Sculling about in the local secondhand bookshop I came across this and captured it, for old times sake..
Never mind all that Gucci kit and fancy boots..
Haven't seen this on my wanderings, well not since the 1950's anyway....
Sculling about in the local secondhand bookshop I came across this and captured it, for old times sake..
Never mind all that Gucci kit and fancy boots..
Haven't seen this on my wanderings, well not since the 1950's anyway....
Last edited by saxonaxe; 22-01-2014 at 04:08 PM.
Nice find
Ne te confundant illigitimiIt is always a pleasure to see what you can make !, instead of buying it ready made. R Proenneke.
I picked this one up last month, love old books, they even smell good
printed in the 40's, has lots of projects to make whilst in the woods,
will try a few this year,
I'd love to find something like that
Border Bushcrafters
Isn't it nice when someone says "that's a great piece of kit, where did you buy that", then you can modestly reply "you can't buy it, I made it myself". The moral is, it's amazing what you can achieve if you put your mind to it.
"No better burden can a man carry on the road, than a store of common sense." - Hávamál: 10
http://midgefodderbushcraft.blogspot.co.uk
Midge, a lot of the older books now out of copyright are to be found on the internet for you to download. Project Guttenberg is very good
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34773
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24579
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44215
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17093
Not just woodcraft etc, this is a stunning read
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/30197
University of Adelaide has another great free ebook site
http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/
They all come in different formats for Kindle, plain text etc so you don't need a Kindle to read them although you can download the free Kindle app for PC/Apple/Android. I've spent hours searching through the above sites and there are more books there than I'll have time to read in this lifetime.
Richard
South Wales UK
It's great to know that. I've haven't used ebooks, I only just discovered I could get trout and fly fisher on my phone lol. Cheers ShugOriginally Posted by rik_uk3
Last edited by Midge_Fodder; 20-02-2014 at 10:09 AM.
Border Bushcrafters
Isn't it nice when someone says "that's a great piece of kit, where did you buy that", then you can modestly reply "you can't buy it, I made it myself". The moral is, it's amazing what you can achieve if you put your mind to it.
"No better burden can a man carry on the road, than a store of common sense." - Hávamál: 10
http://midgefodderbushcraft.blogspot.co.uk
No problem chap. I love 'real' books but electronic readers whether a kindle or phone or laptop or tablet still mean you are reading a book which is so important given that so many rely on snippits from the likes of Wikipedia et al. The wife and I would take five or six books on holiday with us, these days we take thousands
Richard
South Wales UK
Aye it's also nice as I've saved those links onto my phone through sky drive, no memory loss and I can get to them when I'm out without ruining a perfectly good book. Still can't beat the smell of a dusty old book though, on a par to me with that smell of old oil you get on antique tools lol
Border Bushcrafters
Isn't it nice when someone says "that's a great piece of kit, where did you buy that", then you can modestly reply "you can't buy it, I made it myself". The moral is, it's amazing what you can achieve if you put your mind to it.
"No better burden can a man carry on the road, than a store of common sense." - Hávamál: 10
http://midgefodderbushcraft.blogspot.co.uk
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