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Camping and Woodcraft
- 479 pages · about 8 hours
- First published 1916
- 6 editions
- Free to read
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1 About this book
Camping and Woodcraft is an American classic published by Horace Kephart in 1916, detailing the practical skill-sets needed to endure the harsh conditions of the wilderness, and to make that experience more enjoyable to the amateur outdoorsman. The work is a revised and expanded edition of Kephart's 1906 Camping and Woodcraft, a pocket-manual published by the author with the expressed purpose of rendering practical advice and skills to those who travel with minimal gear in places where there are no roads. The 1906 printing of the pocket-manual passed through 7 editions in the space of ten years.
Kephart's work, as an instructive manual on where and how to camp, follows in the footsteps of E.R. Wallace's Descriptive Guide to the Adirondacks and Handbook of Travel (1875). Much of the material, however, used in the compilation of Kephart's book is based on the author's own first-hand experiences in the wilderness which he transcribed in the field.
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- Camping
- Outdoor life
- Camping, north america
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