The book of camping and woodcraft : a guidebook for those who travel in the wilderness

MP3 Audio CD. In the introductory part of Camping and Woodcraft, Horace Kephart stated that, ?My one aim in writing this little book is to make it of practical service to those who seek rest or sport in the wilderness, or whose business calls them thither.? The writer moreover defined the inclusions of this book, ?In the following chapters I offer some suggestions on outfitting, making camps, dressing and keeping game and fish, camp cookery, forest travel, how to avoid getting lost, and what to do if one does get lost, living off the country, what the different species of trees are good for (from a camper's viewpoint), backwoods handicrafts in wood, bark, skins and other raw materials, the treatment of wounds and other injuries, and some other branches of woodcraft that may be of service when one is far from shops and from hired help.?

Horace Sowers Kephart was a travel writer and librarian, most popular as the writer of Our Southern Highlanders of his experiences in the Great Smoky Mountains of western North Carolina and the traditional outdoors reference book Camping and Woodcraft.

Horace Sowers Kephart was born in East Salem, Pennsylvania, and grew up in Iowa. He was the director of the St. Louis Mercantile Library in St. Louis, Missouri between the years 1890 and 1903. During these times, Horace also drafted a guide book about camping and shooting jaunts. At an earlier time, Horace was also employed as a librarian at Yale University and spent some considerable time in Italy as a wage earner of a prestigious collector of books in the United States.

He penned of his life experiences in a sequence of articles in the publication Field and Stream. These articles were gathered into his primary guide book, Camping and Woodcraft, which was first released in 1906.