Thanks for all the books, it is good to get some blokes ideas as I would not have gone for many of these, but I think t'other half will.
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Bushcrafty books that also tell a gripping story........?
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I've just got a Kindle myself. The first book I downloaded was Woodcraft and camping by George Washington Sears. Also known as Nessmuk. It is a free download (but doesn't have the woodcuts in it). Ishi in two worlds by Theodora Kroeber is the true story of the last stoneage indian in the USA who was discovered in 1910.
although aimed at a younger audience the "ancient darknes" series by michelle paver are well worth a read, basically a series of stories about a teenager/young man growing up in stonge age britain. packed full of bushcraft from start to finish.
the lord of the rings trilogy contains some great bits of bushcraft too, just a shame that you have to wade through a couple of hundred pages of nothing but hobbits walking to find the good snippets.
another vote for robinson crusoe here too
stuart
the lord of the rings trilogy contains some great bits of bushcraft too, just a shame that you have to wade through a couple of hundred pages of nothing but hobbits walking to find the good snippets.
another vote for robinson crusoe here too
stuart
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/30197 Nansens epic story
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5199 South: the story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 expedition
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34607 Woodcraft and Camping by George Washington Sears
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/521 Robinson Crusoe
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/29543 Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail by Howard R. Driggs and Ezra Meeker
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8419 The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/345 Dracula
That should start him off nicely and cost nowt. Look through that site, its fantastic.
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5199 South: the story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 expedition
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34607 Woodcraft and Camping by George Washington Sears
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/521 Robinson Crusoe
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/29543 Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail by Howard R. Driggs and Ezra Meeker
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8419 The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/345 Dracula
That should start him off nicely and cost nowt. Look through that site, its fantastic.
im just about to read the long walk
not really bushcrafty but joe simpsons books are ace. this games of ghost is excellent
not really bushcrafty but joe simpsons books are ace. this games of ghost is excellent
I read Big Red by Kjelgaard as I have a setter, then I went on to buy £50 out of print books by him - 1950s kids adevnture books and they do one for kindle. Great fun.
I'm also enjoying Olson books lately (again) and I heartily recommend Three against the wilderness by Eric Collier, a man who reintroduced Beaver to an eco system in Canada whilst building a log cabin etc.
Dangerous River by Robert Patterson is sublime in terms of pure adventure and Bushcraft and I thoroughly enjoyed Indian Creek Chronicles by Pete Fromm.
I recently lent all of the aboce to one of my GCSE age pupils who read them to help his English - or so he told me. He keeps asking for more books of this ilk.
Oh, and Eastern Approaches by Fitzroy Maclean - favourite line 'The Meschersmitts run left me in the Desert, alone with a tea spoon and an automatic pistol; not the happiest of times.' Good old British Adventure.
I'm also enjoying Olson books lately (again) and I heartily recommend Three against the wilderness by Eric Collier, a man who reintroduced Beaver to an eco system in Canada whilst building a log cabin etc.
Dangerous River by Robert Patterson is sublime in terms of pure adventure and Bushcraft and I thoroughly enjoyed Indian Creek Chronicles by Pete Fromm.
I recently lent all of the aboce to one of my GCSE age pupils who read them to help his English - or so he told me. He keeps asking for more books of this ilk.
Oh, and Eastern Approaches by Fitzroy Maclean - favourite line 'The Meschersmitts run left me in the Desert, alone with a tea spoon and an automatic pistol; not the happiest of times.' Good old British Adventure.
The Year Long Day
By A E Maxwell and Ivan Rudd
Brilliant book about an Arctic trapper and his year spent in his cabin throughout the year, some really funny bits in it, true story as well and a real easy read,
Made me want to head to the Arctic, get myself a cabin and settle in for the year.
Cant recommend this book highly enough..... Hard to get hold of as its from the 70's
By A E Maxwell and Ivan Rudd
Brilliant book about an Arctic trapper and his year spent in his cabin throughout the year, some really funny bits in it, true story as well and a real easy read,
Made me want to head to the Arctic, get myself a cabin and settle in for the year.
Cant recommend this book highly enough..... Hard to get hold of as its from the 70's
It's real boy's own adventure bushcraft - a cracking read. I've managed to lose two paper copies so the e-book was a must. I must have a look at Louis L'Amour's other books but they generally seem to be pulp westerns? Hopefully there's another in the same vein amongst them. For those who've not read it, it's about an American Indian pilot kidnapped by the Russians during the cold war who escapes a camp in Siberia and tries to make it across Siberia to the Bearing Straight, all whilst relying on native american bushcraft skills.
The First Blood novel is pretty good as well, different to the film (no HH Survival knife etc). I gather they filmed a book type ending but audiences didn't like it - I keep hoping for a release of the alternate ending on dvd but have never seen it.
The White Headhunter by Nigel Randell is also an excellent real life story:
"In 1868, Jack Renton, a teenage Scots sailor, was shanghaied in San Francisco. In 1876, he was rescued from captivity on the Pacific island of Malaita, home to a fearsome tribe of headhunters. After the rescue, in a sensational best-selling memoir, Renton recounted his eight-year adventure: how he jumped ship and drifted two thousand miles in an open whaleboat to the Solomon Islands, came ashore at Malaita, was stripped of his clothes, possessions and his very identity, but lived to serve the island’s tribal chief Kabou eventually as his most trusted adviser. For all the authenticity and riveting detail, however, it turns out that Renton’s chronicle glossed over key events that made him the man that Kabou said he loved, "as my first-born son." Mining the oral history passed down in detail from generations of Malaitans, documentary filmmaker Nigel Randell spent seven years piecing together a more complete and grislier account of Renton’s experience—as a man forced to assimilate in order to survive. While The White Headhunter is the story of a man transformed by an island, it is also the story of a man who transformed the island as he prepared it for the onslaught of Western civilization."
Mark
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mark wood;911833]It's real boy's own adventure bushcraft - a cracking read. I've managed to lose two paper copies so the e-book was a must. I must have a look at Louis L'Amour's other books but they generally seem to be pulp westerns? Hopefully there's another in the same vein amongst them...
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His Westerns were by far his most popular but he was actually quite a prolific writer (and a voracious reader) His early career consisted of short stories (there was one fictional account of Benedict Arnold's exile in England after the revolution) He wrote adventure (fictional) stories based on his travels as a merchant seaman before WWII among others. Perhaps one of his better works was his autobiography (The Education of a Wandering Man) detailing his experiences during the Great depression.
mark wood;911833]It's real boy's own adventure bushcraft - a cracking read. I've managed to lose two paper copies so the e-book was a must. I must have a look at Louis L'Amour's other books but they generally seem to be pulp westerns? Hopefully there's another in the same vein amongst them...
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His Westerns were by far his most popular but he was actually quite a prolific writer (and a voracious reader) His early career consisted of short stories (there was one fictional account of Benedict Arnold's exile in England after the revolution) He wrote adventure (fictional) stories based on his travels as a merchant seaman before WWII among others. Perhaps one of his better works was his autobiography (The Education of a Wandering Man) detailing his experiences during the Great depression.
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The alternative ending was available on one of the DVD releases, not quite the same one as described in the book but with the same outcome.
Spoiler Alert! Don't watch this if you have never read the book or watched the movie.
[video=youtube;cg7wy4X0Y8c]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cg7wy4X0Y8c[/video]
If you want story about solitude, survival, philosophy and a little insanity, try reading The Long Way by Bernard Moitessier.
If you want a really good yarn that takes place in the UK and up in the Arctic, have a read of ICE! by Tristan Jones. No one could fail to enjoy that book.
Neither of these are buchcrafty as such, but do tell a good tale and have similar outlooks and adventures.
If you want a really good yarn that takes place in the UK and up in the Arctic, have a read of ICE! by Tristan Jones. No one could fail to enjoy that book.
Neither of these are buchcrafty as such, but do tell a good tale and have similar outlooks and adventures.
forestwalker
Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
George Adamssons biographies (both of them, but I like "Bwana Game" better for the bush aspect)
Helge Ingstad; "The Land of Feast and Famine" and "Nunamiut"
Harry Macfie; "Wasa-Wasa"
Helge Ingstad; "The Land of Feast and Famine" and "Nunamiut"
Harry Macfie; "Wasa-Wasa"
I like Stephen King's 'The Girl Who loved Tom Gordon', also an older story by Algernon Blackwood 'The Wendigo'. Here:http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10897. The Wendigo is very bushcrafty-portages, birchbark canoe, wilderness all around...but it is a supernatural tale, as is King's.
Enjoy if you like a fright while all alone in the woods!
Enjoy if you like a fright while all alone in the woods!
Biker
Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
I'm glad this thread got bumped back up again. It reminded me to highly recommend a book called Survival by Martyn Forrester (ISBN 0-7221-3588-2)
Littered with pratical advice about how to do such a such but interspaced withsome very gripping and well written accounts of people put through some harrowing experiences of personal survival... which obviously includes a lot of Bushcraft orientated stuff. Sadly the book isn't illustrated but the author wirtes so clearly it really doesn't need them.
Just found it on Amazon at this URL http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-listing/0722135882/ref=sr_1_1_olp?ie=UTF8&qid=1309066743&sr=8-1&condition=used
Can't rate this books highly enough as a unputdownable read. It's what got me started off down this path all those years ago. Lofty Wiseman's book just reinforced it.
Littered with pratical advice about how to do such a such but interspaced withsome very gripping and well written accounts of people put through some harrowing experiences of personal survival... which obviously includes a lot of Bushcraft orientated stuff. Sadly the book isn't illustrated but the author wirtes so clearly it really doesn't need them.
Just found it on Amazon at this URL http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-listing/0722135882/ref=sr_1_1_olp?ie=UTF8&qid=1309066743&sr=8-1&condition=used
Can't rate this books highly enough as a unputdownable read. It's what got me started off down this path all those years ago. Lofty Wiseman's book just reinforced it.
some nice book recomendations here, but don't forget samuel hearne's book "A Journey to the Northern Ocean" also if you don't mind I'll add two argentine books. that describe somewhat the gauchos lifestyle "Martin Fierro" and "Don Segundo Sombra" . I am sure you can find the first one in english but i don't know about the second.
Esteban
Esteban
A book I'm immensely enjoying at the moment is 'Three in Norway (by two of them)'
First published in 1882, the book tells, in an engaging humorous and deadpan style, the adventures of three friends who set out to fish and shoot through one long summer, travelling by canoe and camping along the way in Jotunheimen, a mountainous area. This amusing party make light of the rigours of outdoor life in Norway and enjoy every minute of their idyllic tour. Pristine lakes full of large eager trout, which have never seen an artificial fly, heather hills rich with ptarmigan and reindeer, the sturdy characters among the Norwegian country folk they encounter, all are described with a freshness and verve which are irresistible. A typical sentence from the book: "It continued raining in a nice keep-at-it-all-day-if-you-like kind of manner, so we resided in the tent and read, and indulged in whisky and water for lunch to counteract any ill effects of the reading – for some it was poetry."
(from wikipedia)
The best bit is it can be downloaded for free (in pdf format) here
http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=92469
Great for you smartphone and commuting!
First published in 1882, the book tells, in an engaging humorous and deadpan style, the adventures of three friends who set out to fish and shoot through one long summer, travelling by canoe and camping along the way in Jotunheimen, a mountainous area. This amusing party make light of the rigours of outdoor life in Norway and enjoy every minute of their idyllic tour. Pristine lakes full of large eager trout, which have never seen an artificial fly, heather hills rich with ptarmigan and reindeer, the sturdy characters among the Norwegian country folk they encounter, all are described with a freshness and verve which are irresistible. A typical sentence from the book: "It continued raining in a nice keep-at-it-all-day-if-you-like kind of manner, so we resided in the tent and read, and indulged in whisky and water for lunch to counteract any ill effects of the reading – for some it was poetry."
(from wikipedia)
The best bit is it can be downloaded for free (in pdf format) here
http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=92469
Great for you smartphone and commuting!
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