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Greetings, all. One of the survival subjects that really turn my crank is primitive traps and trapping. How a few sticks and/or a bit of cordage can keep you from going hungry, truly fascinates me.
At times, I have gone to great lengths to secure no-longer-published material on this subject, because most of it that's readily available is just the much regurgitated traps that probably originated in some military manual from the civil war or earlier.
Because of this, I became quite excited when I heard of a new book on the subject, being published, first of all because it deals with primitive traps, and secondly, because it is authored BY A FELLOW FORUM MEMBER - COOTE!
In case you don't know, Coote published an earlier book called Ancient Skills, an introduction to primitive skills/wilderness survival. It holds a favoured position in my library.
Another exciting component of the new book, is it's available as an ebook, which is excellent for those that use ebook readers to store survival information, not to mention it's considerably cheaper than a hard copy.
I'm not going to do a review on the book because I only just started on it and I'm not particularly good at that kind of thing, anyway.
For those of you that's interested, it can be found here.
Nice looking cover, btw, Mr. Coote. I tried to post a picture, but Photobucket really seems screwed up anymore.
Doc
At times, I have gone to great lengths to secure no-longer-published material on this subject, because most of it that's readily available is just the much regurgitated traps that probably originated in some military manual from the civil war or earlier.
Because of this, I became quite excited when I heard of a new book on the subject, being published, first of all because it deals with primitive traps, and secondly, because it is authored BY A FELLOW FORUM MEMBER - COOTE!
In case you don't know, Coote published an earlier book called Ancient Skills, an introduction to primitive skills/wilderness survival. It holds a favoured position in my library.
Another exciting component of the new book, is it's available as an ebook, which is excellent for those that use ebook readers to store survival information, not to mention it's considerably cheaper than a hard copy.
I'm not going to do a review on the book because I only just started on it and I'm not particularly good at that kind of thing, anyway.
For those of you that's interested, it can be found here.
Nice looking cover, btw, Mr. Coote. I tried to post a picture, but Photobucket really seems screwed up anymore.
Doc
