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YES YES YES YES! A WONDERFULLY WRITTEN BOOK!
A question for all you Lewis & Clark scholars:
Did Lewis commit suicide or was he murdered?
I say MURDER
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A Few New Wilderness Books
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YES YES YES YES! A WONDERFULLY WRITTEN BOOK!
A question for all you Lewis & Clark scholars:
Did Lewis commit suicide or was he murdered?
I say MURDER
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Well, the first round of books got delivered today.
I ordered 'My Side Of The Mountain Trilogy', 'Cache Lake Country', and 'Lost On A Mountain In Maine'
With the 'Lost On A Mountain In Maine' book, I will give to my soon-to-be 10 year old boy.
His birthday is next weekend and ill be giving him that book along with one of John's E01 Hunters.
This will be my boys first REAL knife and I thought it only proper to include a wilderness/survival book to go along with the first class knife.
I even printed out an 11 page questionnaire that follows the book, and im going to let him answer the questions as he reads through it.
The next list of books ill order is as follows:
Undaunted Courage
The Road
Lord Grizzly
Endurance: Shackleton's Voyage
Thanks everyone for all the recommendations and ideas!!
I ordered 'My Side Of The Mountain Trilogy', 'Cache Lake Country', and 'Lost On A Mountain In Maine'
With the 'Lost On A Mountain In Maine' book, I will give to my soon-to-be 10 year old boy.
His birthday is next weekend and ill be giving him that book along with one of John's E01 Hunters.
This will be my boys first REAL knife and I thought it only proper to include a wilderness/survival book to go along with the first class knife.
I even printed out an 11 page questionnaire that follows the book, and im going to let him answer the questions as he reads through it.
The next list of books ill order is as follows:
Undaunted Courage
The Road
Lord Grizzly
Endurance: Shackleton's Voyage
Thanks everyone for all the recommendations and ideas!!
RayseM
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Happy Birthday to your son. Great gifts for a lifetime. Enjoy the reads.
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Bringing this thread back up for a little update.
I purchased 'Lost On A Mountain In Maine' for my 10 year olds birthday last year. (Sep. 10)
I included a little packet for him to fill out while reading the book on the grounds that if he finished the packet I would give him $25.
Well, he wasn't interested in the book for quite awhile, so I ended up giving the book and packet again as a Christmas gift just to mess with him.
Again, he wasn't interested because of all the other gifts he received.
Just recently hes been asking for money to buy a new game for his xbox. I told him, 'I got $25 for you when you read that book and answer some questions.'
He said, 'OH YEAH! Thanks dad!'
He worked on that book all weekend last week and filled out every page of the packet. Im pretty proud of how well he did, and it really opened his eyes to how hard the outdoors can be if your not prepared.
That was the lesson all along, to get him to think about clothing, food, and gear any time your away from the house, and not to panic if your ever lost.
Anyway, I just thought yall might like to hear about a boy gaining a little bit of outdoors knowledge and filling his wallet all at the same time.
Im a pretty proud papa.
\/\/ Check out his first answer on what preparations Donn could have made before his hike \/\/
I purchased 'Lost On A Mountain In Maine' for my 10 year olds birthday last year. (Sep. 10)
I included a little packet for him to fill out while reading the book on the grounds that if he finished the packet I would give him $25.
Well, he wasn't interested in the book for quite awhile, so I ended up giving the book and packet again as a Christmas gift just to mess with him.
Again, he wasn't interested because of all the other gifts he received.
Just recently hes been asking for money to buy a new game for his xbox. I told him, 'I got $25 for you when you read that book and answer some questions.'
He said, 'OH YEAH! Thanks dad!'
He worked on that book all weekend last week and filled out every page of the packet. Im pretty proud of how well he did, and it really opened his eyes to how hard the outdoors can be if your not prepared.
That was the lesson all along, to get him to think about clothing, food, and gear any time your away from the house, and not to panic if your ever lost.
Anyway, I just thought yall might like to hear about a boy gaining a little bit of outdoors knowledge and filling his wallet all at the same time.
Im a pretty proud papa.
\/\/ Check out his first answer on what preparations Donn could have made before his hike \/\/
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Well, unfortunatley ive only read The Revanent so far. By now im sure everyone has heard that it was adapted into a movie.
I thought that book was great. I often think about the frontier days in a romantic sense and sometimes wish I could go back to those days, but in reality that was probably the hardest times in American history.
When you think of just the amount of wildlife and predaters that were around back then, its downright scary.
Not to mention hostile indians that were far more familiar with the land.
Its crazy how far technology has come and how much things have changed in just a few 100 years.
I thought that book was great. I often think about the frontier days in a romantic sense and sometimes wish I could go back to those days, but in reality that was probably the hardest times in American history.
When you think of just the amount of wildlife and predaters that were around back then, its downright scary.
Not to mention hostile indians that were far more familiar with the land.
Its crazy how far technology has come and how much things have changed in just a few 100 years.
