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Rick said:
this is a can of worms your grasping for Rick, best you do a internet search for the answer.
Yep - sorry for being so cryptic. There's plenty of info on the net and folk can weigh things up and form their own opinions.
Moving to happier things:
I didn't explain Sigurd Olson very well - here's a typical quote:
"I know now as men accept the timeclock of the wilderness, their lives become entirely different. It is one of the great compensations of primitive experience, and when one finally reaches the point where days are governed by daylight and dark, rather than by schedules, where one eats if hungry and sleeps when tired, and becomes completely immersed in the ancient rhythms, then one begins to live." Sig Olson - Reflections of the North Country, 1976.
He is also noted for his death. One winters day he went out in the snow and died suddenly from a heart attack. In his typewriter was a piece of paper. It read 'I'm going on a new adventure, and I'm sure it will be a good one.'
Moving to happier things:
I didn't explain Sigurd Olson very well - here's a typical quote:
"I know now as men accept the timeclock of the wilderness, their lives become entirely different. It is one of the great compensations of primitive experience, and when one finally reaches the point where days are governed by daylight and dark, rather than by schedules, where one eats if hungry and sleeps when tired, and becomes completely immersed in the ancient rhythms, then one begins to live." Sig Olson - Reflections of the North Country, 1976.
He is also noted for his death. One winters day he went out in the snow and died suddenly from a heart attack. In his typewriter was a piece of paper. It read 'I'm going on a new adventure, and I'm sure it will be a good one.'
How about The Directory of Knots by John Shaw? It teaches a hundred or so knots, in categories such as practical knots, traditional knots, innovative knots... Seems like a handy bushcrafting book to me! 
Olson is really a pleasure to read. Here is one of my favorite quotes from
Reflections of the North Country, Tradition, 1976.
I own an old Finnish knife or puukko, the blade made from an old file, the handle and molded case of birch bark. I have carried it for thousands of miles and it has never failed me. The well-tempered steel is hard enough to open a tin and still sharp enough to fillet a fish without needing retouching. Not long ago I dropped it while at Listening Point, and traced and retraced my steps without avail....Since it was early November, the smell of snow was in the air, and we knew if we did not find it then, it would lie outdoors all winter.
"Lets go back once more," Al said before dusk settled down. "We might just be lucky." Back we went.....Then, with a shout of triumph, my young friend ran over and placed the knife in my hand. Before he left, he took a picture of me standing by the cabin turning the knife over and over. Far more than a tool, the knife to me a symbol of the spirit that went into the cabin, the canoe, and all things made by men proud of their work and of what they had learned to do.
Does this quote not explain why a well-used knife always takes a few extra moments before it goes back in the sheath?
Olson is the author of about 10 books and many many articles. A wonderful web site is kept on him by David Backes who is also the author of The Meaning of Wilderness, A Wilderness Within: The Life of Sigurd F Olson and The Spirit of the North...all excellent.
http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/JMC/Olson/
Reflections of the North Country, Tradition, 1976.
I own an old Finnish knife or puukko, the blade made from an old file, the handle and molded case of birch bark. I have carried it for thousands of miles and it has never failed me. The well-tempered steel is hard enough to open a tin and still sharp enough to fillet a fish without needing retouching. Not long ago I dropped it while at Listening Point, and traced and retraced my steps without avail....Since it was early November, the smell of snow was in the air, and we knew if we did not find it then, it would lie outdoors all winter.
"Lets go back once more," Al said before dusk settled down. "We might just be lucky." Back we went.....Then, with a shout of triumph, my young friend ran over and placed the knife in my hand. Before he left, he took a picture of me standing by the cabin turning the knife over and over. Far more than a tool, the knife to me a symbol of the spirit that went into the cabin, the canoe, and all things made by men proud of their work and of what they had learned to do.
Does this quote not explain why a well-used knife always takes a few extra moments before it goes back in the sheath?
Olson is the author of about 10 books and many many articles. A wonderful web site is kept on him by David Backes who is also the author of The Meaning of Wilderness, A Wilderness Within: The Life of Sigurd F Olson and The Spirit of the North...all excellent.
http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/JMC/Olson/
For the totally bloodthirsty "Crow Killer: The Saga of Liver Eating Johnson" by Raymond Thorp & Robert Bunker.
This is an account of the life of American Mountain Man John Johnston (know to some as Jeremiah Johnson (played by Robert Redford in the film)). The accounts were given by some of the few who lived trapped/hunted/ and generally killed 'injuns' alongside him! Researched between the 1920's and late '40s & published in 1958. You can get it on Amazon, or order at your local bookshop. What Tim Nice But Dim would call a "Bl***y Good Read"
The Long Walk by Slavomir Rawicz. His account of escape from a Russian POW / labour camp during WWII and his walk to India to rejoin the Allies
The Last Place on Earth by Roland Huntford. A comparative biography of Roald Amundsen & Capt. Scott. I confess to having had some doubts about Scott's abilities prior to reading this book - which were confirmed. Amundsen, on the contrary, was a (lucky) genius.
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