| Edition |
First Skyhorse Publishing Edition. |
| Descript |
xvi, 331 pages : black and white illustrations ; 18 cm |
| Note |
Nonfiction. |
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Includes index. |
| Contents |
Outfitting -- The sportsman's clothing -- Personal kits -- Tents and tools -- Utensils and food -- A check-list: packing up -- The camp -- The camp-fire -- Marksmanship in the woods -- Dressing and keeping game and fish -- Camp cookery -- Pests of the woods -- Forest travel. Keeping a course -- Blazes-survey lines-natural signs of direction -- Getting lost-bivouacs -- Emergency foods-living off the country -- Edible plants of the wilderness -- Axemanship-qualities of wood and bark -- Trophies, bucksin and rawhide -- Tanning pelts-other animal produts -- Accidents: their backwoods treatment. |
| Summary |
"Originally published in 1906, Horace Kephart's Camping and Woodcraft: A Handbook for Vacation Campers and Travelers in the Woods stands more than a century later as a classic in outdoors writing. It provides expertly detailed answers to hundreds of practical problems that arise on every outing in the great outdoors." -- back cover. |
| Subject |
Camping.
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Outdoor life.
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| ISBN/ISSN |
1510722602 |
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9781510722606 |
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