Get outdoors 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.

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Format: TradePaperback
Author: Beard, Daniel Carter
ISBN: 9780879234492
Condition: Used
Dimensions: 7.60 x 1.50
Number Of Pages: 441
Publication Year: 2010

The American Boy's Handy Book: What to Do and How Do It

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