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Fallow Way
26-06-2004, 19:49
Paperback 240 pages (October 11, 2004)
Publisher: Coronet
ISBN: 0340825162
Book Description
This is the bestselling compendium of survival skills and wisdom from around the world. Containing step-by-step guides, inspiring accounts of Ray’s own experiences and his philosophy behind bushcraft, this is a book to be treasured by wilderness travellers and armchair explorers everywhere. Illustrated with over 250 colour photographs and line drawings, this is THE definitive book on wilderness survival
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0340825162/qid=1088275308/sr=1-10/ref=sr_1_11_10/202-2972746-2011865
RAPPLEBY2000
27-06-2004, 00:14
well going by the IBSN no it is not:
bushcraft,
outdoor survival handbook,
or survival handbook!
sounds like it's a mixture of the lot though!
prehaps worth looking into before buying! :shock:
bushwacker bob
27-06-2004, 00:56
Amazon say its not yet published,they're taking advanced orders.Therefor it probably hasn't got a useable IBSN yet
Justin Time
27-06-2004, 07:55
looking at the pic, I wonder whether it's just a revised version of the big Bushcraft book. It does mention bestselling on the blurb which suggests it's already been on sale
looks like the big hardback book is coming out in paper back.
cheers, and.
its already out in paperback so it can't be that....
is it? :shock:
i've seen essential bushcraft in paperback, haven't seen the full version in paperback.
cheers, and.
Yup. Bought mine quite awhile ago thinking it was a different book.
Hmmm...the isbn is different but the pages are exactly the same: 240.
I misspoke in the last thread. I bought the Outdoor Survival Handbook twice. Same book, two different isbn numbers. :shock: Looks like a UK version and a US version, with different publishers, Random House in the UK and St. Martin's Griffin in the US. The second time I bought it, I thought it was his first book but it's not.
But yes, I also have the paperback version of the Bushcraft book as well. Hmmm...I just noticed also that both of these books have 240 pages. Must be a magical number, some kind of mystical aboriginal bushcrafty number that is pregnant with hidden meanings... :-D Or not...
jamesdevine
29-06-2004, 12:30
Yep I have a paperback version of the big bushcraft book as well.
My wife got through her book club and I have never seen it in a book store here only the hard back version.
James
Hoodoo's right - it wouldnt be the first time his books have been re-released with a new title and cover but the same contents.
And I bet a lot of people have been caught out too how many people bought both The complete outdoor handbook and then also bought outdoor survival handbook?
Good money spinner for the publishers and author though!
I was well annoyed when i ended up with 2 copies of the same book just different titles. i have to ask is the author running out of new things to say.