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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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5.00/5

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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4.00/5

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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4.00/5

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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From: Amazon Posted: Jan 21, 2007 Type: User Review

Dan Beard; Field and Forest Handy Book

Excellent book for any outdoor explorer. Interesting for adults, too. Now our sons want his other books!
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From: Amazon Posted: Jan 05, 2007 Type: User Review

Perfect for a young man

My son read the covers off the first D. C. Beard book we got (The American Boys Handy Book) and I can tell this will swiftly suffer the same fate. Detailed instructions for dozens of projects... he can't put it down.
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From: Amazon Posted: Mar 19, 2006 Type: User Review

great fun!

Originally written 100 years ago, this delightful book shows you how to enjoy the Great Outdoors. Divided seasonally, the author shows you, via illustrations and diagrams, how to make kites, bird houses, aquariams, boats,sleds, moccasins, shirts,...
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From: Amazon Posted: Jun 20, 2001 Type: User Review

Handbook for raising Tom Sawyer

I hardly know where to begin. Like the Boys' and Girls' Handybooks, this hefty little book is full of ideas from a bygone era. Written in 1906, the activities are not always the kind of things our kids can do today...but this is a book of IDEAS!...
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