The Field and Forest Handy Book: New Ideas for Out of Doors (Nonpareil Book) [SCM]
by Daniel Carter Beard Author
(From Amazon): 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.
Additional Details
- Resource Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 978-1-56792-165
- Print Status
- In Print
- Chapters
- 37
- Pages
- 428
- Suggested Grades
- 4th - 12th
- Publisher
- David R Godine
- Copyright
- 2000
- Written
- 1906
Chapters
- 1 How to Make a Tailless Filipino
- 2 Airships, Broom-Straw Flying Machines and Kites
- 3 How to Make a Herbarium
- 4 How to Plant Quail
- 5 Houses for Useful Birds
- 6 How to Make Flying Cages
- 7 How to Make a Land and Water Aquarium and How to Make and Stock a Vivarium
- 8 How to Build a Fire Engine
- 9 How to Make a Diving Cart, Poles, Slings and Chump's Rafts for Bathers
- 10 How to Build a Cheap Boat
- 11 How to Cross a Stream on a Log
- 12 How to Make a Bridge for Swift Waters
- 13 How to Build Substantial Piers and Bridges at Your Camp or Summer Home
- 14 Gateways for Permanent Camps or Country Houses
- 15 How to Build Indoor Play Houses, Secret Castles, and How to Make Mysterious Treasure Chests
- 16 How to Camp Out in Your Back Yard
- 17 How to Make a Real Hunter's Clothes and Moccasins
- 18 How to Build Beaver-Mat Huts, Camps and Cots, Fagot Houses, Roads and Fences
- 19 Every-day Woodcraft for Every-day People
- 20 Camp Cooking and How to Build an Altar Camp Stove and a Clay Oven
- 21 How to Keep Game and Fish in Camp
- 22 How to Pack and Unpack in the Woods
- 23 Throwing the Squaw Hitch
- 24 How to Pack a Pack Horse and How to Throw the Diamond Hitch
- 25 How to Pack a Dog and How to Make the Pack Saddle
- 26 Making Difficult Camps Over the Water or on a Swamp
- 27 How to Make Jack-knife Door Latches
- 28 How to Build a Real Log House
- 29 How to Build and Furnish a Surprise Den in a Modern House
- 30 Some New Winter Camps, and How to Build Them and Heat Them
- 31 How to Make Snow Houses and Snow Men
- 32 How to Put on Snow Shoes
- 33 How to Build a Jumper, or Humpdurgin, and a Gummer, in the Woods
- 34 How to Make a Skiboggan, a Barrel-stave Toboggan, and a Toboggan-bob
- 35 How to Make Plain Sleds and Bob-sleighs
- 36 The Van Kleeck Bob
- 37 How to Steer a Bob-Sled
User Reviews
Add a Review
You'll need to log in to your account before leaving a review. Don't have an account? You can sign up for free!