Camp-Lore and Woodcraft Essentials for Outdoor Skills

Be at home in nature, all through the year, with the old-timey, folksy wisdom in this classic camping companion.
First published in 1920, and never out-of-print, Daniel C. Beard’s The Book of Camp-Lore & Woodcraft is a guide from yesteryear for enjoying the great outdoors as its guest.
Through the pages of this book, the author, a pioneer of the scouting movement, takes kids on a camping trip and instructs them in the art of building a fireplace and lighting a fire, designing a campsite, pitching a tent, cooking flapjacks, packing a trail horse, handling an axe, and much more.
Daniel Carter Beard was an expert outdoorsman and founder of the scouting movement in America. His goal was to help kids to enjoy the out-of-doors as much as he did. In his books, filled with time-tested tips and knowledgable advice, Beard helped preserve invaluable folkways that instill self-reliance and a deeper appreciation of nature―all while having a world of fun. This is truly a book for all ages―including adults.

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The American Boy’s Handy Book: What to Do and How Do It

There’s so much to do and discover with this truly Handy Book as a guide. Daniel C. Beard, a founder of the scouting movement in America, helped preserve invaluable folkways that can instill self-reliance and a deeper appreciation of nature. Here are projects, crafts, and plans for camping trips, hikes, or the backyard. It contains plans for 16 kinds of kites and hot-air balloons and fishing tackle, how to make and stock an aquarium, to construct a water telescope and how to camp out without a tent. Or in a hut made from pine boughs. Here’s a world of fun for all ages.

The American Girl’s Handy Book: How to Amuse Yourself and Others

Projects, devices, toys, gifts, wax and clay modeling, painting, and more. Written for children in 1893 by the Beard sisters (two founders of the girls scouting movement–when they weren’t campaigning for women’s rights), and valuable for both kids and adults today . As Anne M. Boylan writes in her foreword, ”Healthy and spirited, the American Girl thinks nothing of taking a ten-mile ‘romp’ through woods and fields with a group of friends, and collects flowers and leaves for preservation or presentation to friends and relations.

The Field and Forest Handy Book: New Ideas for Out of Doors

Everything for all ages to have some serious outdoor fun. Daniel C. Beard’s great passion was making boys and girls feel at home in the great outdoors. Written in 1906, the purpose is timeless: help young people experience nature’s wonders while fostering self-sufficiency and independence. There are chapters on packing a horse, on making clothes and moccasins, on camp cooking, on building piers, boats, sleds, kites, birdhouses, snow houses, and much more.

The Book of Camp-Lore & Woodcraft

Camp, explore, hike―get outdoors and be at home in nature. First published in 1920, here’s a classic companion for enjoying the great outdoors. The author provides instructions for the art of building and lighting a fire, designing a campsite, pitching a tent, cooking flapjacks (not to mention muskrats and porcupines), packing a trail horse, and handling an axe. The Field and Forest Handy Book, like all of the Beard family books, are still invaluable—even after 100 years. Knowing how to do things never gets old.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ David R. Godine, Publisher
Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 1, 2008
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 270 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1567923526
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1567923520
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11.2 ounces
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 9 – 14 years
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.02 x 0.72 x 7.64 inches
Grade level ‏ : ‎ 4 – 8
Best Sellers Rank: #370,530 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #156 in Nature Crafts #215 in Camping (Books) #483 in Hiking & Camping Instructional Guides
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