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Primitive Skills and Crafts: An Outdoorsman's Guide to Shelters, Tools, Weapons, Tracking, Survival, and More [NOOK Book]
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Anonymous
Posted October 5, 2010
This book would be better served if it was titled "Basket Weaving and One or Two Other Things." It's easy to see the passions of the authors is not so much survival skills or any other craft save basket making. There are several chapters on making different baskets with plenty of images. Yet they only briefly touch on subjects such as traps and fire starting and display truly inferior images as if these subjects are so easy to perform that no additional images are needed. If you want to weave baskets, this is the book for you!
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Overview
Anyone eager to master survival skills for outdoor vacations, or simply to find a fun new family activity for a Saturday afternoon, will be educated and inspired by the practical advice presented here by archaeologists, anthropologists, primitive practitioners, craftsmen, and artisans. These experts help modern readers rediscover the skills that have served humanity for millennia: fire-making, camp cooking, basket weaving, pottery making, animal tracking, and much more. You can even learn how to turn seashells into arrowheads or make glue from yucca plants. Plus, there's intriguing information on the benefits of a hunter-gatherer diet. More than just a how-to, this handbook provides inspiration to live life to the ...