"Campfire Kev" on August 16th, 2010

A selection of Bushcraft Books available currently from Amazon.co.uk, including titles from Ray Mears etc.

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"Campfire Kev" on August 16th, 2010

A selection of Canoeing Books available currently from Amazon.co.uk:

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"Campfire Kev" on March 31st, 2010

Waterwalker
A classic canoe documentary from the early 1980’s, still made available from the Canadian National Film Board:
“This feature-length documentary follows naturalist Bill Mason on his journey by canoe into the Ontario wilderness. The filmmaker and artist begins on Lake Superior, then explores winding and sometimes tortuous river waters to the meadowlands of the river’s source. [...]

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"Campfire Kev" on January 10th, 2010

POTP reader Colin Tennant provided this piece on some background to early ‘bushcraft writer’, the naturalist Fred J. Speakman (his books covered in our post here). He’s just completed a 90 minute DVD of a talk with Peter Read, a naturalist and resident of Epping Forest. Peter met Fred when he was eighteen and [...]

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"Campfire Kev" on October 27th, 2009

I read a fantastic book as a boy call “A Forest By Night” by Fred J. Speakman and ever since have had a special affection for badgers. In the book which I thoroughly recommend, although it’s near impossible to get hold of now, the author, recently bereaved and injured during the second world [...]

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