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Bushcraft Book Recommendations?

DormouseAtRest_25

There are lots and lots of "bushcraft" books available in the marketplace - which would be your recommendations?

They tend to cover outdoor skills and equipment such as: 

- cooking outdoors

- camping / bivvy

- every day carry (EDC - the essential kit you must not lose)

- firecraft

- first aid

- fishing

- foraging

- hammocks

- hiking

- knots

- lightweight folding equipment

- map reading / orienteering

- rucksack (and essential items)

- shelters

- stoves

- tarps

- tools and their maintenance

- track and sign

- woodcraft from natural materials (useful rather than decorative)

My preference is for books highlighting the "function over brand name" when it comes to equipment (I am more likely to notice an item has a NATO number than a glossy logo!).

I am not interested from a "prepper" or "hunting" emphasis. 

More so, I am interested in making a long day outdoors (UK: sea coastline / temperate woodlands / rural footpaths / foothills rather than mountains) a rich experience ...without carrying much kit, on a tight budget.

I have seen promising reviews for "Bushcraft: Outdoor Skills and Wilderness Survival Kochanski, Mors" - but have yet to be able to browse this title.

Any recommendations for other bushcraft titles?  Thank you.

 

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  • If you are only interested in day trips, then there is not much you need. Your main issue is just to be prepared for changeable weather.

    Knowing how make a fire by rubbing sticks together, which berries to eat, how to make a bivouac or snow hole, or a stretcher, or how to cross a glacier, and general rope work, is a bit unnecessary.

    All you need is to be able read a map, plus a compass. A decent phone will give your location if you want to cheat.

    Then it is just layered clothes, a hat, waterproofs, suitable footwear, and avoiding heat stroke or hypothermia. You can take some basic first aid kit if you want. Then just some food and water. Nuts, sultanas, cookies, fruit, are my preferred options as full of energy and not affected by heat. Nuts have salt which is good if sweating a bit. Chocolate is ok in winter. Sandwiches less good if they'll be warm for hours, although cheese or jam is ok .

    Keep your eyes open and be aware of the weather or tides.

    Unless in the highlands and islands you will be on footpaths.

    A thermos will give you soup or coffee, so no need for a gas camping stove. But if you want one just get something cheap from go outdoors, and shelter it from the wind.

    If you want to catch a fish and gut/cook/eat it, then that requires a pan, a knife and some way to catch it of course.

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  • If you are only interested in day trips, then there is not much you need. Your main issue is just to be prepared for changeable weather.

    Knowing how make a fire by rubbing sticks together, which berries to eat, how to make a bivouac or snow hole, or a stretcher, or how to cross a glacier, and general rope work, is a bit unnecessary.

    All you need is to be able read a map, plus a compass. A decent phone will give your location if you want to cheat.

    Then it is just layered clothes, a hat, waterproofs, suitable footwear, and avoiding heat stroke or hypothermia. You can take some basic first aid kit if you want. Then just some food and water. Nuts, sultanas, cookies, fruit, are my preferred options as full of energy and not affected by heat. Nuts have salt which is good if sweating a bit. Chocolate is ok in winter. Sandwiches less good if they'll be warm for hours, although cheese or jam is ok .

    Keep your eyes open and be aware of the weather or tides.

    Unless in the highlands and islands you will be on footpaths.

    A thermos will give you soup or coffee, so no need for a gas camping stove. But if you want one just get something cheap from go outdoors, and shelter it from the wind.

    If you want to catch a fish and gut/cook/eat it, then that requires a pan, a knife and some way to catch it of course.

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