Forest Life Practical Meditations on Canoeing, Fishing, Hunting, and Bushcraft (Classic Outdoors)

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Forest bathers, readers of Cabin Porn and Your Cabin in the Woods, rejoice! This illustrated collection of classic writing by Sears is a perfect escape, packed with lyrical images and practical information.
</b> The Forest Life collects George Washington Sears' timeless odes to the joys of exploring the wilderness, edited for a modern audience. In text both practical and inspirational, Sears' provides enduring wisdom about trips into the woods and lakes, including equipment, campfires, fishing, camp cooking, traveling light, and canoes.
The original "forest bather," Sears wanted others to enjoy the woods as he did. His published Woodcraft in 1884 to help prepare skillful, self-reliant woodsman and to extol the restorative power of nature, writing "There are men who, on finding themselves alone in a pathless forest, become appalled, almost panic stricken. . . And there be some who plunge into an unbroken forest with a...