A Bushcraft Book collection

[Minotaur]

Well "The survival handbook" by Raymond Mears has a chapter called 'Possibles' which gives an overview of kit to take...

...and on page 198 :

"Some folk reckon the best way to deal with a bear is a 44 magnum revolver. if so the following advice gleaned from an expert backwoodsman should be followed. 'Be sure to file off the front sight of your magnum before entering bear country.' Why? 'It's less painful that way when the bear shoves it up your ...!'

sound familiar?

Bang on by the sound of it. Now too find the book.

Are these books or pamphlets available softcopy eg PDF as I simply do not have the space for a physical book collection?

I am slowly creating a html library. Lost some books at a scout camp 20ish years ago, I am still trying to replace all of them. Lucky my Gilwells were at home.

What the plan is to have all of the books worth carrying with me, and to also start making my own refrence. Any one who Bird watches will tell you it is a nightmare to find a decent single refrence.

It would be easier to do in a database or other form, but in html it basically runs on anything.

I read an article that stated that we retain about 10-20% of the information we read so with that in mind you must be an amazing font of knowledge?

It depends, on the person, and the situation. If you interact with the information, you tend to retain more. The more you enjoy a book, the more you retain as well.

From the conversations (moot) and the course with Mors I would like to make a start on flora, locally first and then wider afield, its something I havent paid much attention to in the past, something I wish to rectify now, I would appreciate a starter list, I have a few already, collins trees, food for free, wild food. Specifically more on plants and trees, and there uses, Wayne ? mentioned a book, collins I think on herbs, and their uses, thats the kinda thing I'm after, any help gratefully received.

Find the Collins Gem books really useful.

The best herb book is a version of Culpepper's complete herbal. You can get the original from works and similar. The one people recommend is the colour one I think, which is availible on Amazon. I am sure someone will put up the full title.

There are a couple of tree books out of Kew, that are surposed to be good reading, and contain lots of info.

Have a look for your local Botanical gardens, they tend to have a lot of experts who do walks and things. Plus they will have native species labeled up for you to look at. There is a garden owned by them, called the scienific garden I think somewere london way, that has every single herb, and medical plant labeled. Worth checking around, Arwick castle has just opened their new gardens, and I am sure they have something similar.

Books are good, but I still spot trees the way my scout leader taught me. If you can find someone who can teach you the little tricks of the trade it is so much easier.

[sam_acw]

Rumor has it that the Ray Mears book in question is available as a PDF somewhere on the web, though it is still in copyright and shouldn't be.
There are a lot of old books available here - Internet Archive

[Gailainne]

Cheers for the suggestions, I did a search on Abe Books and found quite a few, most only a couple of quid each, including the culpepper one, so I've ordered a "few"

Stephen

[Minotaur]

Cheers for the suggestions, I did a search on Abe Books and found quite a few, most only a couple of quid each, including the culpepper one, so I've ordered a "few"

Stephen

I feel your pain. I want the colour myself, but have an RHS book that is brillant, and the original version of Culpeppers.

Books are my crack, I am always giving in and buying them.

By the way there is a Collins Gem Food For Free, if you have not seen it.

Rumor has it that the Ray Mears book in question is available as a PDF somewhere on the web, though it is still in copyright and shouldn't be.
There are a lot of old books available here - Internet Archive

As stupid as it is, I like to own the book, while I will never take them out into the wilds again. Because of the interests, it is not very often I buy a new non-fiction book so the author does not really benefit.

There was a scan doing the rounds, but it was massivly edited, and I think the newer book.

The Survival Handbook (1990) - One I want
The Outdoor Survival Handbook (1992) - Seen a very bad scan of this one.

I have a feeling the one I want is the one that gets scary money on ebay.

It is a kind of weird world I now live in, I buy certain medias and they sit on the shelf looking pretty while I use them in another form complely. Buy CD's listen to MP3's. Buy books to read html files.

The portable library is worth the effort for many reasons. It is its own light source. You can change font sizes, and colours(Apprently a black background, with yellow is easier to read). I do not own expensive books, but replacing some of them would be impossible, or as I said 20 years still trying to find some of them. The other side of it is, as I said sometimes you need three guides to do one job well. This way I can carry a complete library in the size and space of a tobacco tin, or in a mobile.

The dump.com has some pdf of scout stuff, I own a lot of originals including some of the leaflet books, that I should store in plastic bags, and maybe only handle with gloves on.

[Galemys]

A nice little find in the Amsterdam library; "How to build an igloo, and other snow shelters" by Norbert E. Yankielun
I have never tried to construct a snow shelter before (hard to do with zero to a few inches of snow once a year) but if there will ever be enough snow cover to make one I'll get this book out.

Here's some blurb about the books contents from the writer's website:
http://www.doctorwhy.com/igloobook.html

Cheers,

Tom

[Stuart]

Just updating the list with new additions:

Books:

Knowledge of the Ancestors - by Ryan Leech
Snow Caves - by Ernest Wilkinson

Videos:

Woodsmoke: Primitive pottery - by Richard & Linda Jamison
Woodsmoke: Primitive cooking - by Richard & Linda Jamison
Woodsmoke: Fire volume 1 - by Richard & Linda Jamison
Survival and self reliance - by Mel DeWeese & Friends
Fire Volume 1 - by Tom Laskowski
Fire Volume 2 - by Tom Laskowski

[Stuart]

Forgot to add these in the last post:

Stone Age Living Skills, Fire, Food and Cordage - Jim Riggs & Robert Earthworm

Stone Age Living Skills, Hide Tanning - Robert Earthworm & Melvin Beattie

Stone Age Living Skills, Arrows - Brian James

[sam_acw]

Just got a copy of Indian fishing in the post this week - that's a truly awesome book.

[Stuart]

Updating the list on the first page of this thread:

Emergency Navigation - David Burch

The Basic Essentials of Desert Survival - Dave Ganci

Dwelling Portably 1980-89 - Bert and Holly Davis
Dwelling Portably 1990-99 - Bert and Holly Davis
Dwelling Portably 2000-2008 - Bert and Holly Davis

The Complete Guide to Edible wild plants,fruits and Nuts - Katie Letcher Lyle

Hints to travellers Scientific and general (1883) – Royal Geographical society

A Collection of Indigenous Indonesian Technologies - Craig Thorburn

Aids to Survival – W.A. POLICE ACADEMY COMMAND & LAND OPERATIONS UNIT

Camp Life in the Woods and the Tricks of Trapping and Trap Making - William Hamilton Gibson

Never say die – Canadian Military


Desert expeditions – Tom Sheppard
Tropical Forest Expeditions - By Clive Jermy and Roger Chapman
Polar Expeditions – Rachel Duncan

The Prairie Traveler handbook for overland expeditions (1859) – Randolph P. Marcy

Ranger Medical Handbook –US Army Special Operations Command

Sanitation Without Water - Uno Winblad and Wen Kitama

The Ship’s Medicine Chest and Medical Aid at Sea - U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Handbook of knots and splices – Charles Gibson

Homegrown sun dwellings – Peter Van Dresser

Hunting with a Bow and arrow – Saxton pope

Axe Manual of Peter McLaren – Peter McLaren

The complete book of heating with wood – Larry Gay

Saskatchewan trapper training manual – Saskatchewan Education Northern division

Village Technology Handbook - Volunteers in Technical Assistance

Wood Conserving Stoves a Design Guide - Volunteers in Technical Assistance

Woodsmanship – Bernard S. Mason

The Woodsman and Craft Book (1910) – Hoffman ??

Shifts and Expedients of Camp Life for Travel & Exploration (1871) – W.B Lord & T. Baines

Survival and Austere Medicine - The Remote, Austere, Wilderness and Third World Medicine Discussion Board

How to make tools - Christiansen & Bernard Zubrowski

Improvised repairs to wheeled vehicles in the field (1943) – British MOD

Minor surgical procedures in remote areas – Medecins San frontiers

Mini Technology Handbook Volume 1 & 2 – B.R. Saubolle & S.J. Bachmann

Automotive operation and maintenance (for Pioneer roads) – E. Christopher Cone

Pamphlets:

Frictional Fire Making With a Flexible Fire Thong – Henry Balfour

Aboriginal Fire Making - Walter Hough

Cold Weather Operations Personal Survival And Safety guide – British MOD

Desert Weather Operations Personal Survival And Safety guide – British MOD

[Stuart]

posting the updated list here to save people having to got to the first page to find it:


Title - Author

Northern Bushcraft - Mors kochanski
Naked into the wilderness - John & geri Mcpherson
Naked into the wilderness 2 - John & Geri McPhearson
New way of the wilderness - Calvin Rutstrum
Arctic Manual - Vilhjalmur Stefanson
The best of woodsmoke - Richard L. Jamison
Primitive outdoor skills - Richard L Jamison
Woodsmoke - Richard & Linda Jamison
Bushcraft - Richard Graves
Camping and woodcraft - Horace Kephart
Earth Knack - Bart & Robin Blankenship
Outdoor survival skills - Larry Dean Olsen
Shelters shacks and shanties - D.C. Beard
wildwood wisdom - Ellsworth Jaeger
scouting for boys first edition - Baden Powell
the poachers handbook - Ian Niall
The art of Tracking, The origin of science - Louis Liebenberg
The traditional bowers bible - numerous authors
The nature and subsequent uses of flint - John W. Lord
Life at the extremes the science of survival - Frances Ashcroft
Deep Survival - Laurence Gonzales
Performing in extreme environments - Lawrence E. Armstrong
Mountainman crafts and skills - David Montgomery
98.6 Degrees the art of keeping your *** alive - cody lundin
Survival advantage - Andrew Lane
How to survive on land and sea - US naval institute press
The Wilderness Route finder - Calvin Rutstrum
Home manufacture of Furs and Skins - A.B. Farnham
Home tanning and leather making guide - A.B Farnham
Tanning at Home - W.B Scarbough
Deadfalls and snares - A.R Harding
Poachers and poaching - John Watson
The Sling for sport and survival - Cliff Savage
The Trappers Bible - Dale martin
into the primitive - Dale martin
Animal Traps and Trapping - James A. Bateman
Culpepers herbal remedies - Nicholas Culpeper
finding your way without a map or compass - Harrold Gatty
Participating in Nature - Thomas J. Elpel
Indian Fishing - Hilary Stewart
Wound Management - Jill A. David
Expedition Medicine - The Royal Geographical society
Where there is no doctor - David Werner
Where there is no Dentist - Murray Dickson
Care of the Critticaly Ill Patient in the Tropics and Subtropics - David A.K. Watters, et al
Primary Diagnosis & Treatment, in Developing countries - Daniel E. Fountain
Sahara overland - Chris Scott
Vehicle Dependant Expedition Guide - Tom Sheppard
The Ultimate desert Handbook - Mark Johnson
Recipes for roughing it easy - Dian Thomas
Survive the savage sea - Dougal Robertson
how to **** in the woods - Kathleen Meyer
Living off nature - Judy Urquhart
The survival handbook - Raymond mears
Essential Bushcraft - Ray Mears
Outdoors survival handbook - Ray Mears
How to survive in the woods - Bradford angier
Food for free - Richard Mabey
A cook on the wild side - Hugh fearnley-whittingstall
No need to Die - Eddie McGee
Knife Making - Bo Bergman
Search and Rescue Survival Training AF Reg 64-4 - US department of the air force
The Practical Mushroom encyclopaedia - peter jorden & steve wheeler
Primitive Technology - Erret Callahan
The complete book of self sufficiency - John Seymour
Botany in a day - Thomas J. Elpel
Survival arts of the primitive Paiutes - Margaret M. Wheat
Survival skills of native California - Paul D. Cambell
Primitive technology, a book of earth skills - society for primitive technology
Primitive technology 2, Ancestral Skills - society for primitive technology
The ultimate encyclopedia of Knots and rope work - Geoffry Budworth
The S.A.S. survival hand book - John Wisman
Camplife in the woods and the tricks of trapping - W. Hamilton Gibson
woodsmanship - Bernard S. Mason
The axe Manual - Peter Mclaren
Nutrition in medicine - Simon P. Allison
Experiments on Knife sharpening - Department of materials science and engineering Iowa state university
The essentials of archery - L.E. Stemmler
Basic Blacksmithing - David Harries and Bernhard Heer
The Art of Travel - Francis Galton
Extreme survival - Dr Kenneth Kamler
Complete book of survival - Eddie McGee
Animals, tracks, trails and signs - R. Brown, M. Lawrence and J. pope
Winter wise - Montague Alford
The foraging spectrum - Robert L. Kelly
The Bushmans handbook - H. A. Lindsay
The Hunting peoples - Carleton S. Coon
Wound managment - Jill A. David
Medicine for Mountianeering and other wilderness activities - James A. Wilkerson
Pioneering projects - John Thurman
Army manual of Hygiene and Sanitation 1934 - MoD
Living off the land, a manual of bushcraft - Salt (Melbourne, Vic.)
Ditch Medicine - Hugh L. Coffee
Down but not out - Royal Canadian air force Survival training School
Outdoor saftey and survival - British Columbia outdoor recreation division
Survival Psychology - John Leach
Adrift - Steven Callahan
How to survive in the bush, on the coast, in the mountains of New Zealand – Lt B. Hildrith RNAF
Roughing it easy – Dian Thomas
Roughing it easy 2 - Dian Thomas
Inner navigation – Erik Jonsson
How to stay alive in the woods – Bradford Angier
The complete snow campers guide – Raymond Bridge
The wilderness handbook – Paul Petzoldt
Survive – Clay Blair, Jr.
Staying Alive – Maurice and Maralyn Bailey
Country Woodcraft - Drew Langsner
Bush Arts – Mors Kochanski
Wilderness canoeing and camping – Cliff Jacobson
The Nature doctor – Dr. H. C. A. Vogel
Rogers Herbal Manual – Robert Dale Rogers
The Fungal Pharmacy – Robert Rogers
On Your own in the Wilderness – Colonel Townsend Whelen
The Art of Survival – Cord Christian Troebst
Being Your own Wilderness Doctor – Dr. E. Russel Kodet
SkyGuide – Mark R. Chartrand
The Call of the Birds – Charles S. Bayne
Survival, how to prevail in hostile enviroments - Xavier Maniguet
Passport to Survival - Esther Dickey
Camplore and Woodcraft - Daniel Beard
The Winter Wilderness Companion - Garret conover & Alexandra Conover
Essentials of Sea Survival - Frank Golden MD, PHD & Michael Tipton PHD
The Tribal Living Book - David levinson & David Sherwood
Bushcraft Skills And How To Survive In The Wild - Anthonio Akkermans
Survival Wisdom & Know How - the editors of stackpole books
Dwellings - Paul Oliver
The Humanure Handbook - Jospeh Jenkins
Camplore And Bushcraft - Daniel Beard
Passport To Survival - Esther Dickey
Survival How to Prevail In Hostile Enviroments - Xavier Maniguet
Wilderness Survival Manual - BC Hydro / W.T. Floyd
Physiology Of Man In The Desert - E. F. Adolph
South Sea Lore - Kenneth P. Emory
Bushcraft How To Live In The Jungle And Bush
Dont Die In The Bundu - Col. D. H. Grainger
Wild Food - Gordon Hillman & Ray Mears
Uteliv - Lars Falt
Handbok Overlevnad - Lars Falt
Friluftsboken - Lars Falt
VinterFarden - Lars Falt
The Jungle Hiker - Royal Air Force Welfare ceylon
Craftsmen of Necessity - Christopher williams
Moving Heavy Things - Jan Adkins
When All Hell Breaks Loose - Cody Lundin
Wild Food - Roger Phillips
Knowledge of the Ancestors - Ryan Leech
Trees & Shrubs of the Okavango delta, Medicinal uses and Nutritional value, volume 1 & 2 - Veronica Roodt
Gemsbok Bean & Kalahari truffle, traditional plant use by Jul'hoansi in N.East Namibia - Arno Leffers
Snow Caves - Ernest Wilkinson
Emergency Navigation - David Burch
The Basic Essentials of Desert Survival - Dave Ganci
Dwelling Portably 1980-89 - Bert and Holly Davis
Dwelling Portably 1990-99 - Bert and Holly Davis
Dwelling Portably 2000-2008 - Bert and Holly Davis
The Complete Guide to Edible wild plants,fruits and Nuts - Katie Letcher Lyle
Hints to travellers Scientific and general (1883) – Royal Geographical society
A Collection of Indigenous Indonesian Technologies - Craig Thorburn
Aids to Survival – W.A. POLICE ACADEMY COMMAND & LAND OPERATIONS UNIT
Camp Life in the Woods and the Tricks of Trapping and Trap Making - William Hamilton Gibson
Never say die – Canadian Military
Desert expeditions – Tom Sheppard
Tropical Forest Expeditions - By Clive Jermy and Roger Chapman
Polar Expeditions – Rachel Duncan
The Prairie Traveler handbook for overland expeditions (1859) – Randolph P. Marcy
Ranger Medical Handbook –US Army Special Operations Command
Sanitation Without Water - Uno Winblad and Wen Kitama
The Ship’s Medicine Chest and Medical Aid at Sea - U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Handbook of knots and splices – Charles Gibson
Homegrown sun dwellings – Peter Van Dresser
Hunting with a Bow and arrow – Saxton pope
Axe Manual of Peter McLaren – Peter McLaren
The complete book of heating with wood – Larry Gay
Saskatchewan trapper training manual – Saskatchewan Education Northern division
Village Technology Handbook - Volunteers in Technical Assistance
Wood Conserving Stoves a Design Guide - Volunteers in Technical Assistance
Woodsmanship – Bernard S. Mason
The Woodsman and Craft Book (1910) – Hoffman ??
Shifts and Expedients of Camp Life for Travel & Exploration (1871) – W.B Lord & T. Baines
Survival and Austere Medicine - The Remote, Austere, Wilderness and Third World Medicine Discussion Board
How to make tools - Christiansen & Bernard Zubrowski
Improvised repairs to wheeled vehicles in the field (1943) – British MOD
Minor surgical procedures in remote areas – Medecins San frontiers
Mini Technology Handbook Volume 1 & 2 – B.R. Saubolle & S.J. Bachmann
Automotive operation and maintenance (for Pioneer roads) – E. Christopher Cone


pamphlets & booklets:

pioneering knots and lashings - Scout Troop 24
Sea survival - Ministry of defence
Arctic survival - Ministry of defence
Jungle Survival - Ministry of Defence
Basic wilderness survival in cold lacking snow - Mors Kochanski
The compass - Mors Kochanski
The two kilogram survival field kit manual - Mors Kochanski
Basic wilderness survival in deep snow - Mors Kochanski
Knife sharpening - Mors Kochanski
Top seven Bush Knots and the Use of the windlass - Mors Kochanski
tools of survival and survival training - Mors Kochanski
Basic netting - Mors Kochanski
Map use - Mors Kochanski
21 native edible plants - Mors Kochanski
the inuit snow house - Mors Kochanski
Survival kit ideas - Mors Kochanski
The simple cattail doll - Mors Kochanski
Wilderness Steam Bath - Mors Kochanski
When you meet a Black Bear - Mors Kochanski
The Northan Night Sky - Mors Kochanski
Basic weather Knowledge - Mors Kochaski
Winter Survival in the backcountry - unknown
Winter Survival - BC Hydro
Fickminnie Overlevnad - Lars Falt
fox fire Numerous issues - numerous
A Therapeutic Approch to Arctic Survival Rations - Terence a. rogers, et al
Physiology of Acute Starvation in Man - George F. Cahill
Snow as a life Saver - Don Vockeroth & Jhon Amatt
Survival in the desert - USAF survival school
Alberta Wilderness Arts and Recreation 1-16
The Psycology of Lost - Kenneth Hill
Aboriginal Fire-Making - Walter Hough
Frictional Fire Making With a Flexible Fire Thong – Henry Balfour
Cold Weather Operations Personal Survival And Safety guide – British MOD
Desert Weather Operations Personal Survival And Safety guide – British MOD


DVDs and VHS

Sticks as Tools and Implements – Mors Kochanski
Blades: Sharpening and Safe use – Mors Kochanski
Bush Knots – Mors Kochanski
Clothing and Sleeping Bags – Mors Kochanski
A Plant walk with Mors Kochanski Volumes 1 to 7 + master (8 DVD collection) – Mors Kochanski
3 Days at the River with nothing but our bare hands - Thomas J. Elpel
Mountain Meadows camping with almost nothing but the dog - Thomas J. Elpel
Mountain Lakes a survival fishing trip - Thomas J. Elpel
Canoe Camping on a song and a paddle - Thomas J. Elpel
SAS Survival Techniques (two VHS tapes) - John Wiseman
Woodsmoke: Primitive pottery - by Richard & Linda Jamison
Woodsmoke: Primitive cooking - by Richard & Linda Jamison
Woodsmoke: Fire volume 1 - by Richard & Linda Jamison
Survival and self reliance - by Mel DeWeese & Friends
Fire Volume 1 - by Tom Laskowski
Fire Volume 2 - by Tom Laskowski
Stone Age Living Skills, Fire, Food and Cordage - Jim Riggs & Robert Earthworm
Stone Age Living Skills, Hide Tanning - Robert Earthworm & Melvin Beattie
Stone Age Living Skills, Arrows - Brian James

[chickenofthewoods]

Aww geeze. Now I have even more books/pamphlets/DVDs to put on my wish list.

[Stuart]

A few more to add:

Food And Emergency Food In The Circumpolar Area - Kerstin Eidlitz
Cache Lake Country - John J. Rowlands
Campers' Guide to Woodcraft and Outdoor Life - Luis Henderson
Paradise Below Zero - Calvin Rutstrum
The Natural Navigator - Tristan Gooley
Survival - Chris & Gretchen Janowsky
Manifold destiny - Chris Maynard & Bill Scheller

[BonnieWolf]

I found this list very useful indeed! many thanks!

Though i'm still looking for a small (pocket sized) book on solely tree types and what they are good for.

[Whittler Kev]

Just ordered a journey to the northern ocean by Samuel Hearne - Paperback as a hardback copy was £119 +

[Stuart]

I've fallen a little behind in updating this, but I've now added the recently aquired titles and put it in alphabetical order.

the 1st post has been edited to reflect the update, here is what it looks like now:

Title - Author

Books:

98.6 Degrees the art of keeping your ass alive - cody lundin
A Collection of Indigenous Indonesian Technologies - Craig Thorburn
A cook on the wild side - Hugh fearnley-whittingstall
Adrift - Steven Callahan
Aids to Survival – W.A. Police Academy Command & Land Operations unit
Animal Traps and Trapping - James A. Bateman
Animals, tracks, trails and signs - R. Brown, M. Lawrence and J. pope
Arctic Manual - Vilhjalmur Stefanson
Army manual of Hygiene and Sanitation 1934 - MoD
Automotive operation and maintenance (for Pioneer roads) – E. Christopher Cone
Axe Manual of Peter McLaren – Peter McLaren
Basic Blacksmithing - David Harries and Bernhard Heer
Being your own Wilderness Doctor – Dr. E. Russel Kodet
Botany in a day - Thomas J. Elpel
British Trees in Colour - Cyril Hart, illus Charles Raymond
Bush Arts – Mors Kochanski
Bushcraft - Richard Graves
Bushcraft How to Live In The Jungle And Bush
Bushcraft Skills and How To Survive In The Wild - Anthonio Akkermans
Cache Lake Country - John J. Rowlands
Camp Life in the Woods and the Tricks of Trapping and Trap Making - William Hamilton Gibson
Campers' Guide to Woodcraft and Outdoor Life - Luis Henderson
Camping and woodcraft - Horace Kephart
Camping in the Old Style - Dave Wescott, David Wescott
Camplife in the woods and the tricks of trapping - W. Hamilton Gibson
Camplore and Woodcraft - Daniel Beard
Care of the Critically Ill Patient in the Tropics and Subtropics - David A.K. Watters
Complete book of survival - Eddie McGee
Country Woodcraft - Drew Langsner
Craftsmen of Necessity - Christopher williams
Culpepers herbal remedies - Nicholas Culpeper
Deadfalls and snares - A.R Harding
Deep Survival - Laurence Gonzales
Desert expeditions – Tom Sheppard
Desert Survival Tips, Tricks & Skills -Tony Nester
Ditch Medicine - Hugh L. Coffee
Don’t Die in The Bundu - Col. D. H. Grainger
Down but not out - Royal Canadian air force Survival training School
Dwelling Portably 1980-89 - Bert and Holly Davis
Dwelling Portably 1990-99 - Bert and Holly Davis
Dwelling Portably 2000-2008 - Bert and Holly Davis
Dwellings - Paul Oliver
Earth Knack - Bart & Robin Blankenship
Emergency Navigation - David Burch
Essential Bushcraft - Ray Mears
Essentials of Sea Survival - Frank Golden MD, PHD & Michael Tipton PHD
Expedition Medicine - The Royal Geographical society
Experiments on Knife sharpening - Department of materials science and engineering Iowa state university
Extreme survival - Dr Kenneth Kamler
Finding your way without a map or compass - Harrold Gatty
Food and Emergency Food in the Circumpolar Area - Kerstin Eidlitz
Food for free - Richard Mabey
Friluftsboken - Lars Fält
Gemsbok Bean & Kalahari truffle, traditional plant use by Jul'hoansi in N.East Namibia - Arno Leffers
Handbok Overlevnad - Lars Fält
Handbook of knots and splices – Charles Gibson
Hints to travellers Scientific and general (1883) – Royal Geographical society
Home manufacture of Furs and Skins - A.B. Farnham
Home tanning and leather making guide - A.B Farnham
Homegrown sun dwellings – Peter Van Dresser
How to **** in the woods - Kathleen Meyer
How to make tools - Christiansen & Bernard Zubrowski
How to stay alive in the woods – Bradford Angier
How to survive in the bush, on the coast, in the mountains of New Zealand – Lt B. Hildrith RNAF
How to survive on land and sea - US naval institute press
Hunting with a Bow and arrow – Saxton pope
Improvised repairs to wheeled vehicles in the field (1943) – British MOD
Indian Fishing - Hilary Stewart
Inner navigation – Erik Jonsson
Into the primitive - Dale martin
Knife Making - Bo Bergman
Knowledge of the Ancestors - Ryan Leech
Life at the extremes the science of survival - Frances Ashcroft
Living off nature - Judy Urquhart
Living off the land, a manual of bushcraft - Salt (Melbourne, Vic.)
Manifold destiny - Chris Maynard & Bill Scheller
Medicine for Mountaineering and other wilderness activities - James A. Wilkerson
Mini Technology Handbook Volume 1 & 2 – B.R. Saubolle & S.J. Bachmann
Minor surgical procedures in remote areas – Medecins San frontiers
Mountainman crafts and skills - David Montgomery
Moving Heavy Things - Jan Adkins
Naked into the wilderness - John & geri Mcpherson
Naked into the wilderness 2 - John & Geri McPhearson
Never say die – Canadian Military
New way of the wilderness - Calvin Rutstrum
No need to Die - Eddie McGee
Northern Bushcraft - Mors kochanski
Nutrition in medicine - Simon P. Allison
On Your own in the Wilderness – Colonel Townsend Whelen
Outdoor safety and survival - British Columbia outdoor recreation division
Outdoor survival skills - Larry Dean Olsen
Outdoors survival handbook - Ray Mears
Paradise Below Zero - Calvin Rutstrum
Participating in Nature - Thomas J. Elpel
Passport to Survival - Esther Dickey
Performing in extreme environments - Lawrence E. Armstrong
Physiology of Man In The Desert - E. F. Adolph
Pioneering projects - John Thurman
Plants with a Purpose - Richard Mabey, Marjorie Blamey
Poachers and poaching - John Watson
Polar Expeditions – Rachel Duncan
Practicing Primitive: A Handbook of Aboriginal Skills - Steven M. Watts
Primary Diagnosis & Treatment, in Developing countries - Daniel E. Fountain
Primitive outdoor skills - Richard L Jamison
Primitive Technology - Erret Callahan
Primitive technology 2, Ancestral Skills - society for primitive technology
Primitive technology, a book of earth skills - society for primitive technology
Ranger Medical Handbook –US Army Special Operations Command
Recipes for roughing it easy - Dian Thomas
Rogers Herbal Manual – Robert Dale Rogers
Roughing it easy 2 - Dian Thomas
Roughing it easy – Dian Thomas
Sahara overland - Chris Scott
Sanitation Without Water - Uno Winblad and Wen Kitama
Saskatchewan trapper training manual – Saskatchewan Education Northern division
Scouting for boys first edition - Baden Powell
Search and Rescue Survival Training AF Reg 64-4 - US department of the air force
Secrets of Eskimo Skin Sewing - Edna Wilder
Shelters shacks and shanties - D.C. Beard
Shifts and Expedients of Camp Life for Travel & Exploration (1871) – W.B Lord & T. Baines
SkyGuide – Mark R. Chartrand
Snow Caves - Ernest Wilkinson
South Sea Lore - Kenneth P. Emory
Staying Alive – Maurice and Maralyn Bailey
Survival - Chris & Gretchen Janowsky
Survival advantage - Andrew Lane
Survival and Austere Medicine - The Remote, Austere, Wilderness and Third World Medicine Discussion Board
Survival arts of the primitive Paiutes - Margaret M. Wheat
Survival How to Prevail In Hostile Enviroments - Xavier Maniguet
Survival Psychology - John Leach
Survival skills of native California - Paul D. Cambell
Survival Skills of the North American Indians - Peter Goodchild
Survival Wisdom & Know How - the editors of stackpole books
Survival, how to prevail in hostile enviroments - Xavier Maniguet
Survive the savage sea - Dougal Robertson
Survive – Clay Blair, Jr.
Surviving Australia - Sorrel Wilby
Tanning at Home - W.B Scarbough
The Art of Survival – Cord Christian Troebst
The art of Tracking, The origin of science - Louis Liebenberg
The Art of Travel - Francis Galton
The axe Manual - Peter Mclaren
The Basic Essentials of Desert Survival - Dave Ganci
The best of Woodsmoke - Richard L. Jamison
The Book of Survival - Anthony Greenbank
The Bushmans handbook - H. A. Lindsay
The Call of the Birds – Charles S. Bayne
The complete book of heating with wood – Larry Gay
The complete book of self sufficiency - John Seymour
The Complete Guide to Edible wild plants,fruits and Nuts - Katie Letcher Lyle
The complete snow campers guide – Raymond Bridge
The essentials of archery - L.E. Stemmler
The foraging spectrum - Robert L. Kelly
The Fungal Pharmacy – Robert Rogers
The Humanure Handbook - Jospeh Jenkins
The Hunting peoples - Carleton S. Coon
The Jungle Hiker - Royal Air Force Welfare ceylon
The Natural Navigator - Tristan Gooley
The nature and subsequent uses of flint - John W. Lord
The Nature doctor – Dr. H. C. A. Vogel
The poachers handbook - Ian Niall
The Practical Mushroom encyclopaedia - peter jorden & steve wheeler
The Prairie Traveler handbook for overland expeditions (1859) – Randolph P. Marcy
The S.A.S. survival hand book - John Wisman
The Ship’s Medicine Chest and Medical Aid at Sea - U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
The Sling for sport and survival - Cliff Savage
The survival handbook - Raymond mears
The traditional bowers bible - numerous authors
The Trappers Bible - Dale martin
The Tribal Living Book - David levinson & David Sherwood
The Ultimate desert Handbook - Mark Johnson
The Ultimate encyclopaedia of Knots and rope work - Geoffry Budworth
The wilderness handbook – Paul Petzoldt
The Wilderness Route finder - Calvin Rutstrum
The Winter Wilderness Companion - Garret conover & Alexandra Conover
The Woodsman and Craft Book (1910) – Hoffman ??
Trees & Shrubs of the Okavango delta, Medicinal uses and Nutritional value, volume 1 & 2 - Veronica Roodt
Tropical Forest Expeditions - By Clive Jermy and Roger Chapman
Uteliv - Lars Fält
Vehicle Dependant Expedition Guide - Tom Sheppard
Village Technology Handbook - Volunteers in Technical Assistance
VinterFarden - Lars Fält
When All Hell Breaks Loose - Cody Lundin
Where there is no Dentist - Murray Dickson
Where there is no doctor - David Werner
Wild Food - Gordon Hillman & Ray Mears
Wild Food - Roger Phillips
Wilderness canoeing and camping – Cliff Jacobson
Wilderness Survival Guide - Monty Alford
Wilderness Survival Manual - BC Hydro / W.T. Floyd
Wildwood wisdom - Ellsworth Jaeger
Winter wise - Montague Alford
Wood Conserving Stoves a Design Guide - Volunteers in Technical Assistance
Woodsmanship – Bernard S. Mason
Woodsmoke - Richard & Linda Jamison
Wound Management - Jill A. David


Pamphlets & Booklets:

pioneering knots and lashings - Scout Troop 24
Sea survival - Ministry of defence
Arctic survival - Ministry of defence
Jungle Survival - Ministry of Defence
Basic wilderness survival in cold lacking snow - Mors Kochanski
The compass - Mors Kochanski
The two kilogram survival field kit manual - Mors Kochanski
Basic wilderness survival in deep snow - Mors Kochanski
Knife sharpening - Mors Kochanski
Top seven Bush Knots and the Use of the windlass - Mors Kochanski
tools of survival and survival training - Mors Kochanski
Basic netting - Mors Kochanski
Map use - Mors Kochanski
21 native edible plants - Mors Kochanski
the Inuit snow house - Mors Kochanski
Survival kit ideas - Mors Kochanski
The simple cattail doll - Mors Kochanski
Wilderness Steam Bath - Mors Kochanski
When you meet a Black Bear - Mors Kochanski
The Northern Night Sky - Mors Kochanski
Basic weather Knowledge - Mors Kochanski
Winter Survival in the backcountry - unknown
Winter Survival - BC Hydro
Fickminnie Overlevnad - Lars Fält
fox fire Numerous issues - numerous
A Therapeutic Approach to Arctic Survival Rations - Terence a. rogers, et al
Physiology of Acute Starvation in Man - George F. Cahill
Snow as a life Saver - Don Vockeroth & Jhon Amatt
Survival in the desert - USAF survival school
Alberta Wilderness Arts and Recreation 1-16
The Psychology of Lost - Kenneth Hill
Frictional Fire Making With a Flexible Fire Thong – Henry Balfour
Aboriginal Fire Making - Walter Hough
Cold Weather Operations Personal Survival And Safety guide – British MOD
Desert Weather Operations Personal Survival And Safety guide – British MOD


Videos:

Sticks as Tools and Implements – Mors Kochanski
Blades: Sharpening and Safe use – Mors Kochanski
Bush Knots – Mors Kochanski
Clothing and Sleeping Bags – Mors Kochanski
A Plant walk with Mors Kochanski Volumes 1 to 7 + master (8 DVD collection) – Mors Kochanski
3 Days at the River with nothing but our bare hands - Thomas J. Elpel
Mountain Meadows camping with almost nothing but the dog - Thomas J. Elpel
Mountain Lakes a survival fishing trip - Thomas J. Elpel
Canoe Camping on a song and a paddle - Thomas J. Elpel
SAS Survival Techniques (two VHS tapes) - John Wiseman
Woodsmoke: Primitive pottery - by Richard & Linda Jamison
Woodsmoke: Primitive cooking - by Richard & Linda Jamison
Woodsmoke: Fire volume 1 - by Richard & Linda Jamison
Survival and self reliance - by Mel DeWeese & Friends
Fire Volume 1 - by Tom Laskowski
Fire Volume 2 - by Tom Laskowski
Stone Age Living Skills, Fire, Food and Cordage - Jim Riggs & Robert Earthworm
Stone Age Living Skills, Hide Tanning - Robert Earthworm & Melvin Beattie
Stone Age Living Skills, Arrows - Brian James
Brain Tan Buckskin – John & Geri McPherson
Breaking Rock 1 - John & Geri McPherson
Breaking Rock 2 - John & Geri McPherson
Deer from Field to Freezer - John & Geri McPherson
How to construct an Asiatic Bow - John & Geri McPherson
Primitive Fire and Cordage - John & Geri McPherson
Primitive Semi-Permanent Shelters - John & Geri McPherson
Primitive Wilderness Skills Applied - John & Geri McPherson
The Primitive Bow and Arrow - John & Geri McPherson

[Wayland]

Darn it Stuart, I've just had to order yet another book today.

It's all your fault...

[drewdunnrespect]

oh and i thought i had dunn well wiith about ten books on the subject of bushcraft ooooops i think i have a long way to go

[Wayland]

98.6 Degrees the art of keeping your ass alive - cody lundin
A Collection of Indigenous Indonesian Technologies - Craig Thorburn
A cook on the wild side - Hugh fearnley-whittingstall
Adrift - Steven Callahan
Aids to Survival – W.A. Police Academy Command & Land Operations unit
Animal Traps and Trapping - James A. Bateman
Animals, tracks, trails and signs - R. Brown, M. Lawrence and J. pope
Arctic Manual - Vilhjalmur Stefanson
Army manual of Hygiene and Sanitation 1934 - MoD
Automotive operation and maintenance (for Pioneer roads) – E. Christopher Cone
Axe Manual of Peter McLaren – Peter McLaren
Basic Blacksmithing - David Harries and Bernhard Heer
Being your own Wilderness Doctor – Dr. E. Russel Kodet
Botany in a day - Thomas J. Elpel
British Trees in Colour - Cyril Hart, illus Charles Raymond
Bush Arts – Mors Kochanski
Bushcraft - Richard Graves
Bushcraft How to Live In The Jungle And Bush
Bushcraft Skills and How To Survive In The Wild - Anthonio Akkermans
Cache Lake Country - John J. Rowlands
Camp Life in the Woods and the Tricks of Trapping and Trap Making - William Hamilton Gibson
Campers' Guide to Woodcraft and Outdoor Life - Luis Henderson
Camping and woodcraft - Horace Kephart
Camping in the Old Style - Dave Wescott, David Wescott
Camplife in the woods and the tricks of trapping - W. Hamilton Gibson
Camplore and Woodcraft - Daniel Beard
Care of the Critically Ill Patient in the Tropics and Subtropics - David A.K. Watters
Complete book of survival - Eddie McGee
Country Woodcraft - Drew Langsner
Craftsmen of Necessity - Christopher williams
Culpepers herbal remedies - Nicholas Culpeper
Deadfalls and snares - A.R Harding
Deep Survival - Laurence Gonzales
Desert expeditions – Tom Sheppard
Desert Survival Tips, Tricks & Skills -Tony Nester
Ditch Medicine - Hugh L. Coffee
Don’t Die in The Bundu - Col. D. H. Grainger
Down but not out - Royal Canadian air force Survival training School
Dwelling Portably 1980-89 - Bert and Holly Davis
Dwelling Portably 1990-99 - Bert and Holly Davis
Dwelling Portably 2000-2008 - Bert and Holly Davis
Dwellings - Paul Oliver
Earth Knack - Bart & Robin Blankenship
Emergency Navigation - David Burch
Essential Bushcraft - Ray Mears
Essentials of Sea Survival - Frank Golden MD, PHD & Michael Tipton PHD
Expedition Medicine - The Royal Geographical society
Experiments on Knife sharpening - Department of materials science and engineering Iowa state university
Extreme survival - Dr Kenneth Kamler
Finding your way without a map or compass - Harrold Gatty
Food and Emergency Food in the Circumpolar Area - Kerstin Eidlitz
Food for free - Richard Mabey
Friluftsboken - Lars Fält
Gemsbok Bean & Kalahari truffle, traditional plant use by Jul'hoansi in N.East Namibia - Arno Leffers
Handbok Overlevnad - Lars Fält
Handbook of knots and splices – Charles Gibson
Hints to travellers Scientific and general (1883) – Royal Geographical society
Home manufacture of Furs and Skins - A.B. Farnham
Home tanning and leather making guide - A.B Farnham
Homegrown sun dwellings – Peter Van Dresser
How to **** in the woods - Kathleen Meyer
How to make tools - Christiansen & Bernard Zubrowski
How to stay alive in the woods – Bradford Angier
How to survive in the bush, on the coast, in the mountains of New Zealand – Lt B. Hildrith RNAF
How to survive on land and sea - US naval institute press
Hunting with a Bow and arrow – Saxton pope
Improvised repairs to wheeled vehicles in the field (1943) – British MOD
Indian Fishing - Hilary Stewart
Inner navigation – Erik Jonsson
Into the primitive - Dale martin
Knife Making - Bo Bergman
Knowledge of the Ancestors - Ryan Leech
Life at the extremes the science of survival - Frances Ashcroft
Living off nature - Judy Urquhart
Living off the land, a manual of bushcraft - Salt (Melbourne, Vic.)
Manifold destiny - Chris Maynard & Bill Scheller
Medicine for Mountaineering and other wilderness activities - James A. Wilkerson
Mini Technology Handbook Volume 1 & 2 – B.R. Saubolle & S.J. Bachmann
Minor surgical procedures in remote areas – Medecins San frontiers
Mountainman crafts and skills - David Montgomery
Moving Heavy Things - Jan Adkins
Naked into the wilderness - John & geri Mcpherson
Naked into the wilderness 2 - John & Geri McPhearson
Never say die – Canadian Military
New way of the wilderness - Calvin Rutstrum
No need to Die - Eddie McGee
Northern Bushcraft - Mors kochanski
Nutrition in medicine - Simon P. Allison
On Your own in the Wilderness – Colonel Townsend Whelen
Outdoor safety and survival - British Columbia outdoor recreation division
Outdoor survival skills - Larry Dean Olsen
Outdoors survival handbook - Ray Mears
Paradise Below Zero - Calvin Rutstrum
Participating in Nature - Thomas J. Elpel
Passport to Survival - Esther Dickey
Performing in extreme environments - Lawrence E. Armstrong
Physiology of Man In The Desert - E. F. Adolph
Pioneering projects - John Thurman
Plants with a Purpose - Richard Mabey, Marjorie Blamey
Poachers and poaching - John Watson
Polar Expeditions – Rachel Duncan
Practicing Primitive: A Handbook of Aboriginal Skills - Steven M. Watts
Primary Diagnosis & Treatment, in Developing countries - Daniel E. Fountain
Primitive outdoor skills - Richard L Jamison
Primitive Technology - Erret Callahan
Primitive technology 2, Ancestral Skills - society for primitive technology
Primitive technology, a book of earth skills - society for primitive technology
Ranger Medical Handbook –US Army Special Operations Command
Recipes for roughing it easy - Dian Thomas
Rogers Herbal Manual – Robert Dale Rogers
Roughing it easy 2 - Dian Thomas
Roughing it easy – Dian Thomas
Sahara overland - Chris Scott
Sanitation Without Water - Uno Winblad and Wen Kitama
Saskatchewan trapper training manual – Saskatchewan Education Northern division
Scouting for boys first edition - Baden Powell
Search and Rescue Survival Training AF Reg 64-4 - US department of the air force
Secrets of Eskimo Skin Sewing - Edna Wilder
Shelters shacks and shanties - D.C. Beard
Shifts and Expedients of Camp Life for Travel & Exploration (1871) – W.B Lord & T. Baines
SkyGuide – Mark R. Chartrand
Snow Caves - Ernest Wilkinson
South Sea Lore - Kenneth P. Emory
Staying Alive – Maurice and Maralyn Bailey
Survival - Chris & Gretchen Janowsky
Survival advantage - Andrew Lane
Survival and Austere Medicine - The Remote, Austere, Wilderness and Third World Medicine Discussion Board
Survival arts of the primitive Paiutes - Margaret M. Wheat
Survival How to Prevail In Hostile Enviroments - Xavier Maniguet
Survival Psychology - John Leach
Survival skills of native California - Paul D. Cambell
Survival Skills of the North American Indians - Peter Goodchild
Survival Wisdom & Know How - the editors of stackpole books
Survival, how to prevail in hostile enviroments - Xavier Maniguet
Survive the savage sea - Dougal Robertson
Survive – Clay Blair, Jr.
Surviving Australia - Sorrel Wilby
Tanning at Home - W.B Scarbough
The Art of Survival – Cord Christian Troebst
The art of Tracking, The origin of science - Louis Liebenberg
The Art of Travel - Francis Galton
The axe Manual - Peter Mclaren
The Basic Essentials of Desert Survival - Dave Ganci
The best of Woodsmoke - Richard L. Jamison
The Book of Survival - Anthony Greenbank
The Bushmans handbook - H. A. Lindsay
The Call of the Birds – Charles S. Bayne
The complete book of heating with wood – Larry Gay
The complete book of self sufficiency - John Seymour
The Complete Guide to Edible wild plants,fruits and Nuts - Katie Letcher Lyle
The complete snow campers guide – Raymond Bridge
The essentials of archery - L.E. Stemmler
The foraging spectrum - Robert L. Kelly
The Fungal Pharmacy – Robert Rogers
The Humanure Handbook - Jospeh Jenkins
The Hunting peoples - Carleton S. Coon
The Jungle Hiker - Royal Air Force Welfare ceylon
The Natural Navigator - Tristan Gooley
The nature and subsequent uses of flint - John W. Lord
The Nature doctor – Dr. H. C. A. Vogel
The poachers handbook - Ian Niall
The Practical Mushroom encyclopaedia - peter jorden & steve wheeler
The Prairie Traveler handbook for overland expeditions (1859) – Randolph P. Marcy
The S.A.S. survival hand book - John Wisman
The Ship’s Medicine Chest and Medical Aid at Sea - U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
The Sling for sport and survival - Cliff Savage
The survival handbook - Raymond mears
The traditional bowers bible - numerous authors
The Trappers Bible - Dale martin
The Tribal Living Book - David levinson & David Sherwood
The Ultimate desert Handbook - Mark Johnson
The Ultimate encyclopaedia of Knots and rope work - Geoffry Budworth
The wilderness handbook – Paul Petzoldt
The Wilderness Route finder - Calvin Rutstrum
The Winter Wilderness Companion - Garret conover & Alexandra Conover
The Woodsman and Craft Book (1910) – Hoffman ??
Trees & Shrubs of the Okavango delta, Medicinal uses and Nutritional value, volume 1 & 2 - Veronica Roodt
Tropical Forest Expeditions - By Clive Jermy and Roger Chapman
Uteliv - Lars Fält
Vehicle Dependant Expedition Guide - Tom Sheppard
Village Technology Handbook - Volunteers in Technical Assistance
VinterFarden - Lars Fält
When All Hell Breaks Loose - Cody Lundin
Where there is no Dentist - Murray Dickson
Where there is no doctor - David Werner
Wild Food - Gordon Hillman & Ray Mears
Wild Food - Roger Phillips
Wilderness canoeing and camping – Cliff Jacobson
Wilderness Survival Guide - Monty Alford
Wilderness Survival Manual - BC Hydro / W.T. Floyd
Wildwood wisdom - Ellsworth Jaeger
Winter wise - Montague Alford
Wood Conserving Stoves a Design Guide - Volunteers in Technical Assistance
Woodsmanship – Bernard S. Mason
Woodsmoke - Richard & Linda Jamison
Wound Management - Jill A. David

OK got those. Raise you these: (In the order that they sit on my shelf at the moment)

The Foxfire Book - Edited by Eliot Wigginton.
Tipis - Linda A Holley.
The Boy Mechanic.
The Boy Camper
Nature is your guide - Harold Gatty
Woodcraft and Camping _ Nessmuk
Build the perfect survival kit - John d. McCann
Lighten Up - Don Ladigin
Allen & Mike'd really cool Backpackin' book - Allen O'Bannon
Allen & Mike'd really cool Backcountry Ski book - Allen O'Bannon
Camping for Boys - H.W.Gibson
Tramp Camping - W.L.Pember
Romany hints for hikers - Gipsy Petulengro
Mountaincraft and Leadership - Eric Langmuir
Antlerknife - Ulf Avander
Lattitude hooks and azimuth rings - Dennis Fisher
The arts of the sailor - Hervey Garrett Smith
The Ashley book of knots - Clifford W. Ashley
Knot Craft - Des Pawson
The complete practical book of country crafts - Jack Hill
Celebrating Birch - North House Folk School
Carving and whittling the Swedish Style - Gert Ljungberg
Australian traditional Bush Crafts - Ron Edwards
Song of the paddle - Bill Mason
Animal tracks and signs - Preben Bang
The country life guide to edible and medicinal plants - Edmund Launert
North Atlantic Seafood - Alan Davidson
Cold Comfort - Glenn Randall
The field and forest handy book - Daniel Beard
The outdoor handbook - Hamlyn
Winterwise A backpacker Guide - John M. Dunn
The outdoor book - Jack Cox
Map Making - Frank Debenham
Mountain navigation - Peter Cliff
The Scouts outdoor cookbook -Christine & Tim Conners
Emergency Navigation - David Burch
Hardtack and Coffee - John D. Billings

There are a few more scattered around the house but there are a few more titles to look out for.

[Minotaur]

I found this list very useful indeed! many thanks!

Though i'm still looking for a small (pocket sized) book on solely tree types and what they are good for.

The only one I know of is the Collins Gem, but it not very good on uses. You might be better going over to the Dump, and looking at the scout stuff.

[kawasemi]

Wow - impressive.

I do have a passion for books (as well as Bushcraft!) so my wife will now be cursing you as there are a few here I'll be hunting out. Is your 'Scouting for Boys' the six parts or the first full edition? I have a first edition of B-P's 'little red book' - Aids to Scouting (the smuggled through the Boer lines version). Great reading.

Thanks for taking the time to share.

kawasemi

[Stuart]

comments in blue

Raise you these: (In the order that they sit on my shelf at the moment)

The Foxfire Book - Edited by Eliot Wigginton. I have foxfire 2, but I dont have the rest
Tipis - Linda A Holley.
The Boy Mechanic. I have this somewhere
The Boy Camper
Nature is your guide - Harold Gatty This is the same as 'finding your way without a map and compass' just a different title
Woodcraft and Camping _ Nessmuk got this one
Build the perfect survival kit - John d. McCann
Lighten Up - Don Ladigin
Allen & Mike'd really cool Backpackin' book - Allen O'Bannon
Allen & Mike'd really cool Backcountry Ski book - Allen O'Bannon got this one too, I love the illustrations, have to get the other one
Camping for Boys - H.W.Gibson
Tramp Camping - W.L.Pember I really want to get a copy of this, what do you think of it?
Romany hints for hikers - Gipsy Petulengro
Mountaincraft and Leadership - Eric Langmuir
Antlerknife - Ulf Avander
Lattitude hooks and azimuth rings - Dennis Fisher
The arts of the sailor - Hervey Garrett Smith
The Ashley book of knots - Clifford W. Ashley
Knot Craft - Des Pawson
The complete practical book of country crafts - Jack Hill
Celebrating Birch - North House Folk School
Carving and whittling the Swedish Style - Gert Ljungberg
Australian traditional Bush Crafts - Ron Edwards On my to get list
Song of the paddle - Bill Mason
Animal tracks and signs - Preben Bang
The country life guide to edible and medicinal plants - Edmund Launert
North Atlantic Seafood - Alan Davidson
Cold Comfort - Glenn Randall
The field and forest handy book - Daniel Beard
The outdoor handbook - Hamlyn
Winterwise A backpacker Guide - John M. Dunn
The outdoor book - Jack Cox
Map Making - Frank Debenham
Mountain navigation - Peter Cliff
The Scouts outdoor cookbook -Christine & Tim Conners
Emergency Navigation - David Burch I have this, its on the list I think
Hardtack and Coffee - John D. Billings

There are a few more scattered around the house but there are a few more titles to look out for.

of the above, which do you really rate?

[Scottishwanderer]

Awesome collection mate.

I'm thinking about getting Bushcraft by Mors Kochanski plus the pamphlets he wrote. Would you recomend them?

Mors makes Meares look like Grylls.

Also was thinking about 98.6 degrees and Naked into the wilderness.

Info would be greatly appreciated.

[Eragon21]

A very excellent collection you have there, I have printed off the list and will go about trying to get hold of a few books (have them delivered when SWMBO is not home as I have alot of books anyway).

I might have to invest in a kindle so the collection doesn't take up all the space left in my house.

As you reccomended earlier in the thread I think I will order Bushcraft by Mors Kochanski and perhaps buy a book every couple of months and look through the second hand bookstores to see if they stock any books of this type.

[Stuart]

I'm thinking about getting Bushcraft by Mors Kochanski plus the pamphlets he wrote. Would you recomend them?

Absolutely, I would highly recommend starting with Mors Kochanski's 'Bushcraft' and Pamphlets, my favourite pamphlets are "the two kilogram survival kit field manual" , " basic netting" & "the inuit snow house" I also like the "21 native wild edible plants"

Also was thinking about 98.6 degrees and Naked into the wilderness.

both excellent choices and all very different books by peope with very different backgrounds which is good, Cody is a student of Mors so you'll notice some similar approches but much of his stuff is new and original

As you reccomended earlier in the thread I think I will order Bushcraft by Mors Kochanski and perhaps buy a book every couple of months and look through the second hand bookstores to see if they stock any books of this type.

thats how I started

[Minotaur]

thats how I started

It really worth never working past a shop with books. The stuff you find!

[bgbushman]

Wow I thought I had a large collection!! Given your skills at finding great stuff. I wonder can you help. Years ago I downloaded a great little book about backwoodsmen. It had detailed info on everything about living in the forest. Felling, splitting. making a shavehorse etc. If you have any idea where I can find it again, could you please let me know.
Thanks
Happy Trails
Bgbushman

[bgbushman]

Brilliant collection Stuart, got many of the titles but some interesting looking ones to pursue. My pride and joy is a first edition Woodcraft by Ernest Thomas Setton although it never comes out into the field with me! Not sure what the author would make of that. Also not sure you are aware of it but I use a site called archive.org. loads of antique and rare books of interest to download for free, if you haven't seen it yet check it out well worth a look. Only wish I could be at the moot to see your collection.
Happy Trails
Mike