The New Way of the Wilderness [antikvár]

Foreword3ince pre-revolutionary days Americans have answered the call of outdoor life. Such life challenges stamina, wits, and skill. It builds self-reliance, endurance, and lasting health, thus helping to keep our nation strong. No particular benefit or credit, however, accrues to those who merely follow a guide through the wilderness, relieved from all labor.A majority of the previous works on this subject have come from the pens of writers whose experience has been short, professionally conducted sorties merely into the edge of wild country, in permanent camps and public camp grounds, augmented by what they have read of others who have had like limited experience. Theirs is not the "way of the wilderness." Their methods are of little value to the red-blooded man who feels the call of the wild, to enter an unmapped wilderness, with no outfit other than that carried on his back, in a canoe, on pack horse or on dog sled.Calvin Rutstrum is a wilderness voyager who has spent much of his life in truly wild country, in fair weather and foul, in summer and winter. Rutstrum "savvies" the bush, and what he tells you in these pages will be a real help to those of you who plan to enter wild country for recreation or for other purposes. He points out in a practical manner the best ways to do things, the easiest way, the way to survive in emergencies, and the way to get real pleasures and benefits that such a life alone can bestow.Many of us cannot afford the luxuries of all-inclusive outfits, of guides, cooks, and packers, or of modern camps on the fringe. To such this book will appeal, for all of us can assemble a modern little outfit, right but light, and some simple and wholesome grub.