing, moonshining, and other affairs of plain living.

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Use this complete outdoorsman handbook to help you get ready for surviving in the outdoors.

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The aim of the books in this series is self-development. They show how to do things instead of dealing in description. This idea of doing for one's self is the keynote of this book of camping, woodcraft, and various phases of the outdoor life which has grown so enormously in favor of recent years.

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This book, although prepared for young men -- for students more especially -- contains much information that will prove valuable for campers-out in general.

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This book is a little primer for those who wish to minimise their needs, to waste as little of their lives as may be in the money-making pursuits of the factory and the marketplace, and so to have the maximum of time for the pleasures of real living and independent growth.

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The average outdoorsman does not have to be a wilderness survival expert, but he should know the basics. After all, almost everyone can become lost or lose his gear when his canoe is upset in a choppy wilderness lake. The outdoorsman should know all this and much more.

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In a simple, but entertaining way, the author explains the principles of living off nature when emergency arises. From a multitude of experiences in the woods, he demonstrates through sketches made by his wife.

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This book contains practical points on how to dress for hunting, fishing, or other camping trips; what to provide in the way of bedding, tents, eatables, cooking utensils, and all kinds of camp equipage; how to select camping grounds; how to build camps, or shelters of various kinds; how to build camp fires; what to do in case of getting lost; and on many other topics in connection with the subject of outdoor life.

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To share with others the author's experience has been his aim in writing the book. The various chapters have been worked out from a practical viewpoint, the desire being to make a handbook of suggestions for those in charge of camps for boys and for boys who go camping, rather than a theoretical treatise upon the general subject.

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