Shelters, Shacks, and Shanties (Illustrated)

A roof begins with a pole, a cabin with a notch, and a night in the woods with the ability to understand the materials close at hand.

In Shelters, Shacks, and Shanties, Daniel Carter Beard leads the reader from simple temporary shelters to substantial log buildings, explaining how bark, poles, joints, frames, doors and latches work together. His celebrated line drawings expose the structure beneath the finished form and make frontier craft intelligible through the eye as well as the written word.

Published in 1914, the book stands between the practical inheritance of the old American woodsman and the organized outdoor education of the Boy Scouts of America, which Beard helped to found and shape. What had once been learned from necessity became a deliberate school of observation, resourcefulness and workmanship.

This AETERNUS edition preserves the complete first-edition text and Beard’s original numbered illustrations, restored for clear reproduction, with an expanded author portrait, historical afterword, editorial note and glossary of period woodcraft.

A classic of American woodcraft and practical self-reliance.

AETERNUS · AMBER SERIES · Paperback · 272 pages · 6 × 9 in · 63 plates · ISBN 978-3-67605-072-2

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