Shelters, Shacks, and Shanties: The Classic Guide to Building Wilderness Shelters (Dover Books on Architecture)
Language: English
Published by Dover Publications, 2004
Series: Book 1 of 11 - Dover Crafts: Building & Construction
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- Title
- Shelters, Shacks, and Shanties: The Classic Guide to Building Wilderness Shelters (Dover Books on Architecture)
- Author
- Beard, D. C.
- Publisher
- Dover Publications
- Publication year
- 2004
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0486437477
- ISBN 13
- 9780486437477
- Series
- Book 1 of 11: Dover Crafts: Building & Construction
This excellent hands-on guide by one of the founders of the Boy Scouts of America contains a wealth of practical instruction and advice on how to build everything from a bark teepee and a tree-top house to a log cabin and a sod house. No professional architects are needed here, and knowing how to use an axe is more important than possessing carpentry skills.
More than 300 of the author's own illustrations and a clear, easy-to-follow text enable campers to create such lodgings as half-cave shelters, beaver mat huts, birchbark shacks, over-water camps, a Navajo hogan, and a pole house. Additional chapters provide information on how to use an axe, split and notch logs, make a fireplace, and even build appropriate gateways to log houses, game preserves, ranches, and other open areas.
An invaluable book for scouts, campers, hikers, and hunters of all ages, this guide and its fascinating collection of outdoor lore "still has intrinsic value," said Whole Earth Magazine, and will be of keen interest to any modern homesteader.
- Get all the knowledge you need to construct your own wilderness lodgings, with step-by-step guidance from this easy-to-follow handbook on building camp lodgings. Learn how to make a bark teepee, tree-top house, log cabin, pole house, sod house, half-cave shelters, beaver mat huts, birchbark shacks, over-water camps, a Navajo hogan, and more.
- Perfect for outdoorsy types of all ages: scouts, campers, hikers, hunters, and wilderness survivalists! Pick up valuable skills from one of the founders of the Boy Scouts of America, Daniel Carter Beard.
- Over 300 illustrations! Visualize each step of your building project with the help of detailed illustrations. Follow along closely and get creative with this classic instruction guide for roughing it!
- You don't need any professional architectural experience or special carpentry skills to put this book's information into action. Additional chapters provide information on how to use an axe effectively and split and notch logs the right way for the best results, make a fireplace, and build gateways for game preserves, ranches, and other open areas.
- Ideal for modern homesteaders! Master the art of bushcraft shelter construction--create dynamic structures that are not only functional but aesthetically pleasing as well.
- Discover more than just building techniques in Shelters, Shacks, and Shanties. Explore fascinating outdoor lore that's still relevant today.
- An ideal gift for anyone who wants to explore the great outdoors and learn traditional building methods for survival shelters and more!
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About the Author
Known as "Uncle Dan" to those who knew him well, Daniel Carter Beard (June 21, 1850-June 11, 1941) was a famed author, illustrator, and social champion. Inspired by the rugged traditions of the American frontier, Beard founded the Sons of Daniel Boone in 1905. Five years later, he merged the organization with the newly formed Boy Scouts of America.
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