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Trade Paperback. A new copy. Camp, explore, hike, discover, learn woodcraft--get outdoors and be at home in nature all through the year! There's so much to do and discover with this truly Handy Book as a guide. Written for children in 1882, and valuable for kids or adults today, the author suggests projects, crafts, plans, games, and schemes for camping trips, hikes, or the backyard. It contains plans for 16 kinds of kites and hot-air balloons and fishing tackle, how to make and stock an aquarium, to construct a water telescope and how to camp out without a tent. Or in a hut made from pine boughs. How to build 10 kinds of boats, including a flatboat with a covered cabin. Iceboats, too. Squirt guns with astonishing range and authority. One-person canoes. Bird calls. Learn to teach a dog to retrieve. And much more. Daniel Carter Beard was a founder of the scouting movement in America and wanted kids to enjoy the out-of-doors as much as he did. In his books, Beard helped preserve invaluable folkways that can instill self-reliance and a deeper appreciation of nature--all while having a world of fun. This is truly a book for all ages--including adults.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.8.

Unbound. Zustand: Very Good. Photoengravings (illustrator). 1st. full page engraving of two fishermen in a rowboat; captioned: Casting for small-mouthed blackfish in the Pennsylvania Lakes Size: 9" x 13".

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. B/W Illus (illustrator). 1st. new, revised edition; red c w/black titles; moderate shelf rubbing and lite sunning; 607 clean, unmarked pages.

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1900. XIV, 295 S. Mit zahlr. Abb. im Text u. auf Taf. (19,5 x 14,5 cm). Illustr. OLn. mit goldgeprägtem RTitel. Fair weather ideas (Tree-top club-houses; how to capture and trap small live animals; the back-yard zoo; a back-yard fish-pond; pigeon and bantam coops; how to make a back-yard aviary; etc., etc.) / Rainy weather ideas (A home-made circus; good games with toothpicks and matches; fun with scissors and pasteboard and paper; how to prepare and give a boys' chalk talk; etc., etc.). - Mit Register. - Daniel Carter ("Uncle Dan") Beard (1850-1941), amerikanischer Illustrator, Autor, Sozialreformer, gründete 1905 die Vereinigung "Sons of Daniel Boone", die später mit den "Boy Scouts of America (BSA) vereinigt wurde. - Einband leicht berieben u. bestoßen; sonst gutes Exemplar.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. B/W Illus (illustrator). 1st. First Edition, First Printing; red c w/pictorial boards, some scratching, lite wear at tips; ownr's insc.; 538 clean, unmarked pages.