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The Field and Forest Handy Book: New Ideas for Out of Doors (Nonpareil Book, 94.)

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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. This 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 the 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--growing up in a world of unparalleled opportunity--is \Im bored.\ With this book in hand, you can send them into the smallest woodland plot and be sure theyll 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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From: Amazon Posted: Nov 23, 2008 Type: User Review Great outdoor book for kids (and grownups)!

This book makes me think of the Little Rascals! It has great activities from a time that has all but disappeared. A time when kids played outside from sunup to sundown and created their own world of imaginative play. The only note of caution I...
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From: Amazon Posted: Mar 05, 2008 Type: User Review The Field and Forest Handy Book:

This is a very good book with a lot of information about outdoor life in days gone by. The snowshoe section contained some excellent information.
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From: Amazon Posted: Feb 05, 2008 Type: User Review Back to Nature

I got this for my 16 year old son. We recently moved from town to a very rural area, and he's been complaining there's nothing to do...so I got him this book and a tool kit. There's a lot of neat stuff to build, and useful survival information. I...
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From: Amazon Posted: Dec 19, 2007 Type: User Review Amazons Service sucks

I wanted to let you know who bad Amazons service is I ordered this book on December 10th and was told it would be here on time. Well afer spending an hour on the phone with someone from the Philippines my problem was not solved and I am pissed and...
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From: Amazon Posted: Nov 11, 2007 Type: User Review All Ages

A fun read. Informative. Have been an outdoorsman for 40 years and I learned some new skills from this book.

Content is aimed primarily at youth of years-gone-by... I smiled plenty of times while reading it.
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