The best camping/survival book

[Thomas Linton]

The Boy Scout Manual is a GREAT book. You should also get a copy of the Boy Scout Fieldbook, which as a general outdoor skills and knowledge book, you'd be hard pressed to beat. Best thing is, these can be picked up for next to nothing in used bookstores and on ebay.

The Handbook once was a great source of outdoors information. More recent editions have been less so. The outdoor information is found more in other BSA publications than the Handbook (if found at all). No more pages of animal tracks and drawings of leaves.

The decision (made without consulting the Scouts/customers) to move to "urban-centered Scouting" in the 1970's ("Boy Power") caused a reduction in outdoor/nature content and the national unit goal for days and nights of camping. Even when Boy Power was abandoned and Bill Hillcourt was brought out of forced retirement to edit a new edition of the Handbook, the outdoor content was only opartially restored.


Another vote for "98.6."

 

[Elkchsr]

Tom Brown has a survival book out that will teach the basics to the 'nth' he doesn't go into any of the fancy stuff, but does explain all of the simplest methods that would help one survive any where... Every thing else is just plain good living...