Primitive Outdoor Skills: More Wilderness Techniques from Woodsmoke Journal

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. The 20 chapters include: The Primitive Life Style, Easy-to-Make Stone Tools, Swamp Craft, A Trapper’s Viewpoint, Ancient Steam Pit Cooking, The Arrow, Sagebrush: The Ancient Survival Kit, Bulrush Weaving, Snow Caves—The Easy Way, The Sweat Lodge, The Horno: An Outdoor Oven, 101 Uses of the Snake Bag, and Primitive Comfort: The Hot Draft Bed.

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    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:

    1. The Primitive Life Style
    2. Easy-to-Make Stone Tools
    3. Swamp Craft
    4. A Trapper’s Viewpoint
    5. Ancient Steam Pit Cooking
    6. The Arrow
    7. The Survival Of Purpose
    8. Sagebrush: The Ancient Survival Kit
    9. A Plea to Those Who Would Be Self-Sufficient
    10. Bulrush Weaving
    11. Lost
    12. Snow Caves—The Easy Way
    13. Rings of Stone
    14. The Sweat Lodge
    15. Bounty of the Wildwood
    16. The Horno: An Outdoor Oven
    17. The Digging Stick…and Other Related Things
    18. 101 Uses of the Snake Bag
    19. Field Care Is Important
    20. Primitive Comfort: The Hot Draft Bed

    6″ x 9″ paperback

    142 pages