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McAnally's (The Community Pub) => Author Craft => Topic started by: MClark on May 31, 2011, 01:39:16 AM

Title: Writer's Guide to Woodcraft
Post by: MClark on May 31, 2011, 01:39:16 AM: Hi,

Is there something like a writer's guide to woodcraft? Something that would cover all things forest related? Like which plants grow together or definitely will not grow together? Or what there is to eat and how to prepare it? Or is an Army survival guide my best bet for such questions?
Title: Re: Writer's Guide to Woodcraft
Post by: Snowleopard on May 31, 2011, 02:29:27 AM: Ah, the Army probably does have such a guide.
The Boy Scouts would also have a guide of what you can eat and what you can't.
A general survival guide geared to surviving in the woods would also help.
I'm afraid that I don't have any specific names for you.

Okay, went on Amazon and found this book. I hope it's of some help.

How to Stay Alive in the Woods: A Complete Guide to Food, Shelter, and Self-Preservation That Makes Starvation in the Wilderness Next to Impossible [Paperback]
Bradford Angier
Title: Re: Writer's Guide to Woodcraft
Post by: MClark on June 01, 2011, 02:27:07 PM: Hi,

I found an online PDF of the Army Survival Guide. Its pretty good and even has some color pictures at the back of edible and poisonous plants. Since it was free, I decided to go with ti.

Some extensive google searching also turned up some info.

Thanks for the reply.
Title: Re: Writer's Guide to Woodcraft
Post by: LizW65 on June 01, 2011, 10:18:39 PM: Euell Gibbons' Stalking the Wild Asparagus and its sequels are classics of what to harvest from the wild and how to prepare it.
Title: Re: Writer's Guide to Woodcraft
Post by: comprex on June 01, 2011, 10:21:39 PM: Do not forget the classic (http://www.amazon.com/How-Shit-Woods-Second-Environmentally/dp/0898156270). <-Amazon link

BTW, for a while there I thought you wanted a guide to harvesting, preparing and using lumber.
Title: Re: Writer's Guide to Woodcraft
Post by: meg_evonne on June 05, 2011, 03:51:02 PM: Those Boy Scout Manuals are amazing!
Title: Re: Writer's Guide to Woodcraft
Post by: Paynesgrey on June 14, 2011, 02:24:36 PM: The Boy Scout handbook is a great start. I'd also suggest the Foxfire books.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxfire_(magazine)

They cover everything from how to boil a hog to what roots you can eat and when to how to make moonshine to canning tomatoes to ghost stories to making your own small smelter and making flintlocks how to make that possum really tasty.
Title: Re: Writer's Guide to Woodcraft
Post by: Blaze on June 14, 2011, 02:32:57 PM: Safe and Sound: How Not to Get Lost in the Woods and How to Survive If You Do by Gordon Snow (Sep 1, 1997)

and

Ultimate Guide to Wilderness Living: Surviving with Nothing But Your Bare Hands and What You Find in the Woods by John McPherson and Geri McPherson (May 28, 2008)

But remember, different woodlands need different approaches! The Amazon jungle isn't the Pacific Northwest, although there are certain universal principals!
Title: Re: Writer's Guide to Woodcraft
Post by: Snowleopard on June 15, 2011, 01:49:06 AM: If it has really big teeth - run like mad!
Title: Re: Writer's Guide to Woodcraft
Post by: Paynesgrey on June 15, 2011, 02:33:18 AM: Never go into the woods without taking someone you can outrun.
Title: Re: Writer's Guide to Woodcraft
Post by: Snowleopard on June 15, 2011, 06:37:17 AM: Is that the woodcraft version of cannon fodder, PG?