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The Field and Forest Handy Book: New Ideas for Out of Doors (Nonpareil Book, 94.)
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The Field and Forest Handy Book: New Ideas for Out of Doors (Nonpareil Book, 94.)
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by Daniel Carter Beard; David R. Godine
Sales Rank: 76276
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List Price: $14.95
$10.17
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on 12-27-2008
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Paperback: 428 pages
Publisher: David R Godine August 1, 2000
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1567921655
ISBN-13: 978-1567921656
Product Dimensions:
7.6 x 5.3 x 1.3 inches
Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
From Publishers Weekly
Daniel C. Beard (1850-1941), a founder of the Boy Scouts of America, introduces the adventure inherent in the great outdoors and offers simple solutions for overcoming various obstacles in The Field and Forest Handy Book: New Ideas for Out of Doors, first published in 1906 and now reissued in a facsimile edition. Readers can learn how to make a luna kite in the spring, a cheap boat in the summer, an altar camp stove in the autumn and a toboggan in the winter. For those who want to stay indoors, a chapter titled "How to Build Play Houses, Secret Castles and How to Make Mysterious Chests" is included. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
Product Description
Daniel C. Beard was not only a founder of Boy Scouting in America, but also a prolific and engaging author. His great passion was making boys and girls feel at home in nature, to allow them to experience its wonders while fostering their sense of self-sufficiency and independence. The present volume introduces young people to the pleasures and challenges of camping. In it, Beard suggests any number of projects, plans, and schemes to entertain those whose travels take them into open fields and forests, who want to know everything from how to build kites and birdhouses to snow houses and snow men.
There are chapters on packing a horse, on making clothes and moccasins, on camp cooking, on building piers, boats, and sleds. As usual, the directions are clear, the diagrams simple, and the activities seductive. This is an age when the most common phrase one hears from children is "I"m bored." With this book in hand, you can send them into the smallest woodland plot and be sure they'll have an activity that will occupy them for hours, as well as projects that are not only fun to do but that actually work.
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