Woodcraft and Camping is a collection of essays by George Washington Sears, known as Nessmuk, about wilderness travel and camp life. It offers practical advice on packs, knives, campfires, fishing, and making camp, along with reflections on simplicity and nature. Listeners may enjoy its plain, companionable guidance and its enduring regard for the outdoor life.
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WOODCRAFT AND CAMPING by "Nessmuk" DOVER PUBLICATIONS, INC. NEW YORK This Dover edition, first published in 1963, is a slightly abridged and edited republication of the work published by Forest and Stream Publishing Company, New York, in 1920 under the title Woodcraft. International Standard Book Number: 0-486-21145-2 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 63-21680 Manufactured in the United States of America Dover Publications, Inc. 31 East 2nd Street, Mineola, N.Y. 11501 Preface Woodcraft is dedicated to the Grand Army of "Outers," as a pocket volume of reference on—woodcraft. For brick and mortar breed filth and crime, With a pulse of evil that throbs and beats; And men are withered before their prime By the curse paved in with the lanes and streets. And lungs are poisoned and shoulders bowed, In the smothering reek of mill and mine;
And death stalks in on the struggling crowd— But he shuns the shadow of oak and pine. NESSMUK. Contents Page CHAPTER I 1 Overwork and Recreation—Outing and Outers—How to Do It, and Why They Miss It CHAPTER II 6 Knapsack, Hatchet, Knives, Tinware, Rods, Fishing Tackle, Ditty-Bag CHAPTER III 13 Getting Lost—Camping Out—Roughing It or Smoothing It—Insects—Camps, and How to Make Them CHAPTER IV 28 Camp-Fires and Their Importance—The Wasteful, Wrong Way They Are Usually Made, and the Right Way to Make Them CHAPTER V 35 Fishing, With and Without Flies—Some Tackle and Lures—Discursive Remarks on the Gentle Art—The Headlight—Frogging CHAPTER VI 49 Camp Cooking—How It Is Usually Done, with a Few Simple Hints on Plain Cooking —Cooking Fire and Out-Door Range CHAPTER VII 62
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