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Today...just started it, seems like it's going to be a good read. Try to get it back to you as soon as I'm finished. Thanks.
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Hey Kismet Got the Nessmuk Woodcraft book
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Would that book be Kephart's Camping and Woodcraft?
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Hollowdweller?
Hang on to it, read it, put it down, read parts again, put it down, read parts again...then close your eyes and try and picture a world gone by...idealized, perhaps, but lovely and open.
Less is more.
Take your time sending it back, if it all.
Brian?
No. This is Nessmuk's (George Sears) book, Woodcraft and Camping, published (I think) by Dover Press, available on eBay and Amazon, etc.
Smallish book with Woodcraft from the late 19th, early 20th century. A lot drawn from articles he wrote while working for Forest and Stream magazine. (I'll look for a site for you).
I think Kephart dedicated his books to Sears, or at least made reference to him/them.
He's one reason I got directed to H.I. Khuks. I was investigating the double-bit axe he talked about in the bladeforum axe section and Cliff Stamp sent me here.
Nessmuk was focused on utility rather than flash, even so far back as his own time. He minimized weight, packing, even canoe design--in part because he was a diminuitive man (5'2" or so), with some years on him, and in part because it just made sense to make do with what was available, rather than truck a bunch of stuff in.
If you want, I'll ask Hollowdweller to send it on to you, then eventually, you can send it to me.
http://members.tripod.com/~nessmuk/neswrite.html
Kis
Hang on to it, read it, put it down, read parts again, put it down, read parts again...then close your eyes and try and picture a world gone by...idealized, perhaps, but lovely and open.
Less is more.
Take your time sending it back, if it all.
Brian?
No. This is Nessmuk's (George Sears) book, Woodcraft and Camping, published (I think) by Dover Press, available on eBay and Amazon, etc.
Smallish book with Woodcraft from the late 19th, early 20th century. A lot drawn from articles he wrote while working for Forest and Stream magazine. (I'll look for a site for you).
I think Kephart dedicated his books to Sears, or at least made reference to him/them.
He's one reason I got directed to H.I. Khuks. I was investigating the double-bit axe he talked about in the bladeforum axe section and Cliff Stamp sent me here.
Nessmuk was focused on utility rather than flash, even so far back as his own time. He minimized weight, packing, even canoe design--in part because he was a diminuitive man (5'2" or so), with some years on him, and in part because it just made sense to make do with what was available, rather than truck a bunch of stuff in.
If you want, I'll ask Hollowdweller to send it on to you, then eventually, you can send it to me.
http://members.tripod.com/~nessmuk/neswrite.html
Kis
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That would be great. I'll put my 1970 vintage copy of C & WC into the pass around. 
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Thank you Brian. I have Kephardt's book, but others would enjoy it, I'd imagine.
As for Nessmuk's...arrange with Hollowdweller to get him to send it on to you, and if others are interested, keep it passing along.
Books are wonderful connections...from one to another...from one world to another. To me, a book transports in a way that reading text from a screen cannot approach--part of it is tactile, but...there's an intimacy with a book that computers can't ever approach.
Hope you enjoy it.
Kis
As for Nessmuk's...arrange with Hollowdweller to get him to send it on to you, and if others are interested, keep it passing along.
Books are wonderful connections...from one to another...from one world to another. To me, a book transports in a way that reading text from a screen cannot approach--part of it is tactile, but...there's an intimacy with a book that computers can't ever approach.
Hope you enjoy it.
Kis
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Interesting how many of his suggestions we use while backpacking. Sleeping under a tarp, drinking tea.
My wife and I were laughing this morning over the story about the guys looking for the axe and bottle of whiskey after floods had put dirt over them.
There's a lot of humor in the book. I like that. Also it is written in the older more beautiful style of writing. One of my favorite books is Pleasant Valley, a collection of stories about his farm and the history of the area it was in by Louis Bromfield. He writes in that older style also. He also was a nature lover and early conservationist. His farm Malabar Farm is now a state park in OH>
My wife and I were laughing this morning over the story about the guys looking for the axe and bottle of whiskey after floods had put dirt over them.
There's a lot of humor in the book. I like that. Also it is written in the older more beautiful style of writing. One of my favorite books is Pleasant Valley, a collection of stories about his farm and the history of the area it was in by Louis Bromfield. He writes in that older style also. He also was a nature lover and early conservationist. His farm Malabar Farm is now a state park in OH>