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Chas & Dan thanks for your replies. Would you say that it was a bushcraft or survival book or more of a camping book? I have some "survival " books where their idea of a survival kit is a rucksack full with tent, sleeping bag, food and propane stove! If someone could post the Table of...

I'm in Oz and it isn't listed in any library in the country according to the Trove database. Since Ray doesn't have the public profile here that he does in the UK I doubt that I'll find it in any physical bookshop either. Hence my asking for opinions before spending my hard-earned $. Re...

Has anyone read this book? Amazon doesn't have any preview or reviews so it's not obvious whether it's a bushcraft book or just about camping. Any opinions? I'm assuming it's a translation from a Swedish language original, so comments from anyone who's read the Swedish version are...

If you have this book what's your opinion of it? Is it a practical bushcraft/survival book in the mode of Ray's Bushcraft or Essential Bushcraft books or more on the lines of his Northern Wilderness book - pretty pictures but not a lot of advice that you could put into practice if you...

New - one of the 111cm size SAKs from Victorinox https://www.swissknifeshop.com/products/swiss-army-one-hand-trekker-german-army Used - a GAK : the knife that the German Army used to issue to the troops before they went to the Victorinox lockknife eg...

Summary of the American Frontiersman article here: http://masterwoodsman.com/2015/mors-kochanski-american-frontiersman/ Includes links to videos of Mors

I think the book you're looking for is "As far as my feet will carry me" by Joseph Martin Bauer. From Wikipedia: "about German World War II prisoner of war Clemens Forell's escape from a Siberian Gulag in Soviet Union back to Germany"