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Product Description Woodcraft and Camping is a classic outdoors manual that has never been out of print. Author George Washington Sears, 'The Father of American Camping,' fills his short book with concise, essential advice on camping, hiking, building a fire, cooking out, shelters, tools and equipment, hunting and fishing, canoeing, and more. About the Author George Washington Sears (1821 - 1890) was a sportswriter for Forest and Stream magazine in the 1880s and an early conservationist. His stories, appearing under the pen name, Nessmuk popularized self-guided canoe camping tours of the Adirondack lakes in open, lightweight solo canoes and what is today called ultralight camping.