Primitive Living, Self-Sufficiency, and Survival Skills
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Product Description
A field guide to primitive living skills
Spotlight Customer Reviews:
Summary:
Good overview book, but lacking in some parts
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This book is a good overview of primitive skills. I know how to make stone tools, (not well, but I at least know how it's done) and found the section on making stone tools extremely lacking to say the least. However, I learned a lot about subject I know nothing. If you know something about these subjects you might also find the secions lacking. It's an overview and a good book for beginers, but not for the more advanced. I was always told never to eat chokecherries because of the cyanide. The author tells you how to remove the cyanide. However, I'll let you be the one to eat the chokecherries.
Wyatt Kaldenberg
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Primitive Living, Self-Sufficiency, and Survival Skills
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This book appears to be a duplicate by another publisher of Elpel's book Participating in Nature: Thomas J. Elpel's Field Guide to Primitive Living Skills, which I have reviewed. Elpel's own website does not list this title, but does list Participating in Nature.
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Hard to read (for me)
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Comment:
I bought this book to learn, not to hear about how a bird flew passed the author's path in the morning. For me, there was too much of the authors feelings and jabber about the how he felt at a given moment. The word skills in the title led me to believe there are things to learn from this book. For me this book is a let down and dificult to read.
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this book is awesome
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got this one from my sister-in-law last x-mass. i really like this book. it is well written and has all kinds of crap in it about eating bears with your hands, catching things on fire and wilderness cooking recipies including my favorite, 'ash cakes'.
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