Books

>>1070344
AWOL on the Appalachian Trail is ok.

>>1070347
Looks quite interesting

Is there any good camping guide for beginners?

>>1070344
>books that makes me feel /out/ when I'm not /out/
Edward Abbey
The World Made by Hand series by JH Kunstler

>>1070436
Funnily enough, a Boy Scout Handbook

>>1070449
Eagle Scout and current assistant scoutmaster here....High adventure advisor....If you can find an old boy scout field book or handbook (they are different) from the 1980's. The stuff they publish now is watered down.

>>1070453
>The stuff they publish now is watered down.
They don't really want the kids cutting down trees to build stuff, since the kids outnumber the trees now.

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>>1070453
>>1070459
I remember when I was in there was a bunch of shit about being a good citizen and stuff in my handbook. I never really cared for it because I had a quality upbringing and wanted to learn outdoors skills with my friends. I imagine the older handbooks are much lighter on helping old people across the street and such.

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>>1070466
Didn't think that was a book at first...

I wonder if they did that on purpose?

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>>1070475
I don't know, but the new cover is really gay

>>1070453
Just found out they reproduce the original handbook, probably very useful for OP

https://www.amazon.com/Boy-Scouts-Handbook-First-Americana/dp/0486439917/ref=pd_sim_14_3?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0486439917&pd_rd_r=BXMWTTD7QYE3NWD2YBVJ&pd_rd_w=0sL7X&pd_rd_wg=hapEg&psc=1&refRID=BXMWTTD7QYE3NWD2YBVJ

>>1070486
It... it really is.

>>1070344

I like works on philosophy or the classics when I'm cuddled up in the woods. A little pretentious, i know, but cozy and fewer distractions so I can concentrate.

Analects of Confucious
Art of War
Tao Te Ching

The Chinese stuff is also short and available in pocket editions. When I'm laying down in a tent, a light weight book is easier to hold up for hours.

The western classics mostly are big heavy books so a front lit Kindle is the better option. The battery life on those things is insane, especially if you turn off the radio.

Thucydides's History of the Peloponnesian War is one I'm slowly working through.
Xenophon's Anabasis
Machiavelli's The Prince.
Kissinger's Diplomacy
A LONG list of CS Lewis writings. Screwtape Letters is the most fun, also try Mere Christianity and Abolition of Man
Maimonides, Guide to the Perplexed. I hear Treatises on Logic is good, too.
Jewish scholars often publish articles about ethics and Jewish law and many are fascinating.
I need to find a good book of Islamic ideas, especially sufiism.
Toffler: The Third Wave
Spengler: The Decline of the West
Randall's Making of the Modern Mind is a classic that used to be required reading for nearly every college student and is now all but forgotten.
Marcus Aurelius: Meditations
Will Durant's: Story of Philosophy is good and very readable even when you're sleepy. Story of Civilization is a huge multivolume opus he wrote with his waifu.

Plus some /pol/itical stuff that belongs on another board and you'll want to pick and choose based on your own politics. Liberals can read Rawls: Theory of Justice. Conservatives can read Milton Friedman (Capitalism and Freedom) and Hayek (The Road to Serfdom). Just for example.

Being /out/ is perfect for reading these big ideas with far reaching implications. Fewer distractions. You've been walking all day, so you're patient. Early to bed, plenty of sleep. Out in the big world, I feel like big ideas fit in, under the stars.

I like readin about 'Nam in the woods. When you're being eaten alive by mosquitoes and can't sleep in your hammock for the heat and humidity, turning on the red light on the headlamp, chambering a round into the ol' .45 Auto, and reading about some LRRP team deep inside Cambodia just feels awesome.

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>>1070453
If you can find one of these they are gold.

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Anything Tolkien is very comfy to read while /out/

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>>1070344

>>1070344
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>>1070344
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Hemingway.

Anyone know any good books for learning how to build a cabin?

>>1070760
C O M F Y especially if you live in his region

>>1071812
I would also like to know.

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A book of edible plants in your area.

>>1071824
I mean, a basic carpentry textbook should be your starting point. The guy I rent from built my house using three textbooks.

>>1071904
I own this

10/10 would recommend