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We also recommend: What's Inside?This new reprint edition of Boat-Building and Boating by D.C. Beard shows beginners how to build everything from a log raft to a houseboat. Originally written for boys aged 12 to 18 by a co-founder of the scouting movement in the United States, Boat-Building assumes potential builders will have only the most minimal of skills but want to enjoy an outing on the water in an inexpensive vessel they have crafted themselves.
Along with instruction on how to build basic log rafts, canoes, a simple rowboat, a simple sailboat, a rugged houseboat, and a "cheap and speedy" motor boat, Beard also provides basic instruction on boat handling, knot-tying, seamanship, canoe paddling, and sailing. Beard took his viewpoint from Emerson, and thought of his work as a "useful book to a large audience of new recruits to the army of those who believe in the good old American doctrine of: 'If you want a thing done, do it yourself.' And by doing it yourself you not only add to your skill and resourcefulness, but, what is even more important, you develop your own self-reliance . . ."
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How to Cross a Stream on a Log
About the AuthorA Progressive-era reformer, outdoorsman, illustrator, and author, Daniel Carter Beard was known to millions of Boy Scouts as "Uncle Dan, the group's first National Commissioner, a post he held until his death in 1941. Beard began a career as an illustrator with the Sanborn Map and Publishing Company, and went on to have his illustrations appear in dozens of magazines and newspapers from Harper's Weekly and the New York Herald to children's magazines such as St. Nicholas. In 1881 he was hired by Samuel Clemens to illustrate A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court which was published in 1889. Before and during his involvement in scouting, Beard authored a number of how-to books including the American Boy's Handy Book; the American Girl's Handy Book; Shelters, Shacks and Shanties; the Outdoor Handy Book; Jack of All Trades; Do It Yourself; and The American Boy's Book of Camp-Lore and Woodcraft among others.
Author: D(aniel) C(arter) Beard Publisher: Dixon-Price Publishing Mechanicals: 5.5 x 8.5 - trade paperback ISBN: 1-929516-17-7 Price: U.S. $15.99
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