Camping and Woodcraft: A Handbook for Vacation Campers and Travelers in the Woods

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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. Praised byField & Stream as "an encyclopedia of living in the open," it provides expertly detailed answers to hundreds of practical problems that arise on every outing in the great outdoors. Within Camping and Woodcraft, you'll find tips on: Catching and cooking game with minimal effort
Practical provisions to bring
Navigating unfamiliar trails and terrains
Setting up camp
Useful woodsmanship and marksmanship skills to learn
And dozens more topics
Delivering timeless instructional wisdom, Camping and Woodcraft belongs on the shelf and in the backpack of every camper, hiker, and outdoor aficionado.

Author Bio

Horace Kephart was a popular American travel writer and librarian during the early twentieth century. During his lifetime, he published several books on the outdoors, including Camping and Woodcraft (1906), Camp Cookery (1910), and Our Southern Highlanders (1913). Kephart was an integral advocate in the creation of the National Parks System. He passed away in 1931 in Byson City, North Carolina.David Nash is a verifiable preparedness MacGyver. He is both an academically trained professional emergency manager as well as a personal prepper. Nash is also a homesteader who raises a variety of animals, bees, and plants in a small suburban yard. He runs the popular preppers blog www.tngun.com. He resides in Dickson, Tennessee.