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Shelters, Shacks, and Shanties: The Classic Guide to Building Wilderness Shelters (Dover Crafts: Building & Construction)
Essential reading for anyone interested in learning about constructing their own wilderness shelter! Get the know-how you need to build rustic outdoor shelters, from a bark teepee to a log cabin.
This excellent hands-on guide by one of the founders of the Boy Scouts of America contains a wealth of practical instruction and advice on how to build everything from a bark teepee and a tree-top house to a log cabin and a sod house. No professional architects are needed here, and knowing how to use an axe is more important than possessing carpentry skills.
More than 300 of the author’s own illustrations and a clear, easy-to-follow text enable campers to create such lodgings as half-cave shelters, beaver mat huts, birchbark shacks, over-water camps, a Navajo hogan, and a pole house. Additional chapters provide information on how to use an axe, split and notch logs, make a fireplace, and even build appropriate gateways to log houses, game preserves, ranches, and other open areas.
An invaluable book for scouts, campers, hikers, and hunters of all ages, this guide and its fascinating collection of outdoor lore “still has intrinsic value,” said Whole Earth Magazine, and will be of keen interest to any modern homesteader.- Get all the knowledge you need to construct your own wilderness lodgings, with step-by-step guidance from this easy-to-follow handbook on building camp lodgings. Learn how to make a bark teepee, tree-top house, log cabin, pole house, sod house, half-cave shelters, beaver mat huts, birchbark shacks, over-water camps, a Navajo hogan, and more.
- Perfect for outdoorsy types of all ages: scouts, campers, hikers, hunters, and wilderness survivalists! Pick up valuable skills from one of the founders of the Boy Scouts of America, Daniel Carter Beard.
- Over 300 illustrations! Visualize each step of your building project with the help of detailed illustrations. Follow along closely and get creative with this classic instruction guide for roughing it!
- You don’t need any professional architectural experience or special carpentry skills to put this book’s information into action. Additional chapters provide information on how to use an axe effectively and split and notch logs the right way for the best results, make a fireplace, and build gateways for game preserves, ranches, and other open areas.
- Ideal for modern homesteaders! Master the art of bushcraft shelter construction–create dynamic structures that are not only functional but aesthetically pleasing as well.
- Discover more than just building techniques in Shelters, Shacks, and Shanties. Explore fascinating outdoor lore that’s still relevant today.
- An ideal gift for anyone who wants to explore the great outdoors and learn traditional building methods for survival shelters and more!
Originally published in 1914, Shelters, Shacks and Shanties presents step-by-step tutelage on all aspects of outdoor accommodation.
D. C. Beard explains how to construct a variety of worry-free shelters appropriate to a natural environment that is by turns both friendly and foreboding. Included are a sod house for the lawn, a treetop house, over-water camps, and an American log cabin. Fully recognizing that the outdoorsman builds a shelter with the intention of inhabiting it, Beard explains how to build hearths and chimneys, notched log ladders, and even how to rig secret locks.
Illustrated throughout with instructional line drawings, Shelters, Shacks and Shanties harkens back to the can-do spirit of the American frontier and belongs in the knapsack of every modern scout, young and old alike.
$14.00Add to cart Add to cart$15.00The Archetype of the Apocalypse: Analyzing the Pandemics of Racism, COVID-19, and Climate Change from a Jungian Perspective Paperback – April 26, 2023
What we are witnessing in the present time in human history, in the 2020s, is a vortex of intersecting pandemics — jolting revelations that are unfolding with a terrific energy and force — so much so that we cannot ignore or escape them. These include worldwide pandemics of racism, COVID-19, and climate change. This book argues that all of these swirling pandemics are manifestations of the archetype of the Apocalypse, which is constellating now in a very powerful way. Any one of these phenomena could swallow humanity whole as a species. Altogether, they represent a seemingly overwhelming challenge for us to meet over the next century of life on earth. If humanity cannot meet the challenge of these combined negative forces, it could simply perish. A multilayered intersecting set of challenges such as this has never before occurred in human history. We must therefore be alert to what is going on, and consciously mediate these threats, both individually and collectively. They offer an unprecedented opportunity for humanity to evolve and grow psychologically, both individually and collectively, nationally, and globally
- ASIN : B0C2SFPMXP
- Publisher : Independently published (April 26, 2023)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 253 pages
- ISBN-13 : 979-8386731243
- Item Weight : 15.8 ounces
- Dimensions : 6 x 0.57 x 9 inches
$15.00Add to cart Add to cart$20.00Together: The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World Audio Book
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Together: The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World by Vivek H Murthy M.D Audio book annotation. You can order full audiobook here in comments Female Voice by E.M. for www.Noahsarkshop.com community members and likeminded people https://communityfinders.com/community-liv… == https://communityfinders.com /community-living-books/ Instant New York Times Bestseller! The book we need NOW to avoid a social recession, Murthy’s prescient message is about the importance of human connection, the hidden impact of loneliness on our health, and the social power of community. Humans are social creatures: In this simple and obvious fact lies both the problem and the solution to the current crisis of loneliness. In his groundbreaking book, the 19th surgeon general of the United States Dr. Vivek Murthy makes a case for loneliness as a public health concern: a root cause and contributor to many of the epidemics sweeping the world today from alcohol and drug addiction to violence to depression and anxiety. Loneliness, he argues, is affecting not only our health, but also how our children experience school, how we perform in the workplace, and the sense of division and polarization in our society. But, at the center of our loneliness is our innate desire to connect. We have evolved to participate in community, to forge lasting bonds with others, to help one another, and to share life experiences. We are, simply, better together. The lessons in Together have immediate relevance and application. These four key strategies will help us not only to weather this crisis, but also to heal our social world far into the future. Spend time each day with those you love. Devote at least 15 minutes each day to connecting with those you most care about. Focus on each other. Forget about multitasking and give the other person the gift of your full attention, making eye contact, if possible, and genuinely listening. Embrace solitude. The first step toward building stronger connections with others is to build a stronger connection with oneself. Meditation, prayer, art, music, and time spent outdoors can all be sources of solitary comfort and joy. Help and be helped. Service is a form of human connection that reminds us of our value and purpose in life. Checking on a neighbor, seeking advice, even just offering a smile to a stranger six feet away, all can make us stronger. During Murthy’s tenure as Surgeon General and during the research for Together, he found that there were few issues that elicited as much enthusiastic interest from both very conservative and very liberal members of Congress, from young and old people, or from urban and rural residents alike. Loneliness was something so many people have known themselves or have seen in the people around them. In the book, Murthy also shares his own deeply personal experiences with the subject–from struggling with loneliness in school, to the devastating loss of his uncle who succumbed to his own loneliness, as well as the important example of community and connection that his parents modeled. Simply, it’s a universal condition that affects all of us directly or through the people we love—now more than ever. 10.22.2025 ==== We are doing everything wrong. Imagine a society in which small groups of people were rewarded, not for defeating another group, but for providing aid to another group. American Football in which one side decided to not defend their goal, rather, they invited the other side to a book club and a picnic at their end of the playing field. We can go to Mars, but we just can’t figure out how to end poverty. Too hard. Too mysterious. Masculinity is not measured by how many people you boss, but by how many people you help. Mutual Aid. Q: What is Direct Democracy? A: People live in groups. Direct democracy, depending on how this term is defined, is the best method for groups of people to make collective decisions. By direct democracy, I don’t mean majority rule through voting. Direct democracy is best practiced using consensus decision-making. There is no such thing as “representative democracy.” This is a liberal bourgeois term that doesn’t mean anything because democracy is not a hierarchical system of power, and every attempt to shift collective power to individuals has created an oligarchy. Delegates are different from representatives in that delegates are not elected and they aren’t given power of decision-making. Delegates negotiate and coordinate, whereas representatives are invested with unchecked decision-making power. Capitalist-state structural violence leads to social murder. The denial of food and healthcare, blatant examples. To escape alone is impossible. Turn off the TV and ask a friend for help. Cult deprogramming. We can go to Mars, but we just can’t figure out how to end poverty. Too hard. Too mysterious. Masculinity is not measured by how many people you boss, but by how many people you help. Mutual Aid
$20.00Contact UsAdd to cart$25.00Earth-Sheltered Houses: How to Build an Affordable Underground Home (Mother Earth News Wiser Living Series, 4) Paperback – Illustrated, April 3, 2006 by Rob Roy (Author)
The only how-to manual on the subject directed to mainstream owner-builders
An earth-sheltered, earth-roofed home has the least impact upon the land of all housing styles, leaving almost zero footprint on the planet.
Earth-Sheltered Houses is a practical guide for those who want to build their own underground home at moderate cost. It describes the benefits of sheltering a home with earth, including the added comfort and energy efficiency from the moderating influence of the earth on the home’s temperature-keeping it warm in the winter and cool in the summer-low maintenance, and the protection against fire, sound, earthquake and storm afforded by the earth. Extra benefits from adding an earth or other living roof option include greater longevity of the roof substrate, fine aesthetics, and environmental harmony.
The book covers all of the various construction techniques involved including details on planning, excavation, footings, floor, walls, framing, roofing, waterproofing, insulation and drainage. Specific methods appropriate for the inexperienced owner-builder are a particular focus and include:
pouring one’s own footings and/or floor
the use of dry-stacked (surface-bonded) concrete block walls
post-and-beam framing
plank-and-beam roofing, and
drainage methods and self-adhesive waterproofing membranes.
The time-tested, easy-to-learn construction techniques described in Earth-Sheltered Houses will enable readers to embark upon their own building projects with confidence, backed up by a comprehensive resources section that lists all the latest products such as waterproofing membranes, types of rigid insulation and drainage products that will protect the building against water damage and heat loss.
$25.00$30.0017% offAdd to cart Add to cartEarth-Sheltered Houses: How to Build an Affordable Underground Home (Mother Earth News Wiser Living Series, 4) Paperback – Illustrated, April 3, 2006 by Rob Roy (Author)
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