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Woodcraft and Camping

Nessmuk

Book Overview: 

"Woodcraft" is a book for "outers" with tips on how to "smooth it" rather than rough it in the woods. Although some of the methods, equipment and mores may be out of date or objectionable to modern readers, the stories of true wilderness travel tinged with subtle humor still have messages for those venturing out of doors. Nessmuk's small stature and compromised health made him a proponent of lightweight backpacking and canoe travel with only essential gear, a lesson still relevant today. There is a reason why "Woodcraft" and the slightly abridged, "Woodcraft and Camping", have been continuously in print since its original publication.

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .The Indian Camp

The simplest and most primitive of all camps is the "Indian camp." It [Pg 19] is easily and quickly made, is warm and comfortable, and stands a pretty heavy rain when properly put up. This is how it is made: Let us say you are out and have slightly missed your way. The coming gloom warns you that night is shutting down. You are no tenderfoot. You know that a place of rest is essential to health and comfort through the long, cold November night. You dive down the first little hollow until you strike a rill of water, for water is a prime necessity. As you draw your hatchet you take in the whole situation at a glance. The little stream is gurgling downward in a half choked frozen way. There is a huge sodden hemlock lying across it. One clip of the hatchet shows it will peel. There is plenty of smaller timber standing around; long, slim poles, with a tuft of foliage on top. Five minutes suffice to drop one of these, cut a twelve-foot pole from it, sh. . . Read More

Community Reviews

Woodcraft and Camping

This interesting book gives us the insight of life in the late 1880's. George Sears was a writer for an outdoor magazine titled, "Forest and Stream", which was published from 1873-1930. Sears wrote extensively about his canoeing trips through the Adirondacks and many lakes and s

Charming short classic book about roughing it in the outdoors, written 150 years ago. Still relevant, with funny stories woven into its practical advice.

A classic work by a classic woodsman

What can I say that others haven't? Little more if any. To each of us a classic such as this, crafted by no less than a legend, presents itself uniquely as an overlay to our own unique experiences. This there's nothing of likeness to compare it to. And thus it's c

For those nostalgists, who like to imagine what this land was like before being overrun with us people and coated in asphalt and concrete, this is a great little read. Written at a time when the "Northwest" was what we now call the Upper Midwest, the author spent his life guiding in the backwoods an

This 1884 book has never been out of print. For its first 70 years, that was probably due to utmost relevance. My reading of it still found applicable bits, tons in fact. Yet, there is much that is now distant and foreign, but in an entertaining way.

First called, Woodcraft, later editions go by, Woo

Wow... What an absolute hidden gym. For context, I stumbled upon this book in learning about different historical outdoor tools and knives, and found the Esee JG5 (Nessmuk style) knife where I learned of a gentleman named George Washington Sears who's considered the father of this style blade and in

Woodcraft and Camping falls into a genre of nonfiction that is akin to Rowland's 'Cache Lake Country', which is one of the few books I pull off the bookshelf to return to every few years, or Hoover's 'A Place in the Woods' - or for that matter any of the Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage publication

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