Doomsday Defense Library Shelter, Fire & BushcraftFood
Book · 1884
Woodcraft
Historical text. Written in 1884. The camp and fire craft holds up; the hunting and fishing practices, and the attitudes to wildlife, do not reflect modern law or ethics.
George Washington Sears wrote under the pen name “Nessmuk” and spent decades living and traveling alone in the Adirondacks and the woods of Pennsylvania and Michigan. Woodcraft is his short, opinionated field book for “outers”: carry little, know how to make a dry camp and a good fire, and you can be comfortable anywhere.
It remains one of the best-loved books on lightweight camping. Read the chapters on campfires and the open-front shanty-tent alongside our fire and shelter notes.
- Author
- Nessmuk (George Washington Sears)
- Published
- 1884, Forest and Stream Publishing Co.
- Topics
- Camping & Woodcraft, Shelter, Fire, Camp & Off-Grid Cooking
- Rights
- Public domain: published in the United States before 1930.
- Transcription
- Project Gutenberg eBook #24579
Contents
- Chapter I — Overwork And Recreation — Outing And Outers
- Chapter II — Knapsack, Hatchet, Knives, Tinware, Fishing Tackle, Rods, Ditty-bag
- Chapter III — Getting Lost — Camping Out — Roughing It Or Smoothing It — Insects
- Chapter IV — Campfires And Their Importance
- Chapter V — Fishing, With And Without Flies — Some Tackle And Lures
- Chapter VI — Camp Cookery
- Chapter VII — More Hints On Cooking, With Some Simple Receipts
- Chapter VIII — A Ten Days' Trip In The Wilderness—Going It Alone
- Chapter IX — The Light Canoe And Double Blade
- Chapter X — Odds And Ends — Where To Go For An Outing — Why A Clinker?