Recommend me some wilderness books on Kindle :)

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knifefan

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cant recommend but going to follow with interest
These are some I've got!!
The fully illustrated camp life in the woods
Indian Creek Chronicles
Alone in the woods
Canoe Trip
My first summer in the sierra (John Muir - got two others I can't remember at the Moment!!)
A journey to the northern ocean
Lost in the wild
The Trail
US army survival handbook
Woodcraft and Camping
 

mace242

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I have:

Primitave Skills and Crafts
Practicing Primitive
Ultimate Guide to Wilderness Living
Walden
The Wilderness Survival Guide
British Native Trees - Their Past and Present Uses
Deep Survival
Earth Knack

Some more possibly. There is a chunk of fiction on there too. I read a lot.
 

bearbait

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The Art Of Tracking - The Origin Of Science, Liebenberg (pdf from cybertracker.org); also interesting from an anthropological and evolutionary perspective
Camp Life In The Woods, Hamilton
The Book Of Nature Myths, Holbrook
How To Camp Out, Gould
Woodcraft, Kreps
Science Of Trapping, Kreps
Deadfalls And Snares, Harding
Shelters Shack and Shanties, Beard
The Art Of Travel/Shifts and Contrivances Available In Wild Countries, Galton
Woodcraft and Camping, Sears
Knots, Bends and Splices, Jutsum
Knots, Splices and Rope Work, Verrill

Also I have on Pioneering and Exploration:
Explorations in Australia, Stuart
A Tramp's Sketches, Graham
Canoe Mates in Canada, Rathborne
Roughing It In The Bush, Moodie
Life In The Backwoods, Moodie
Fifty Years A Hunter and Trapper, Woodcock
Thirty-One Years on the Plains and in the Mountains, Drannan
Farthest North vols. 1 & 2, Nansen
Snow Shoes and Canoes, Kingston
South: The Story Of Shackleton's 1914-1917 Expedition, Shackelton
The Book Of The Bush, Dunderdale
A Journey From Prince Of Wales's Fort In Hudson Bay, Hearne

And on First Nations/Indigenous Peoples:
Tribal Peoples for Tomorrows World, Corry (had to pay for this but only a couple of quid; I thought it excellent)
Traditions of the North American Indians vols. 1,2 & 3, Jones
Indian Why Stories, Linderman
Villages of the Algonquin, Siouan and Caddoan Tribes West of the Mississippi, Bushnell

I tend to get my books from Project Gutenburg or Amazon, with just occasional ones from elsewhere.

Warning! Not all the above books read yet so quality may vary!
 
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lucan

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Wow Fantastic list of Books there bearbait.

Knifefan I've used the link below quite a lot for some great books, The good thing is they're copyright free and free to download and a vast majority have been converted for Kindle

http://archive.org/details/texts

How to stay alive in the woods- Bradford Angier aint a bad read

Most of the books on there are late 19th early 20 century
 
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Gaudette

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Early the next morning the stage called for us. My companion and I had each a large knapsack as full as it would hold, and we had two large rubber bags which held our provisions and utensils. As for the Indian, all the baggage he had, beside his axe[7] and gun, was a blanket, which he brought loose in his hand. However, he had laid in a store of tobacco and a new pipe for the excursion. The canoe was securely lashed diagonally across the top of the stage, with bits of carpet tucked under the edge to prevent its chafing. The driver appeared as much accustomed to carrying canoes in this way as bandboxes.

Just reading this one from Gutenberg

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/34990/34990-h/34990-h.htm

Its called Canoeing in the Wilderness not sure if its any good but the paragraph above whetted my appetite.
 

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