Whats your best read...

[wolf_diver]

Love reading bushcraft resourse books like woodsmoke, need some new reads. whats your best recommended books.

Jay

 

[Hoodoo]

Cache Lake Country

 

[Elines]

The Wild Places by Robert Macfarlane

Its about finding 'wild places' - sometimes in unlikely places and is fantastically well written.

As I recall, he uses words I didn't know but somehow it all made sense. May be worth having a dictionary handy if there is something you really must have the exact meaning of. I may be making it sound as if it is heavy going - but it definitely isn't. If I don't enjoy a book I just stop reading it - life's too short to continue reading something you don't enjoy. This is one of the few books I actually remember having read, and might even read again - something I have never done before

 

[Scots_Charles_River]

'A Teacup in a Storm' - nearly read it all. A good summary of a huge range of expeditons from 1600s Nile Source trips thru to more recent trips. Written a very readable way.

Nick

 

[wolf_diver]

What about bushcraft books???

 

[Scots_Charles_River]

It is bushcraft. It's all about the experiences of bushcraft expeditions. Before the high technology days. In africa, oz and europe. Fascinating to read all about it. It seems illness and disease was the main problem in the bush last century early on.

I re-read Scouting for boys recently. A funny but useful read.

Nick

 

[Elines]

If its bushcraft you want - especially on a hot day when you want cooling down - try a short story from Jack London called 'To build a fire' - only about 33 pages but contains an important lesson re fire and fire lighting

 

[stuart f]

Hi Wolf-diver,when you say Woodsmoke do you mean this
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Woodsmoke-C...=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1240957290&sr=1-1

I also have this.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Primitive-S...=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1240957290&sr=1-4

Heres a few more links to some of me favourites.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Survival-Sk...=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1240956140&sr=1-1

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Indian-Fish...r_1_11?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1240956283&sr=1-11

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Primitive-L...=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1240956349&sr=1-1

More of a plant and medicine book
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Botany-Day-...=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1240956349&sr=1-4

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Primitive-W...=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1240956455&sr=1-1
Also i have the dvds based upon this book.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Outdoor-Sur...=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1240957487&sr=1-1

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bushcraft-O...=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1240957530&sr=1-1

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Primitive-T...=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1240957788&sr=1-1

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Primitive-T...=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1240957589&sr=1-1

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Survival-Pr...r_1_10?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1240957906&sr=1-10

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Camping-Woo...=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1240957970&sr=1-1

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Woodcraft-N...=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1240958012&sr=1-1

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Native-Amer...r_1_39?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1240958103&sr=1-39

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Exploring-O...r_1_25?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1240958212&sr=1-25

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Survival-Sk...=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1240958816&sr=1-2

umm is that enough
I have all these and more, as the wife always keeps saying to me"do you really need anymore books?" my answer "of course dear"

Cheers Stuart.

 

[Barn Owl]

Hey Stuart,

Any 'Bird' books you need,gie's a shout.

Hustler etc.. will be posted in brown wrapping..

Seriously though,I've quite a few (hundred).

 

[Chinkapin]

I'm never out in the woods in the snow that I don't think of Jack London's "To Build A Fire," Like Elines above there is just something about it that you will not forget it. Of course, London's classic tale is Call of the Wild. Can't go wrong there either.

The Bradford Angier books about surviving in the woods are classics as well.

 

[wolf_diver]

Cheers Guys some nice ones there, amazon here i come!!!!!