Автор: Raymond Mears
Название: The Survival Handbook: A Practical Guide to Woodcraft and Woodlore
Издательство: The Promotional Reprint Co Ltd
Год: 1990
ISBN: 1856481808
Язык: English
Формат: pdf
Размер: 27,2 mb
Страниц: 207

The skills contained within this book are not new, experts have been writing about them for nearly a hundred years, grouping them together under the well-suited title of 'woodcraft'. In more recent years they have somehow acquired a macho image and been renamed survival skills. There is no real harm in this but for the fact that in the process, many of the techniques have been inaccurately described. To those of us who grew up with, and still use the original skills of woodcraft, these errors are alarming if sometimes funny. But more importantly they represent the watering down and gradual disappearance of knowledge and experience which was formerly passed from father to son, mother to daughter. Were these skills to disappear altogether it would be a tragedy, for they are our birthright, a living link with our palaeolithic ancestors, that allows us to see nature with native eyes and understanding.

All of the skills covered in the following pages are described from practical experience.