Description
by Richard L. Jamison
Primitive Outdoor Skills is a perfect handbook for anyone wanting to live a little closer to nature. The skills in this book are both practical and fun—they represent a relaxing hobby and potentially life-saving knowledge for wilderness or disaster survival. Written by nationally acclaimed experts, this handbook comprises a broad selection of field-tested skills, presented in easy-to-follow instructions that will help both the novice and the experienced outdoorsman master the techniques of outdoor survival. You can learn the techniques of primitive cooking, surviving in a winter storm, building a bulrush boat, and making sandals out of sagebrush. As you read, you will learn to appreciate the goals of the authors—preserving the craftsmanship of aboriginal skills and restoring primeval nature as a basic source of happiness and serenity.
Chapters include:
- The Primitive Life Style
- Easy-to-Make Stone Tools
- Swamp Craft
- A Trapper’s Viewpoint
- Ancient Steam Pit Cooking
- The Arrow
- The Survival Of Purpose
- Sagebrush: The Ancient Survival Kit
- A Plea to Those Who Would Be Self-Sufficient
- Bulrush Weaving
- Lost
- Snow Caves—The Easy Way
- Rings of Stone
- The Sweat Lodge
- Bounty of the Wildwood
- The Horno: An Outdoor Oven
- The Digging Stick…and Other Related Things
- 101 Uses of the Snake Bag
- Field Care Is Important
- Primitive Comfort: The Hot Draft Bed
6″ x 9″ paperback
142 pages