Everything the camper could wish for in the line of practical suggestions on outfitting, making camps, dressing and keeping game and fish, camp cooking, 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 the camper’s viewpoint, backwoods handicrafts in wood, bark, skins and other raw materials, the treatment of wounds and other injuries, etc., can be found in this little volume. There are many illustrations from photographs.
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 11. Ja. ’07. |
“Mr. Kephart buttonholes you gently, fixes you with his woodman’s eye, and if you can escape the longing to start for the wilderness at the first vacation moment you must be an unusual man.”
| + | Ind. 62: 566. Mr. 7, ’07. 160w. | |
| + | Nation. 84: 222. Mr. 7, ’07. 40w. |
“Should be the friend of every intending sojourner in the wilderness.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 410. Je. 22, ’07. 140w. |
“The volume is small enough to go in the duffel-bag, but packed full of the facts and suggestions, and redolent of the atmosphere of the woods.”
| + + | Outlook. 86: 38. My. 4, ’07. 210w. |
Ker, William Paton. Sturla, the historian. *35c. Oxford.