Includes bibliographical references and index. Mr. Seton has here developed the woodcraft principles set forth in his earlier interesting manual "The Birch-Bark Roll." By Woodcraft he means nature study, certain kinds of hunting, the art of camping and all good out-door athletics. Photography is recognized as a branch of nature work and campercraft is made to include the simplest methods of triangulation, starcraft, finding one's way, sign language, as well as many branches of Indian-craft. No writer deals with out-door life in so fascinating a way as Mr. Seton and the present development of his Woodcraft ideas has the strong appeal which marks all his work.--page one of jacket.
Contents:
Principles of scouting -- The Spartans of the West -- The purpose and laws of the Woodcraft Indians -- Honors and degrees and Indian names -- Woodland songs, dances, and ceremonies -- Suggested programs -- General scouting indoors -- Signaling and Indian signs -- Campercraft or the summer camp -- Games for the camp -- Health and woodland medicine -- Natural history -- Mushrooms, fungi or toadstools -- Forestry -- Some Indian ways -- Campfire stories of glimpses of Indian character.
OCLC:
(OCoLC)4836573
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)
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