Bushcraft: Outdoor Skills & Wilderness Survival
by Mors Kochanski
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Author: Mors KochanskiEdition: Paperback
Published: 2008-03-20
ISBN: 1551051222
Number of pages: 301
Publisher: Lone Pine Publishing
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Book Review: Bad News for Tree Huggers
Summary: 1 Stars
The author of this book seems to think that the solution to every possible problem is to chop down a tree. Trees are used as fuel or as a construction material that is shaped to purpose by axe. His methods are so labor-intensive that the uninitiated would perish before accomplishing anything. And if you can't get what you need by chopping down a tree, you can go out and wrestle the skin off a live elk!
The book is worthless in a survival situation. Those who rely on this book to save them in a true survival situation would be at serious risk of perishing. But there are some good ideas if you are going to build a semi-permanent encampment in a heavily forested area, live there a while, and have plenty of food and shelter to keep you going. Building things by axe craft is very tough physical work! Digging up a spruce root for fiber projects is probably even worse! Axe craft is intermediate between stone chipping and urban disaster preparation, and could be sustainable technology if one knew how to smelt iron to make axe heads and knife blades from earth materials.
Alas, none of this (except the cordage craft) is applicable in our California dry lands and deserts. Nothing here on obtaining food from native plants, trapping small animals, etc.
Unless you live in wet thick woods and you are good with an axe, this book is not very useful.
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