Excerpt from The Camper's Own Book: For Devotees of Tent and Trail Prefatory; The Fallacy of Roughing It; By Oliver Kemp; Author of "Wilderness Homes"; Canoeing and Exploring along the Dawson Route; By Warwick S. Carpenter; Traveler, Sportsman and Magazinist; The Art of Dry-Fly Fishing; By Emlyn M. Gill; Angling Expert; Medical and Surgical Suggestions for the Camper; By Harry C. Phibbs; Authority on First Aid; Winter and Spring Shooting of Wild Fowl; By Edward H. Forbush; State Ornithologist of Massachusetts; Mid-Winter Canoeing in North Carolina; By John W. Achorn, M. D.; President of the Mid-Winter Canoeing Club; Sidelights on Adirondack Mountain Tops; By Warwick S. Carpenter; Photographic Pointers from a Professional; By C. J. Greenleaf; Camera Expert; The Boy Scouts of America; By Dan Beard; National Scout Commissioner; The Camp Fire Girls and Camp Wohelo; By Mrs. Luther H. Gulick; Founder of the Movement About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.