Wildwood wisdom (original 1945; edition 1992)

by Ellsworth Jaeger

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This historical guide, originally written in 1945, includes information on making fires, canoeing, using axes and knives, and crafting shelters from hand-gathered materials. Readers also learn about clothing, gear, and useful plants. This book also is an account of life in the 1800s, when survival in the wild depended on one's skill and ingenuity.… (more)

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Title:	Wildwood wisdom
Authors:	Ellsworth Jaeger
Info:	Bolinas, Calif. : Berkeley, Calif. : Shelter Publications ; Distributed by Ten Speed Press, [1992]
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The best ever book about nature, outdoors, woods crafts, Native American crafts, wild foods ect.
A bit like another of my favorites, Two Little Savages by Ernest Thompson Seton but more detailed on how to actually do things. Someday I will actually make the Kentucky Burgoo Stew in a cast iron pot over an open fire outdoors. I think I will probably never make the moose hock moccasins though. (

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1945

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To Zetta My Wife Companion of the Trails.

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The myriad jingle-jangle gadgets of some of our modern outdoorsmen would make our ancestral buckskin men turn in their graves.

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This historical guide, originally written in 1945, includes information on making fires, canoeing, using axes and knives, and crafting shelters from hand-gathered materials. Readers also learn about clothing, gear, and useful plants. This book also is an account of life in the 1800s, when survival in the wild depended on one's skill and ingenuity.

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