Book "Księga tradycyjnego obozowania. Tom II - Dzicz" - Horace Sowers Kephart

Horace Kephart had a family, an excellent education, a career that had been consistently built up over the years, a position as director of one of the largest libraries in the US, a sizable collection of old books and a reputation as an expert. However, in 1904, at the age of 42, he dropped everything to live in an abandoned mountain cabin and lead the simple life of a man of the woods for the rest of his life.

The second volume of The Book of Traditional Camping looks at the issue of camping from the other, wilder side. The wilderness does not teach how not to make mistakes in the store, it teaches how not to make them in the forest. It doesn't teach what shoes to buy, but how to walk through the forest in them. Instead of compass models, we get a description of the ability to find your way by the stars and moss; instead of a catalog of useful gadgets, we get a catalog of wood species and their uses; instead of a list of provisions, we get a list of wild edible plants.

The world of the second volume is a world of independent use of nature's gifts, it is a difficult world, in places completely alien. The author does not spare details about the vermin lurking in the forest, or the unpleasant technicalities of independently tanning skins, preparing fibers from animal tendons and entrails, or setting broken bones with one's own hands, and other life-saving techniques when civilization is too far away and time is too short.

The Polish edition has been carefully translated to reflect the spirit of the old reading, while making it accessible to the modern reader.

The book in the Polish language version.

Technical data
Author: Horace Sowers Kephart
Translated by: Rafał Wierzbicki
Year of publication: 2019
Binding: soft
Number of pages: 288
Publisher: The Old Wonderful World