Group 1-096
Wear & chipping to edges & corners, with scratches, indentations, rub-wear & soiling, plus the following -- FRONT COVER: Slight sun-fade along spine edge; right edge curls up slightly. - SPINE: Slight sun-fade; lower half leans to left, but top half shows NO lean; 3/16" indentation at lower left edge; NO top to bottom crease. - BACK COVER: Yellowing; left edge curls up slightly. - INTERIOR: Lightly tanning pages/inside covers. - OVERALL CONDITION = Good Plus or better!
Back in August 1964, at the age of 17, I spent a month at Minnesota Outward Bound School, deep inside the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness State Park, learning (or attempting to learn!) a wide variety of wilderness survival skills (which, oddly enough, have been of little to no help to me since 1964). One day, however, a special guest instructor arrived in camp -- EUELL GIBBONS, long before the days when he was shilling Grape-Nuts ("tastes like wild hickory nuts") for Post Cereals. Euell walked us through the wild Minnesota woods, pointing out various plants, shrubs and roots which it was safe to eat -- as well as those that were NOT safe. I am indebted to Euell Gibbons for surviving my 3-day solo endurance test, during which I consumed more reindeer moss and choke-cherries than I ever wish to see again!
And -- just a side note here -- you have to cut TOM HANKS' character in the 2000 movie "CAST AWAY" some slack for being unprepared for survival on a desert island for all those years: it probably never had occurred to him during his preceding life, that he would ever NEED this knowledge. BUT -- after over 20 years and 40-plus seasons on TV -- don't you think at least ONE of the contestants on the TV show "SURVIVOR" might have suggested reading this book before hitting the beaches in the South Pacific? Just sayin'. . ..
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