Doomsday DefenseShelter, Fire & Bushcraft
Camping & Woodcraft
Classic woodcraft and camping know-how: picking a campsite, packing, travel on foot and by canoe, and living comfortably outdoors.
Field notes
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How to Build a Fire That Actually Lights
Fires fail for lack of small fuel, not big logs. Gather tinder, pencil-thin kindling and split dry wood first, then build up from the smallest pieces.
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Six Knots Worth Learning First
Square knot, sheet bend, clove hitch, two half-hitches, timber hitch and bowline cover most survival jobs: joining, tying off, hauling and fixed loops.
In the library
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Camp Life in the Woods and the Tricks of Trapping and Trap Making
W. Hamilton Gibson's illustrated 1881 guide to camp shelters, log huts, canoes, and building and setting traps, snares and deadfalls.
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The Book of Camp-Lore and Woodcraft
Dan Beard's 1920 handbook on fire by friction and flint, cooking fires, camp kitchens, packing horses and dogs, and axe and saw work.
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Woodcraft
Nessmuk's classic 1884 pocket guide to traveling light in the woods: camps, campfires, cooking, and getting lost and found again.