Primitive Survival Skills

[Scythe13]

[CharlesHarris]

[bigpaul]

I have an early hardback copy of Horace Kephart's "Camping and Woodcraft"...at one point this was the ONLY book I owned(bedsit days), this guy lived amongst the native Americans and adopted a lot of their ways of doing things.

[I-K-E]

[bigpaul]

sorry IKE, my anti virus programme dosent like that one! you can find it on Amazon, new and used prices, it was originally printed in 1917my copy is 1974 and I think its been reprinted many times since.

[Mortblanc]

[bigpaul]

certainly is a wonderful land.

[Scythe13]

I get where you're coming from with this MB.

I agree that those that dominated had guns, illness, and armour. In no way shape or form am I going to try and romanticise how the NA lived. I admire and respect their 'closeness to nature' but also understand that there are better ways to do it.

I'd rather rip the insulation from a car seat, for keeping me warm, than a load of leaves and debris. But if you can survive how they did, then being able to survive with a greater knowledge base AND their skill set, provides me with that little extra feeling of security.

As for the adventure writers and the alike...although they might not have been nice people by abandoning their families and turning to the bottle, that no less discounts their work, so I agree with you on that. So I'd rather get a different book than Kephart's, because I'm not cool with how he behaved, thanks for the info on that MB. I'm sure the info he wrote was, and still is, very helpful, but I'm not a fan of having the books of a guy like that on my shelf. Possibly biting off my nose to spite my face with that. But as you know (and disagree with my choice) I'm a Tom Brown Jr fan, so will be using many of his books as a basis for skill learning.

I can't really find much on the old fashioned UK Primitive Survival skills side of things. Many will be transferable, so I'm using what resources are close at hand to boost my learning curve.

[bigpaul]

i'm not interested in the life story of ANY author, i am interested in the information that is on the pages of the book, that's why i buy any book, for the information contained within.