10. Sources for information.

10.1. Mailing-lists

The Primitive Skills Group.
This list, see section 1.
Flintforum
Send email to flintforum@mindspring.com and type "subscribe"in the message body.
Throwers list
See http://www.sonic.net/~quine/thrower.html

10.2. WWW

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
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

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

10.3. Books

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 [glacy1_AT_ix.netcom.com]

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]

10.4. Magazines and journals

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]

10.5. Video tapes.

The Woodsmaster Series (Dr. Ron Hood and Karen Hood.)

[glacy1_AT_ix.netcom.com]

10.6. Suggested reading

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 [glacy1_AT_ix.netcom.com]

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 [glacy1_AT_ix.netcom.com]

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 [glacy1_AT_ix.netcom.com]

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 [glacy1_AT_ix.netcom.com]

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 [glacy1_AT_ix.netcom.com]

The Bark Canoes and Skin Boats of North America (Edwin Tappan Adney and Howard I. Chapelle)

1964 Smithsonian Institution, Washinton, D.C. [glacy1_AT_ix.netcom.com]


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