"The Bushcraft Handbooks" were first published in Australia in
1952. Based on the Author's wartime service in Australia and New
Guinea teaching "Junglecraft" to Australian and American forces,
they are distilled, concentrated old-time bushcraft knowledge,
presented in a very easy to assimilate format. For those who
remember them, the Bushcraft Handbooks are also a heavy hit of
nostalgia. Rather than publish all of the volumes under the one
cover, the Author originally chose to publish each aspect of
bushcraft in its own individual handbook. His rationale was that
the reader was more inclined to take a 50 page handbook with him
into the wilds than a 400 page book. The former can be easily
slipped into a pocket or daypack, while the latter cannot. The
Bushcraft Handbooks are useless unless the reader practices the
skills the books were designed to impart. The individual handbooks
format was chosen to support that end. Out of print for decades,
and in keeping with the Author's wishes, this series of Bushcraft
Handbooks are reproduced as close to their original format as
possible. The series comprises the following volumes: Bush
Ropemaking, Bush Hutmaking, Traps & Snares, Bush Campcraft,
Time & Direction, Travel & Gear, Food & Water in the
Bush, Firemaking & Lighting, Trapping & Tracks, Knots &
Lashings. From the introduction to "Firemaking & Lighting" "The
ability to obtain fire is essential in the bush. Fire can provide
warmth, comfort, and protection. It is essential for the
preparation of food, because heat in one form or another chemically
affects the cells of plant foods, making some yield their
nourishment, and others release their toxic elements. Fire enables
man to cook flesh and also to preserve it by smoking or drying.
Fire is essential to make polluted water safe and drinkable. The
ability to obtain fire under any conditions, provided that
combustible material is available, is one of the first essentials
in out-of-door living. The confidence which follows when one
masters the skill of lighting fire with no equipment is remarkable.
Making fire by friction and other means is not easy, but when the
skill has been mastered, the person acquiring the skill acquires
greater knowledge of himself and greater confidence in his ability
to overcome obstacles, both valuable characteristics in all avenues
of life. The ability to make fire under almost any condition is
essential to the bushman."
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