Book of Camp-Lore and Woodcraft Legacy Edition by Dan Beard

Dan Beard’s classic manual for the campsite and camp life

This deluxe reprint Legacy Edition of “Uncle Dan” Beard’s The Book Of Camp-Lore And Woodcraft is sure to fill the heads of any avid outdoorsperson, camper, or scout with its many ideas! Despite being almost a century old, Uncle Dan’s fun projects for the camp are sure to kill boredom and really put 21st-century campers to the test!

This book includes a bunch of fun ideas that at first glance may look a bit strange, but are certain to make your camp truly a home and help you gain the great skills of the woodsmen and mountaineers of old. 

Illustrated activities in this book including fire-making by friction and percussion, fire lays and cooking, camp cookery and kitchens, packing horses and dogs, packing your backpack for the long haul, saddles, camp gadgets, camp furnishings, choosing camp sites, axe and saw work, council fires and assembly fire grounds, and “reading” the woods.

A part of Dan Beard’s outdoors handy-book collection from the early 1900s, with each book filled with excellent unique ideas, some of which people today have never tried!

A part of the Library of American Outdoors Classics: Volume 9