On the recommendation of a Swedish friend I recently read Paasilinna's excellent novel The Year of the Hare. The books protagonist, Vatanen, turns his back on his old life, wife and job and heads off into the Finnish woods on a year long journey after he accidently hits a young hare on a country road one night.
Nursing the hare back to health he works as a forester and odd-job man, travelling northwards towards the arctic circle. The book has a lot of things that the "bushcrafter" would enjoy - including tips on getting cows out of bogs, keeping ravens from eating your spam and how to track a bear accross the Russian border! Although the section on getting drunk in forest fires does seem to pander to national stereotypes.
English translation for £8.99. Recommended.
Nursing the hare back to health he works as a forester and odd-job man, travelling northwards towards the arctic circle. The book has a lot of things that the "bushcrafter" would enjoy - including tips on getting cows out of bogs, keeping ravens from eating your spam and how to track a bear accross the Russian border! Although the section on getting drunk in forest fires does seem to pander to national stereotypes.
English translation for £8.99. Recommended.