Name: The American Boy's Handy Book: What to Do and How Do It - Daniel Carter Beard
Brand: Daniel Carter Beard
Price: 84.07 RON
Availability: InStock

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n nCamp, explore, hike, discover, learn woodcraft--get outdoors and be at home in nature all through the year There's so much to do and discover with this truly Handy Book as a guide. Written for children in 1882, and valuable for kids or adults today, the author suggests projects, crafts, plans, games, and schemes for camping trips, hikes, or the backyard. It contains plans for 16 kinds of kites and hot-air balloons and fishing tackle, how to make and stock an aquarium, to construct a water telescope and how to camp out without a tent. Or in a hut made from pine boughs. How to build 10 kinds of boats, including a flatboat with a covered cabin. Iceboats, too. Squirt guns with astonishing range and authority. One-person canoes. Bird calls. Daniel Carter Beard, a founder of the scouting movement in America, helped preserve invaluable folkways that can instill self-reliance and a deeper appreciation of nature--all while having a world of fun for all ages.n