Uniquely Australian, and the first Australian bushcraft book to be
published and gain a wide readership, The Bush Boy's Book was
published in 1911 and was considered compulsory bushcraft reading
until at least the 1940s for all bushmen, scouts, cadets, army
recruits, farmer's sons and early outdoor enthusiasts of all types.
This was the book our grandfathers and great grandfathers
ravenously pored over by gas, kerosene or candle light, committing
every little hint and tip to memory. Today, over 100 years after it
was first published, this fine book has been all but forgotten.
It's time to bring it to a new generation of bushcrafters, scouts
and outdoor recreation devotees. In October 1911, the Perth Western
Mail's Literary Editor had this to say about the book: "The Bush
Boy's Book, by Donald MacDonald, comprises 260 pages of excellently
printed matter, which should prove invaluable to anyone, boy or
man, who enjoys or wishes to know anything about life in the open.
For Boy Scouts it will furnish a gold mine of information. The
author has the trick of making his descriptions perfectly
comprehensible. He would seem to have left nothing out - beds and
bivouacs, camps, codes, camp cookery, fishing, game, guns,
bushcraft, shooting, swimming, bush surgery, snakes, 'things worth
knowing', traps and snares, tips and instruction on all manner of
things that concern bushmen; how to extricate oneself when lost,
how not to get lost at all, how to be happy though bushed, to make
beds, meals and shelters, etc., etc. It is written for Australians,
by Australians from an Australian point of view, and the
letterpress is supplemented by diagrams that leave nothing to be
misunderstood. Both the author and the publisher are to be
congratulated on a praiseworthy work."
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