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The digrams are simple schetches revealing just enough information to be considered directions when combined with the text. Taber. I agree and can relate with all 17 reviews up until the date I wrote this one, especially Richard B. Most if not all of the information is still useful today and will give a glimpse of the Native American past as it used to be before we had all of our high tech equipment. This book contains some information you will not find anywhere else. I have read numerous outdoor books and there are certainly some things I have seen in other books but there are other unique tidbits, found nowhere else, that are simple yet useful knowledge for any outdoors person. You can get a good idea of the information it contains by looking at the table of contents with the "look inside" feature on amazon. I highly recommend this book to boy & girlscouts, campers, hikers, survivalists, other outdoor enthusiasts and people just interested in the "Wildwood Wisdom" of North American Indians.it is worth every penny.
I bought this book for a Grandson who wants to learn about woodsmanship. Easy to understand information. It's a great book for that purpose. The illustrations are excellent. He reads a portion of daily and enjoys it. Also, it was written prior to the availability higher tech equipment now in use so he can learn the ways "we used to do it".I highly recommend it for young or old who want to learn about this subject.
I have several books on outdoor lore and I was hopeful after having read the previous reviews that this would make a good addition to my library. This book outshines them all. It is very comprehensive and detailed, and a pleasure to read. If you have an interest in outdoor survival I urge you to purchase this book.
You cannot read it without wanting to learn more about the old ways of doing things, and many of the topics written about are still relevant to this day. If I had to pick only five books that I could take with me to live on a desert island, this would be one of them.
Ellsworth Jaeger's book "Wildwood Wisdom" fairly oozed woodlore and old time knowledge of the outdoors. I became enthralled with the lure and lore of the outdoors when I was a kid growing up in the forests of Eastern Connecticut when I first read this book, back in the 1960's.
This book probably influenced me as much as any other book I had ever read to become involved with the woods, nature, and the outdoors. He spoke with knowledge borne of experience and of a lifetime in the outdoors, and especially in the north woods.
This book shows and tells of many of the old time skills that outdoorsmen lived by, long before the invention of gore-tex, polypro, titanium cookware, and gps. I look at it to this day.
Buy it, read it, cherish it, and do not loan it to anyone.
My Senior year of high school,(some thirty years ago) my school librarian stopped me while checking out this book. She smiled with a twinkle in her eye, and handed me my very own copy that she ordered for me. She said that she had noticed that my name had been the only name this book had been loaned to in four years. Every two weeks I had checked it in in the morning, then checked it out over my lunch hour. I still use it constantly.Well, I'm ordering one for each of my Grand kids. I just wish they offered this in hardcover today.
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