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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.
As timely as it is timeless, this instructive book has captured the interest and imagination of boys for well over a century. Chapters on kite flying and fishing, rigging and sailing small boats, camping out without a tent, knot-tying for mountain climbing and other activities, as well as training dogs, raising wild birds, and other projects will appeal as much to today's youngsters as they did to children in the late 1800s. (Many of these enterprises have also been known to compete effectively with TV and video games.) Best of all, the projects have the power to inspire the imagination and help youngsters master new skills and experience the satisfaction of personal accomplishment. Unabridged republication of the edition originally published by Scribner, New York, 1890.
"A Connecticut Yankee" is Mark Twain's most ambitious work, a tour
de force with a science-fiction plot told in the racy slang of a
Hartford workingman, sparkling with literary hijinks as well as
social and political satire. Mark Twain characterized his novel as
"one vast sardonic laugh at the trivialities, the servilities of
our poor human race". The Yankee, suddenly transported from his
native nineteenth-century America to the sleepy sixth-century
Britain of King Arthur and the Round Table, vows brashly to "boss
the whole country inside of three weeks". And so he does. Emerging
as "The Boss", he embarks on an ambitious plan to modernize Camelot
- with unexpected results.
Each summer, millions of children complain, "There's nothing to
do." Originally published in 1888, The American Boy's Handy Book
resoundingly challenges this age-old dilemma by providing a huge
number of ideas for fun and instructional projects for young boys.
Everything from camping and kite building to raising dogs and
building boats is detailed for the would-be adventurer and do-it
your-selfer.
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