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While woodcraft usually brings furniture to mind, this book is a guide to the craft of extended camping and travel in the woods. Now, bare in mind that the pictures are little better than period line drawings in black and white, but when used with the text and a little something called imagination and common sense, you can clearly get a picture of how it needs to be done. Nessmuks small stature and compromised health made him a proponent of lightweight backpacking and canoe travel with only essential gear, a lesson still relevant today. Woodcraft by nessmuk legendary canoeing guide, conservationist in the 1800s, and one of the first proponents of the hyper popular ultralight camping style. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Publication date 1906 topics camping, outdoor life publisher new york. What first became a quest to overcome the boundaries set against her in the form of dyslexia, has turned into a lifes dream.
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A guidebook for those who travel in the wilderness paperback dec 8 2011. George washington sears 1821 1890 was a sportswriter for forest and stream magazine in the 1880s and an early conservationist. The forerunner of the ultralight camping movement and the precursor to all other books on camping and traveling through the wilderness, woodcraft belongs on the bookshelf of every aspiring mountain person. A beacon of selfreliance with the intellectual appetite of the worlds most accomplished scholars, kephart spent his early years in voracious pursuit of knowledge as a.
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