Written in 1884 under the pen name “Nessmuk”, “Woodcraft and Camping” is the classic and timeless guide on roughing it by expert woodsman George Washington Sears. Born the eldest of ten children in Massachusetts in 1821, Sears took the pen name “Nessmuk” from a Native American who befriended him as a child. This connection and an early exposure to books on Native American culture left Sears with a life-long love and appreciation for survival skills in the forest and adventure-seeking in the natural world. Sears made a living as a sportswriter for “Field and Stream” magazine and was an early conservationist and proponent of the ultra-light backpacking and canoeing movement, which remains popular to this day. Having remained in print ever since its original publication, “Woodcraft and Camping” remains as full of practical advice and instruction as it did when it was first published. This informative guide is a must-have for any outdoors enthusiast and provides priceless advice on building fires, cooking outside, building shelters, hunting, fishing, and the tools that are needed to survive in the wilderness. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper.

Woodcraft and Camping

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Sears, George Washington

Nessmuk

Crafts & Hobbies

Digireads.com Publishing

The Classic Guidebook For Survival In The Wilderness It is an age of hurry and worry. Anything slower than steam is apt to "get left." Fortunes are quickly made and freely spent. Nearly all busy, hard-worked Americans have an intuitive sense of the need that exists for at least one period of rest and relaxation during each year, and all--or nearly all--are willing to pay liberally, too liberally in fact, for anything that conduces to rest, recreation and sport. I am sorry to say that we mostly get swindled. As an average, the summer outer who goes to forest, lake or stream for health and sport, gets about ten cents' worth for a dollar of outlay. A majority will admit--to themselves at least--that after a month's vacation, they return to work with an inward consciousness of being somewhat disappointed--and beaten. We are free with our money when we have it. We are known throughout the civilized world for our lavishness in paying for our pleasures; but it humiliates us to know we have been beaten, and this is what the most of us know at the end of a summer vacation. To the man of millions it makes little difference. He is able to pay liberally for boats, buckboards and "body service," if he chooses to spend a summer in the North Woods. He has no need to study the questions of lightness and economy in a forest and stream outing. Let his guides take care of him; and unto them and the landlords he will give freely of his substance. I do not write for him, and can do him little good. But there are hundreds of thousands of practical, useful men, many of them far from being rich; mechanics, artists, writers, merchants, clerks, business men--workers, so to speak--who sorely need and well deserve a season of rest and relaxation at least once a year. To these, and for these, I write. Perhaps more than fifty years of devotion to "woodcraft" may enable me to give a few useful hints and suggestions to those whose dreams, during the close season of work, are of camp-life by flood, field and forest. I have found that nearly all who have a real love of nature and out-of-door camp-life, spend a good deal of time and talk in planning future trips, or discussing the trips and pleasures gone by, but still dear to memory. Contents CHAPTER I Overwork and Recreation--Outing and Outers--How to Do It, and Why They Miss It CHAPTER II Knapsack, Hatchet, Knives, Tinware, Rods, Fishing Tackle, Ditty-Bag CHAPTER III Getting Lost--Camping Out--Roughing It or Smoothing It--Insects--Camps, and How to Make Them CHAPTER IV Camp-Fires and Their Importance--The Wasteful, Wrong Way They Are Usually Made, and the Right Way to Make Them CHAPTER V Fishing, With and Without Flies--Some Tackle and Lures--Discursive Remarks on the Gentle Art--The Headlight--Frogging CHAPTER VI Camp Cooking--How It Is Usually Done, with a Few Simple Hints on Plain Cooking--Cooking Fire and Out-Door Range CHAPTER VII More Hints on Cooking, with Some Simple Receipts--Bread, Coffee, Potatoes, Soup, Stews, Beans, Fish, Meat, Venison CHAPTER VIII A Ten Days' Trip in the Wilderness--Going It Alone CHAPTER IX--CANOEING The Light Canoe and Double Blade--Various Canoes for Various Canoeists--Reasons for Preferring the Clinker-Built Cedar CHAPTER X Odds and Ends--Where to go for an Outing--Why a Clinker?--Boughs and Browse

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Survival & Emergency Preparedness

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

George Washington Sears (aka "Nessmuk") was not only a master woodsman, but he shared his knowledge of bushcraft with the public in print. His classic work "Woodcraft and Camping" provides a valuable and useful guide on all aspects of outdoor living and survival, from camp construction, fishing, hunting, needed tools and equipment, fire building, cooking and much more. Nessmuk provided the foundation from which later survival authors, such as the great Horace Kephart, would build. This is a needed work for anyone with an interest in camping or bushcraft. Photographic reproduction of the 1900 edition.

Sports & Outdoors

Hiking & Camping

Cornerstone Book Publishers

George Washington Sears (aka "Nessmuk") was not only a master woodsman, but he shared his knowledge of bushcraft with the public in print. His classic work "Woodcraft" provides a valuable and useful guide on all aspects of outdoor living and survival; from camp construction, fishing, hunting, needed tools and equipment, fire building, cooking and much more. Nessmuk provided the foundation from which later survival authors, such as the great Horace Kephart, would build. This is a needed work for anyone with an interest in camping or bushcraft. Photographic reproduction of the 1891 edition.

Woodcraft

2016 Reprint of 1884 Edition. George Washington Sears (aka "Nessmuk") was not only a master woodsman, but he shared his knowledge of bushcraft with the public in print. His classic work "Woodcraft and Camping" provides a valuable and useful guide on all aspects of outdoor living and survival, from camp construction, fishing, hunting, needed tools and equipment, fire building, cooking and much more. Nessmuk provided the foundation from which later survival authors, such as the great Horace Kephart, would build. In this work, one of America's most famous woodsmen and nature experts provides classic instructions for roughing it. His advice covers camping, hiking, building a fire, cooking out, shelters, tools and equipment, hunting and fishing, canoeing, and more. Useful, specific information and suggestions on all aspects of woodcraft. Originally published in 1920 as "Woodcraft". Illustrated.

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Woodcraft and Camping: Timeless Skills for the Modern Camper

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