Ernest Thompson Seton The Big Book of Country Living Paperback

In a single volume Ernest Thompson Seton, renowned naturalist, writer, artist, and founding leader of the Boy Scouts of America, presents one of the most comprehensive guides to the outdoors ever written. Originally published in 1922 as The Book of Woodcraft, this work represents the culmination of years of observation and experience in the wilderness. Within these pages lie instructions and anecdotessome expected, some delightfully unanticipatedregarding literally hundreds of arts, crafts, skills, and games. Here one can learn to distinguish edible plants from poisonous ones start a fire using only a jackknife build a fourstore birdhouse out of a wooden box communicate in sign language tie a variety of essential knots identify trees, wildflowers, animals, birds, and constellations and much, much more. | Ernest Thompson Seton The Big Book of Country Living Paperback