Originally Posted By: bacpacjac
... My oldest is Kephart's "Camping and Woodcraft: A Handbook for Vacation Campers and for Travelers in the Wilderness." Not entirely what we think of as a survival manual, but very comprehensive. Originally published in 1917, my Grandfather had a copy when I as a kid, but an older cousin inherited that version. The copy I'm reading is the 7 printing from 2004.

Like Galton's book, Kephart's still-in-print classic grew through multiple editions, of which the 1917 version is the last.

I see no version at Project Gutenberg, alas, but the versions at Internet Archive seem clean, and have pretty much every format you could ask for: read online, or download as .pdf, epub, Kindle, or plaintext.

1st ed 1906: 321 pp: https://archive.org/details/bookofcampingwoo00keph
4th ed 1910: 331 pp, https://archive.org/details/bookofcampingwoo01keph
5th ed 1912: 331 pp, https://archive.org/details/bookofcampingwoo02keph
1917 version, 469 pp, https://archive.org/details/campingwoodcraft00kephrich


Edited by rafowell (06/17/16 06:07 AM)
Edit Reason: pdf is at Internet Archive
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A signal mirror should backup a radio distress signal, like a 406 MHz PLB (ACR PLB) (Ocean Signal PLB)