Sheltersshacks And Shanties

Author : Daniel Carter Beard
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1465595945
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shelters, Shacks and Shanties written by Daniel Carter Beard and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2015-09-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ÊIf my present reader happens to be a Boy Scout or a scout-master who wants the scouts to build a tower for exhibition purposes, he can do so by following the directions here given, but if there is real necessity for haste in the erection of this tower, of course we cannot build one as tall as we might where we have more time. With a small tower all the joints may be quickly lashed together with strong, heavy twine, rope, or even wire; and in the wilderness it will probably be necessary to bind the joints with pliable roots, or cordage made of bark or withes; but as this is not a book on woodcraft we will suppose that the reader has secured the proper material for fastening the joints of the frame of this signal-tower and he must now shoulder his axe and go to the woods in order to secure the necessary timber. First let him cut eight straight polesÑthat is, as straight as he can find them. These poles should be about four and one half inches in diameter at their base and sixteen and one half feet long. After all the branches are trimmed off the poles, cut four more sticks each nine feet long and two and a half or three inches in diameter at the base; when these are trimmed into shape one will need twenty six or seven more stout sticks each four and one half feet long for braces and for flooring for the platform.

Author : Daniel Carter Beard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shelters, Shacks, and Shanties written by Daniel Carter Beard and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jonathan Horning
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 080271773X
Total Pages : 65 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Simple Shelters written by Jonathan Horning and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-11-03 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brief introduction to the construction and history of basic shelters. Shelter is one of our most basic needs, and throughout history mankind has been highly inventive in meeting it. Simple Shelters introduces the principal types of wooden and stick-frame structures built around the world, examining how their shape and form reflect cultural and cosmological considerations as well as climatic and utilitarian needs. Charting the gradual shift from the circular homes of the nomads to the rectangular ones favored by settled people, Jonathan Horning explores materials and construction principles over millennia, including the geodesic experiments of the twentieth century.

Author : Daniel Carter Beard
Publisher : Tebbo
ISBN 13 : 9781743444191
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shelters, Shacks, and Shanties written by Daniel Carter Beard and published by Tebbo. This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My 13-year-old boy scout asked for this book. After reading bits and pieces for a week or so, he enlisted his brother and some neighborhood boys to go build some 'shelters' in the woods down the street. They kept talking about the shelter and I figured it was typical exaggeration. A few of us adults walked down one day to see the shelter -- WOW! It was impressive -- and it stood up to the recent ice storms that left people without power for weeks. All built with branches and saplings in the woods. The book inspired them. Dense, informative and readable: It is hard to believe that a book published almost 100 years ago is still very relevant and practically useful today. It is very very dense yet still very readable. It offers much more information than I originally anticipated. I am amazed by what shelters can be built with some simple tools. The author, one of the founders of Boy Scouts of America, actually lived in a log house built by himself. I suspect most of the content is from the author's own experience in building various kinds of architecture from simple shelters to fairly sophisticated houses. Modern lightweight tents may be the primary temporary outdoor shelters nowadays, but wood shelters are still loved by hikers, campers. This book is invaluable for educating kids to gain some basic carpentry and outdoor knowledge, nurture their sense of independence and responsibility and offer them the tremendous joy of staying in what built by themselves.

Author : Daniel Carter Beard
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN 13 : 1567923526
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book of Camp-Lore and Woodcraft written by Daniel Carter Beard and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 2008 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Dan Beard, founder of the American Scouting movement, every scout worth his merit badge was expected to read this book, which includes instructions on how to build a fire, cook venison, prepare for a camping trip, use an axe and a saw, and more.

Author : George Szanto
Publisher : Brindle and Glass
ISBN 13 : 1927366097
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bog Tender written by George Szanto and published by Brindle and Glass. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tribute to nature’s influence on the creative process, Bog Tender is a stunning memoir that explores nature and the act of writing, and where the two intersect. Accomplished fiction author George Szanto lives and writes on a bog that cuts his property in two. Rather than filling in the wetland, he has embraced it as a site of inspiration. Pieced together in 12 chapters—one for each month of the year—this enchanting narrative explores how Szanto’s writing process is affected by the bog’s transformations throughout the seasons. Through each chapter, the author searches for the moments of greatest consequence to him, from his parents’ escape from Hitler’s Vienna to his time spent studying in Germany, and from meeting his future wife and becoming a parent, to his adventures in Mexico. Set in a place where city is left behind for rural space, Bog Tender is about home and the intricate connections that evolve under and above the water.

Author : Daniel Carter Beard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.QZ/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What to Do and how to Do it written by Daniel Carter Beard and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A manual of past times, which includes instructions for making kites, fishing poles, a blow gun, boats, and theatrical costumes, and for raising dogs, stuffing animals, stocking an aquarium, and camping. Contains small sections on recreational mind-reading and fortune-telling.

Author : David Stiles
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1461746744
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Forts for Kids written by David Stiles and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2011-05-17 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dreamer's handbook for kids—and parents—offering practical results All kids love the idea of a hideaway—a place that is theirs, no parents allowed. But how on earth can they actually build one? In Forts for Kids, an inspirational yet practical guide, David Stiles, the most trusted authority on DIY building projects, shows them how. Assuming no previous experience from the fort builder, the book starts with the basics for kids and their parents: how to buy wood, and essential skills such as sawing and nailing. It includes a brief history of forts and more than twenty projects ranging from the simple (a blanket and umbrella fort) to the more challenging (a stockade fort). The book even includes forts made of snow, sand, or branches. An accessories section features projects that can be made in just a few hours, such as a slide, swing, catapult, periscope, cannon, and water balloon launcher.

Author : Daniel Carter Beard
Publisher : anboco
ISBN 13 : 3736409818
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shelters, Shacks and Shanties written by Daniel Carter Beard and published by anboco. This book was released on 2016-08-18 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As this book is written for boys of all ages, it has been divided under two general heads, "The Tomahawk Camps" and "The Axe Camps," that is, camps which may be built with no tool but a hatchet, and camps that will need the aid of an axe. The smallest boys can build some of the simple shelters and the older boys can build the more difficult ones. The reader may, if he likes, begin with the first of the book, build his way through it, and graduate by building the log houses; in doing this he will be closely following the history of the human race, because ever since our arboreal ancestors with prehensile toes scampered among the branches of the pre-glacial forests and built nestlike shelters in the trees, men have made themselves shacks for a temporary refuge. But as one of the members of the Camp-Fire Club of America, as one of the founders of the Boy Scouts of America, and as the founder of the Boy Pioneers of America, it would not be proper for the author to admit for one moment that there can be such a thing as a camp without a camp-fire, and for that reason the tree folks and the "missing link" whose remains were found in Java, and to whom the scientists gave the awe-inspiring name of Pithecanthropus erectus, cannot be counted as campers, because they did not know how to build a camp-fire; neither can we admit the ancient maker of stone implements, called eoliths, to be one of us, because he, too, knew not the joys of a camp-fire. But there was another fellow, called the Neanderthal man, who lived in the ice age in Europe and he had to be a camp-fire man or freeze! As far as we know, he was the first man to build a camp-fire. The cold weather made him hustle, and hustling developed him. True, he did cook and eat his neighbors once in a while, and even split their bones for the marrow; but we will forget that part and just remember him as the first camper in Europe.

Author : D. C. Beard
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486152421
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shelters, Shacks, and Shanties written by D. C. Beard and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-06-11 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wealth of information and advice on building everything from a bark teepee and tree-top house to a log cabin and beaver mat hut. 332 black-and-white illustrations.