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- Throwers list
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Survial and primitive skills training
- Woodlore Wilderness Bushcraft
- http://www.woodlore.co.uk
- Braintan.com
- http://www.braintan.com/
- Simlply Survival
- http://www.ssurvival.com/
- Equipped to Survive
- http://www.equipped.com/
- Hoods Woods
- http://www.survival.com/
- Boulder Outdoor Survival School
- http://www.boss-inc.com/
- Hollowtop Outdoor Primitive School (HOPS)
- http://www.hollowtop.com
- Swedish Survival Guild (Svenska Överlevnadssällskapet)
- http://www.overleva.se
Organization home pages
- Society of Primitime Technology
- http://www.hollowtop.com/spt_html/spt.htm
- Swedish Survival Guild (Svenska Överlevnadssällskapet)
- http://ww.overleva.se/
Informative sites
- Dining on the Wilds
- http://www.eee.org/bus/nature/
- Knife information
- http://www.sff.net/people/pff/knife.html
- Gränsfors Bruks Axebook
- http://www.gransfors-bruks.com/english/axebook/frontpge.htm
- Native Tech
- http://www.lib.uconn.edu/NativeTech/
- Nativeweb
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http://www.nativeweb.org
- The Food Insects Newsletter
- http://www.hollowtop.com/finl_html/finl.htm
- HOPS Contemporary Living Skills Page
- http://www.hollowtop.com/cls_html/cls.html
- Thrower home page
- http://www.sonic.net/~quine/thrower.html
- Knappers Anonymous
- http://www.ucs.mun.ca/~t64tr/knap.html
- Shadow-stick navigation
- http://lynx.neu.edu/m/mbennett/primnav.html
- Sun compass
- http://www.usscod.org/suncomp/
- Flip-flop winch
- http://www.cs.buffalo.edu/~goetz/eco.html
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Personal pages
- Scott Wiggins
- http://www.home-cov.demon.co.uk/bushcraft/intro.htm
- Phil Goetz site (lots of links)
- http://www.cs.buffalo.edu/~goetz/eco.html
The name of the person suggesting the book is placed in square
brackets ([]) after the listing.
Links marked "Amazon" are links to that book at
http://www.amazon.com. No advertising,
just convenience. These links are removed in the text version.
General skills.
A Snow Walker's Companion : Winter Trail Skills from the Far North
(Garrett Conover & Alexandra Conover)
McGraw-Hill, 1994, ISBN: 0070228922.
Amazon
[Par Leijonhufvud]
Northern Bushcraft (Mors Kochanski)
Lone Pine Pub., 1989. ISBN: 1551051222
Amazon
Good general book for the Northern regions.
[Par Leijonhufvud]
Wilderness Survival (Gregory J. Davenport)
Stackpole Books, 1998, ISBN: 0811729850.
Amazon
[Par Leijonhufvud]
The Outdoor Survival Handbook (Raymond Mears)
ISBN: 0312093594. Amazon [Scott Wiggins]
Outdoor Survival Skills (Larry Dean Olsen)
Chicago Review Press.
Amazon
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Plants.
Nature bound (pocket field guide)
Pacific Press Publishing Association. It has colored pictures and
discusses both edible and poisonous plants of the NW. It also has a
short section on survival. Good book overall. [Greg Davenport]
Edible Wild Plants, (Oliver Perry Medsger)
Covers all of North America, [glacy1_AT_ix.netcom.com]
Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants: Eastern and Central North America
(Roger Tory Peterson, Lee A. Peterson)
Houghton Mifflin Co (Pap),
ISBN: 039531870X,
Amazon.
First Aid.
Medicine for mountaineering (James Wilkerson)
The Mountaineers, 1993.
Amazon
[Greg Davenport]
Wilderness Medicine - Beyond First Aid, 4th ed (William W.
Forgey)
Ics Books, 1997, ISBN: 0934802939
Amazon
Crafts
Leather: Preparation & Tanning by Traditional Methods (Lotta Rahme)
Caber Press, 1996, ISBN: 1887719008 Amazon
An excellent book that describes several methods for tanning hides.
Goes into th e science behind the techniques.
"Deerskins into Buckskins" (Matt Richards)
Backcountry Pub, 1997, ISBN: 096586720X,
Amazon
[Rob Chatburn]
American Indian Archery (Reginald and Gladys Laubin)
1980 University of Oklahoma Press
Amazon
(hardcover)
[glacy1_AT_ix.netcom.com]
Bulletin of Primitive Technology
Published by The Society of Primitive Technology, Box 905, Rexburg,
ID 83441, USA http://www.hollowtop.com/spt_html/spt.html
[Par Leijonhufvud]
Wilderness Way Magazine
[Jean-Philippe Soule]
The Woodsmaster Series (Dr. Ron Hood and Karen Hood.)
[glacy1_AT_ix.netcom.com]
The name of the person suggesting the book is placed in square
brackets ([]) after the listing.
New Links marked "Amazon" are links to that book at
http://www.amazon.com. No advertising,
just convenience. These links are removed in the text version.
General skills.
Arctic manual (Vilhjalmur Stefansson)
Macmillian, 1945. This is the manual that one of the early 20th
century arctic explorers wrote for the US Air Force. Inspired by
Inuit techniques. [Par Leijonhufvud]
The Survival Handbook (Raymond Mears)
ISBN: 1-85648-180-8
[Scott Wiggins]
Camping and Woodcraft (Horace Kephart)
(1917) Reprint 1988, Univ. of Tennessee.
Amazon
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Bushcraft, (R. Graves.)
[glacy1_AT_ix.netcom.com]
How To Survive On Land And Sea, (Frank C. Craighead, Jr. and John J. Craighead)
Fourth Edition, Naval Institute Press, 1984, ISBN # 0-87021-278-8
Amazon
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Survival, US Army Field Manual 21-76 1992.
[glacy1_AT_ix.netcom.com]
Best of Woodsmoke : A Manual of Primitive Outdoor
Skills (Richard L. Jamieson)
Horizon Pub. Co., 1983, ISBN 0882902032,
Amazon
"Woodsmoke" (Richard and Linda Jamison)
[glacy1_AT_ix.netcom.com]
"The Best of Woodsmoke" (Richard Jamison.)
A Manual of Primitive Outdoor Skills Compiled from Woodsmoke Journal.
[glacy1_AT_ix.netcom.com]
Be Expert With Map and Compass (Bjorn Kjellstrom)
MacMillan General Reference, 1994, ISBN: 0020292651
Amazon
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Naked Into The Wilderness (John and Jeri Mcpherson.)
[glacy1_AT_ix.netcom.com]
Naked Into The Wilderness 2: Primitive Wilderness Skills, Applied and
Advanced
(John and Jeri Mcpherson.)
Prairie Wolf, 1996, ISBN 0-89745-984-9
[glacy1_AT_ix.netcom.com]
Earth Knack- Stone Age Skills for the 21st Century (Bart and Robin
Blankenship)
Gibbs Smith, 1996, ISBN 0-87905-733-5
Amazon
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Tribal Living Handbook, (David Levinson).
First published in 1984 (ISBN 0-933472-84-6)
revised version published in 1993 (ISBN 1-55566-104-1).
[glacy1_AT_ix.netcom.com]
Plants.
Vilda växter som mat och medicin (Stefan Källman)
ICA Forlag AB. Good book on useful plants in the boreal zone.
Includes nutritional information. In Swedish, but a translation into
English is supposedly planned.
ISBN: 91-534-1690-2
[Pär Leijonhufvud]
Botany in a Day, Thomas Elpel's Herbal Field Guide to Plant Families. (Thomas Elpel)
Published by Hollowtop Outdoor Primitive School
[glen monaghan]
The Tree Identification Book, (George Symonds)
Quill press, NY. 1974, ISBN 0688050395
Amazon
[glen monaghan]
Crafts
Skinn: Garvning Och Beredning Med
Traditionella Metoder (Rahme, Lotta & Hartman, Dag)
LT Förlag, 1991
An excellent book that describes several methods for tanning hides.
Goes into the science behind the techniques. Also available in English
(Leather: Preparation & Tanning by Traditional Methods).
"Wet-Scrape Braintanned Buckskin : A Practical Guide to Home Tanning and Use"
(Steven Edholm and Tamara Wilder)
Paleotechnics, 1997, ISBN 0965496546.
Amazon
[Par Leijonhufvud]
Blue Mountain Buckskin (Jim Riggs)
The Indian Tipi - Its history, Construction, and Use (Reginald and Gladys Laubin)
1957 Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 1971 Ballantine Books
Amazon
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The Bark Canoes and Skin Boats of North America (Edwin Tappan Adney and Howard I. Chapelle)
1964 Smithsonian Institution, Washinton, D.C.
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