A Timeless Manual for Camp Life and Essential Woods SkillsThis deluxe reprint Legacy Edition of Elmer Kreps' Woodcraft is full of delightful "primitive" outdoors skills and tips for turning your campsite into the perfect wilderness home! Kreps offers advice on a number of important camp topics that are sure to help both the tenderfoot and the most veteran outdoorsman "skill up" with knowledge that may be forgotten in the modern age, but will never be outdated!This book includes timeless knowledge on multiple topics, including: log cabin building, permanent camp shelters, camp and cabin furnishing and gadgets, camp cookery and kitchen, campfires and cooking fire styles, fire making techniques, axe skills, snowshoeing, horse packing and saddlery, winter travel, and wilderness navigation.This book makes a perfect gift for campers, hunters, hikers, bushcrafters, outdoorsmen, folks who enjoy the forest and the open air, scouts, and scout leaders. A part of the Library of American Outdoors Classics: Volume 10This Doublebit Legacy Edition reprint of Woodcraft is professionally restored and presented from the original source with the highest degree of fidelity possible. Readers can enjoy this Legacy Edition for generations to come and learn from its timeless knowledge.
About the Doublebit Press Library of American Outdoors ClassicsSometimes we need to remember our history to move forward. Sometimes, remembering our heritage is just fun or inspirational. With technology playing a major role in everyday life, sometimes we need to take a step back in time to find those basic building blocks used for gaining mastery - the things that we have luckily not completely lost and has been recorded in books over the last two centuries. These skills aren't forgotten, they've just been shelved. It's time to unshelve them once again and reclaim the lost knowledge of self-sufficiency!As a part of the Doublebit Press Library of American Outdoors Classics, this unabridged Legacy Edition volume is reprinted in the exact form as it was presented in the original publication. Both important and minor details have equally both been accounted for by our publishing staff, down to the cover, font, layout, and images. It is the goal of Doublebit Legacy Edition series to preserve outdoors heritage, but also be cherished as collectible pieces, worthy of collection in any outdoorsperson's library and that can be passed to future generations.