Camping and Woodcraft: A Handbook for Vacation Campers and for Travelers in the Wilderness: Handbook Vacation Campers Travelers Wilderness - Softcover

Horace Kephart

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0870495569 ISBN 13: 9780870495564

Publisher: University of Tennessee Press, 1988

Synopsis

Provides the outdoorsman with a comprehensive manual covering every aspect of camping and the art of surviving in the wilderness.

About this title

About the Author:

Jim Casada, who has provided an informative introduction to this edition, is professor of history at Winthrop College. He has written numerous articles on sporting figures and outdoor literature and is editor-at-large for Sporting Classics and contributing editor for Fly Fishing Heritage. Before coming the mountains, Horace Kephart (1862-1931) served as librarian of the prestigious Mercantile Library in St. Loius. His significant work, however, was done after he came to live in the Southern Appalachians in 1904. He played important roles in the establishment of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and the Appalachian Trail.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0870495569
• ISBN 13: 9780870495564
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 912