{"product_id":"shelters-shacks-and-shanties-by-d-c-beard","title":"Shelters, Shacks, and Shanties by D.C. Beard","description":"\u003cp\u003eEssential reading for anyone interested in learning about constructing their own wilderness shelter! Get the know-how you need to build rustic outdoor shelters, from a bark teepee to a log cabin.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis excellent hands-on guide by one of the founders of the Boy Scouts of America contains a wealth of practical instruction and advice on how to build everything from a bark teepee and a tree-top house to a log cabin and a sod house . No professional architects are needed here, and knowing how to use an axe is more important than possessing carpentry skills.\u003cbr\u003eMore than 300 of the author's own illustrations and a  clear, easy-to-follow text enable campers to create such lodgings as half-cave shelters, beaver mat huts, birchbark shacks, over-water camps, a Navajo hogan, and a pole house. Additional chapters provide information on how to use an axe, split and notch logs, make a fireplace, and even build appropriate gateways to log houses, game preserves, ranches, and other open areas.\u003cbr\u003eAn invaluable book for scouts, campers, hikers, and hunters of all ages , this guide and its fascinating collection of outdoor lore \"still has intrinsic value,\" said  Whole Earth Magazine,  and will be of keen interest to any modern homesteader.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGoodreads: 4.07\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback, 2004\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Story Keepers Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43644751151295,"sku":"","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0611\/0268\/6399\/files\/20260503_131324.jpg?v=1777832705","url":"https:\/\/storykeepersbooks.com\/products\/shelters-shacks-and-shanties-by-d-c-beard","provider":"Story Keepers Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}