Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 745.44978 EAN: 9781890437336 ISBN: 1890437336 Label: Western Reflections Publishing Company Manufacturer: Western Reflections Publishing Company Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 160 Publication Date: October 14, 1999 Publisher: Western Reflections Publishing Company Sales Rank: 1052125 Studio: Western Reflections Publishing Company
Product DescriptionHave you ever wanted to make a pair of Indian mocassins, cook in a dutch oven or make a pair of snowshoes -- by hand, the old fashioned way? This book will teach you everything you wanted to know about survival skills -- from making saws to tanning leather to Lighting Grandma's Fire. Bill Cunningham also includes an extensive list of suppliers who can provide those hard to find old-fashioned materials.
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Rating: - Grandmas fire went out!!
For all the hype on this book I expected more. there were things that were quite interesting, but this didn't cover up the things that weren't. If you are a beginner at do things for yourself then you will like this book....Ken
Rating: - Individual skills still important
I think it is amazing, perhaps instructive, that as we enter the new millennium, with its high tech hardware and eye-glazing promises, there is a growing interest in learning skills that depend more on the individual and less on machines. This interest to be self-sufficient, indeed in some cases to survive, cuts across socio-economic lines and relies on the ability and resources of the individual and not so much on the much-touted 20th century technology and its attendant costs. The genesis of ... Read More
- Individual skills still important
