Beckerhead Camping and Woodcraft Reviews....

just finished reading mine last night - it's the univ of Tennessee Press copy of the 1917 version that was done in 1988 and reprinted in 2017.
vol 1 is 405 pages and vol 2 is 479.
I also have a copy of the 2017 Skyhorse publishing photocopy of the 1906 version - 331 pages -- I haven't started that one yet. (to see what the differences are)
 
A follow up to my earlier post.

I contacted the folks at the Great Smokey Mt Association, spoke to several people there, and they said that yes, the hardback book is identical to the softback version in content.
Everyone seems to really like the new edition.

They also said the hardback version of Our Southern Highlanders is out of print, but they are looking for a copy for me at their warehouse.
I guess this newer third edition version is also updated and has several more articles never published in earlier editions, etc.

I have ordered the DVD as well.

Will let you know how things turn out.
Brome
 
Wapiti said:
So here is a question you all may be able to help me (or others) with.

I have had the Univ of Tennessee Press edition (912 pp) of Kehphart's CAW book several years. I believe it is a reprint of the 1917 edition with both books in one.

https://www.amazon.com/Camping-Wood...WS9T4EFXZGX&psc=1&refRID=WM5YX8AQZWS9T4EFXZGX

I have always enjoyed it as it is a facsimile of the older one (although I would like to see what is different in the 1910 version).

But I want to purchase a newer edition.

I really like that the edition by the Smokey Mt Assoc., is updated with additional information, drawings and photos, new type setting, and the forward.

Does anyone know if the hardback edition, the one Captain Airyca posted a pic of, is the same as the paperback one? (oddly the amazslong website lists this hardback as only having 425 pages, while reviews of the paperback list it as having about 888 pages...)

I really like the online images, reviews of the paperback book's content, but if the hardback is the same book, I will spring for the hardback.

Thanks,
Brome
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Looks like you found your answer, but yes the hardback is the same as the paperback. It looks like amazon is incorrect with the page count. The ISBN's below are the Smokey Mountains version. Mine says that it was originally published in 1916&1917. What's nice, is that it has in the introduction, a section about the different versions of the book if you're curious. Very interesting stuff.
ISBN-10: 0937207713
ISBN-13: 978-0937207710
Link: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0937207713/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i1
It's out of stock regularly but it does restock.

Wapiti said:
A follow up to my earlier post.

I contacted the folks at the Great Smokey Mt Association, spoke to several people there, and they said that yes, the hardback book is identical to the softback version in content.
Everyone seems to really like the new edition.

They also said the hardback version of Our Southern Highlanders is out of print, but they are looking for a copy for me at their warehouse.
I guess this newer third edition version is also updated and has several more articles never published in earlier editions, etc.

I have ordered the DVD as well.

Will let you know how things turn out.
Brome
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Awesome!!


So far, I've only compared the "sheath knife" sections between the 1906 and the 1917 versions and they are quite different. It's pretty interesting. You can read the 1906 one online if you want to get the 1917 version. https://archive.org/details/bookofcampingwoo00keph/page/n8
 
Thanks for the responses.

Captain, thank you for the link to the 1906 version.
I will enjoy reading/perusing this older edition.

Love looking at those old photographs.
My 1917 facsimile has no photographs at all.
Anyone find a reference to who took the photos? It is possible he did it himself, but seems unlikely.

Yes the knife discussed in the 1906 version, much more descriptively than my 1917 facsimile, sure sounds like the knife we know.


They were able to find a copy of the hardback Southern Highlanders, so all three are in the mail.

Brome
 
The Warrior said:
"In the school of the woods there is no graduation day." Horace Kephart

Can't say it any better than that. I'm not in the woods near as much as I should be. A little more difficult, as I live in the great plains of Illinois. Just patches of woods around here. I spend more time in the woods living vicariously through other's experiences via the internet.

That said, when I do go, I don't necessarily go into the woods to learn something purposefully. To me, there's nothing like a trip into the woods to soothe the soul. There's nothing more relaxing than getting away from the worries and struggles of everyday life, feeling the wind in your face, hearing the birds sing, the coyotes howl, crickets chirping, the smell of the wet leaves on the forest floor, river rushing, etc. We forget how to get away from the fevered hassles of life, and get back to what's important...the basics. When you expose yourself to the basics, it brings into being one of the most incalculable of God's creations, the mind. I'm always reminded of how very little we actually need when not restrained by social convention or usage, and the mind has been relieved of what we "normally" estimate as being important. There's much wisdom in silence and solitude.

As someone who is very much an introvert, I'm a very curious, and observant person by nature. So it's hard not to learn something. I may not even know that I did at the time, but upon reflection at a later date.

Speaking of reflection, I was just thinking how things transpire from time to time...

I was worried about the world situation several years back, and was wanting to assemble a bug out bag. I Googled "survival knives", and the Becker BK2 kept coming up. I ended up purchasing it, and that led me to this forum. That lead me to becoming a Beckerhead, and becoming acquainted with Ethan Becker. Then that led me to other outdoorsy, and bushcraft type forums. I heard of the names Horace Kephart and George Sears for the first time. I had a newfound appreciation for the great outdoors. I was soaking up so much outdoor knowledge that even light itself couldn't escape the intense gravitational field that was forming in the Black hole of my brain. I was quickly becoming one of the most unequaled armchair bushcrafters known in exsistence, unparalleled in all human history. But knowing is one thing, and applying what you know is another. I wanted more than that, and started doing outings into the woods...

I've never owned the book Camping and Woodcraft by Horace Kephart, but have had the .pdf of the 1906 version for some time now. Have always had good intentions of perusing it to completeness, but have never made the attempt. I've seen snippets, and quotes from it, but have never read it. I think it's time...

Isn't it funny how wanting a survival knife led me to Ethan Becker and his BK2, and that led to the discovery of Horace Kephart, which led back to Ethan acquiring a Colclesser Brothers made Kephart, which led to Ethan releasing a Kephart, based off the original, that led Ethan to start a thread about Horace Kephart, that led me to write all this, that made me think about the school of the woods again?

Still working on my diploma...

Dubz
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Warrior,

Very well written and expressed. I believe in a lot of what you said here. Thank you the link to your post and this thread that you put in my Cornteen post. Kindered Spirits
 
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