The New Way of the Wilderness

Sports & Outdoors

Rutstrum,Calvin

Hiking & Camping

Macmillan Pub. Co.

First Collier Books Edition, 1973. Paperback published by Collier Books. The complete guide to finding your way in the wilderness. "An essential traveling companion for any individual or group wishing to hunt, fish, explore, camp out or simply walk through unfamiliar territory."

The Wilderness Route Finder

Reviews the history of canoeing in North America and describes the pleasures of modern canoe travel

North American Canoe Country

Water Sports

Wilderness Cabin

Science & Math

Technology

Sports/Travel  Indispensable advice on enjoying the great outdoors in winter.  With the public's growing interest in outdoor adventure and in simple pastimes, winter wilderness camping has again become an exhilarating alternative to sheltered urban life. Originally published in 1968, this classic guide for cold-weather enthusiasts by renowned wilderness expert Calvin Rutstrum is available again, now in an easy-to-pack paperback edition.  Paradise Below Zero provides essential information on wilderness adventure in subzero temperatures. Readers benefit from Rutstrum's knowledge of winter clothing, from choosing the proper mittens to selecting the indispensable footwear; traveling methods, including running a dogsled team; and emergency techniques, such as treating snow blindness and caring for someone who has broken through the ice. Rutstrum affectionately reflects on winter life and enthusiastically gives examples of how native peoples of the north and trappers have fought the cold. This colorful book will be of interest to anyone who has ever survived a northern winter.  Calvin Rutstrum (1895-1982) was one of the best-known outdoorsmen of his generation and the author of many books, including The Wilderness Route Finder, North American Canoe Country, and The New Way of the Wilderness, all published in paperback by the University of Minnesota Press.   Leslie Kouba also illustrated many of the works of Sigurd Olson.  Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage Book Series  Translation Inquiries: Simon & Schuster

Paradise Below Zero.

MacMillan Publishing Company

"Like Henry David Thoreau, he set out to live a simpler, more meaningful life. In his pursuit, Rutstrum came to appreciate the natural world and the skills necessary to survive in it. Part memoir, part guidebook, and part environmental treatise, Once upon a Wilderness is a treasury of wilderness wisdom." This is an attractive and well kept book: Blue linen over boards with gilt print on spine; 181 pages; tight and crisp binding; corners are square and sharp; no external or internal marks; no chips or tears; text block is bright and clean; this book appears unread - no reader's crease or page separation; dust jacket displays VERY gently scuffed bottom corners; first edition.

Once upon a Wilderness

History

Americas

Chips from a Wilderness Log

Stein & Day Pub

Calvin Rutstrum's fans have long known about his nuts-and-bolts approach to wilderness living. With this reissue of North American Canoe Country, a new generation of readers has the chance to learn time-tested secrets of a safe canoe adventure from a master outdoorsman.
First published in 1964, North American Canoe Country is a complete treatise on the art of canoeing. Written as a guide for travelers who wanted to embark on self-sufficient trips deep into the wilderness, this book offers readers all the information they need to plan and undertake a canoe trip. Rutstrum gives the essentials on canoes, comparing birch-bark, wood, wood-and-canvas, and aluminum crafts. His paddling procedures are timeless -- he describes strategies for rough waters, rapids, for boating alone or in tandem, including diagrams of strokes. Portaging, safety procedures, direction finding, towing, and much more are systematically approached and explained.
Rutstrum also writes about some of the epic canoe journeys of the twentieth century. This book will be of interest to both armchair adventurers curious about life in the great American wilderness and to those who want ideas on how to return to a less complicated way of enjoying the great outdoors.

North American Canoe Country: The Classic Guide to Canoe Technique

Univ. of Minnesota Press

Sports/Travel 
Indispensable advice on enjoying the great outdoors in winter. 
With the public's growing interest in outdoor adventure and in simple pastimes, winter wilderness camping has again become an exhilarating alternative to sheltered urban life. Originally published in 1968, this classic guide for cold-weather enthusiasts by renowned wilderness expert Calvin Rutstrum is available again, now in an easy-to-pack paperback edition. 
Paradise Below Zero provides essential information on wilderness adventure in subzero temperatures. Readers benefit from Rutstrum's knowledge of winter clothing, from choosing the proper mittens to selecting the indispensable footwear; traveling methods, including running a dogsled team; and emergency techniques, such as treating snow blindness and caring for someone who has broken through the ice. Rutstrum affectionately reflects on winter life and enthusiastically gives examples of how native peoples of the north and trappers have fought the cold. This colorful book will be of interest to anyone who has ever survived a northern winter. 
Calvin Rutstrum (1895-1982) was one of the best-known outdoorsmen of his generation and the author of many books, including The Wilderness Route Finder, North American Canoe Country, and The New Way of the Wilderness, all published in paperback by the University of Minnesota Press. 
Leslie Kouba also illustrated many of the works of Sigurd Olson. 
Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage Book Series 
Translation Inquiries: Simon &amp; Schuster

Paradise Below Zero: The Classic Guide to Winter Camping (Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage)

Sports/Travel 
The complete resource on backcountry camping from a legendary wilderness expert. 
In this classic guide, first published in the late 1950s, Rutstrum covers the key elements of a successful camping trip: the proper way to build a raft, chop down a tree, construct a campsite, cook over a campfire, find a way through the woods, and much more. Drawing upon his vast experience in all kinds of weather, Rutstrum provides essential knowledge for every camper, in a lightweight volume perfect for the backpack. 
"A clear and comprehensive book by one who obviously is a master of do-it-yourself procedures. . . . This text is designed for both novices and experienced travelers in the true wilderness, although it touches on life in less rigorous reaches." Kirkus 
"A rich mine of information on camping, traveling, and surviving in wilderness areas. Primarily a personal reference book, but also a volume that many persons who enjoy outdoor recreation, as well as 'armchair outdoorsmen,' can read from cover to cover. The sections on food, on living in frigid wilderness areas, and on direction finding contain materials not readily found elsewhere. Also included are valuable checklists of equipment and supplies to take on wilderness expeditions." Library Journal 
For biographies of Calvin Rutstrum and Leslie Kouba, see left. 
Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage Book Series 
Translation Inquiries: Simon &amp; Schuster

New Way Of The Wilderness: The Classic Guide to Survival in the Wild (Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage)

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