The Field & Forest Handy Book by Dan Beard

The Field & Forest Handy Book by Dan Beard

Companion to the other Handy Books. This book introduces young people to the pleasures & challenges of camping. The author suggests any number of projects, plans, and schemes to entertain those whose travels take them into the open fields and forests, who want to know everything from how to build kites and birdhouses to snow houses and snowmen. 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 (and we speak from some experience) when the most common phrase one hears from children - growing up in a world of unparalleled opportunity - 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.

Full of outdoor activities circa 1880.

Paperback, 428 pages.