Nessmuk

Posted by: johndavid

Nessmuk - 11/22/08 12:57 PM

Nessmuk (AKA George Sears) 1821-1890
"Woodcraft" on line
http://www.zianet.com/jgray/nessmuk/woodcraft/contents.html

"Adirondack Letters" on line
http://robroy.dyndns.info/books/gws/N.HTM

I much prefer "Adirondack Letters" though I enjoy both works very much.

Nessmuk was annoyingly cranky and conceited about giving advice, a trait often found to this day among supposed "experts," though increasingly limited to amateurs of the species.

Horace Kephart's "Camping and Woodcraft" is a much finer and more intelligent work that appeared about a generation later
Posted by: OregonMouse

Re: Nessmuk - 11/24/08 06:57 PM

Thanks for the link to the Nessmuk books, johndavid! I haven't read any of his but have heard about them.

I grew up with Kephart's Camping and Woodcraft, though.