Shelters, Shacks, and Shanties: The Classic Guide to Building Wilderness Shelters

Anyone ever read this book? I love this book. I would have to say this is the book that introduced me to survival and bushcraft.

I first read the book in third grade, after finding it in the elementary school library. I think I was the only one that checked the book out, and did so repeatedly until I entered 7th grade. This book is awesome! It's filled with illustrations for how to build various shelters from primitive, underground, to lodge style log cabins!

It's not step-by-step, of course, but it's super well thought out. If you can survive in the wild, you can understand this book.

Bonus info: The author of this book is the co-founder of the Boy Scouts of America, so you know it was well thought out!

I had completely forgotten about this book after a few decades of other things to worry about, and only recently ran across it again on the Internet, in a bit of serendipity. Needless to say, I went and bought a copy for myself, and now own something I treasured as a child!

You guys gotta check this book out if you've never heard of it!

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0486437477/?tag=survivalmonke-20

 

Here is a copy of what I assume is D.C. Beard's original 1914 version? But, I don't recall it having any images, like the version on Amazon apparently does? Click HERE to download a copy of the eBook.

 

WOW even print back in the day was small that whole download was less than 500KB thanks I will read it as soon as I get an odd few minutes.

 

https://www.ncacbsa.org/zekiah/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2015/11/Shelters-Shacks-and-Shanties.pdf

 

Thats the book right there! Its really worth it to have a hard copy on the shelf.

 

see also

The encyclopedia of country living : an old fashioned recipe book / by Carla Emery : illustrated by Cindy Davis and David Berger.—895p

http://www.housegate.net/woodvival/manualistica/The Encyclopedia of Country Living.pdf

Full text of "Carla Emery The Encyclopedia Of Country Living"

 

Here's a few books...

 

gone,gone,gone

 

Oh, we love books!

 

These four books are going to help out tremendously for my future plans!

 

Funny as all get out chapter 5 I think it's page 18 title, "
Pg 18
Chapter V
HOW TO MAKE BEAVER MAT HUTS OR FAGOT SHACKS WITHOUT INJURY TO THE TREES