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THE COMPLETE
OUTDOORSMAN'S
HANDBOOK

A Guide to Outdoor Living and Wilderness Survival

JEROME J. KNAP
L Ll
PAGURIAN PRESS LIMITED

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Copyright @ 1976 Pagurian Press Limited
Suite 603, 335 Bay Street, Toronto, Canada
A Christopher Ondaatje publication. Copyright under the Berne Convention. All rights reserved. No part

of this book may be reproduced in any form without the permission of the publishers.
Distributed in the United States of America and internationally by:
PUBLISHERS MARKETING GROUP A BAKER & TAYLOR COMPANY
Executive Offices
1515 Broadway

New York, N.Y. 10036
Distribution Center
Gladiola Avenue Momence, Illinois 60954
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 74-79519 ISBN 0-919364-62-4
Printed and Bound in the United States of America.

OTHER BOOKS BY JEROME J. KNAP

The Hunter's Handbook
101 Tips to Improve Your Fishing
Training the Versatile Gun Dog (with Alyson Knap)
Getting Hooked on Fishing (with David Richey)
Where to Fish and Hunt in North America
The Family Camping Handbook
A Complete Guide to Canoeing (with Carl Monk)
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS AND PICTURE CREDITS

My most sincere thanks to E. B. Sanders for his many fine pen-and-ink sketches which illustrate this
book.

Thanks are also due to the following persons and organizations for the use of photographs: Arkansas
Fish and Game Commission (page 158); Bausch and Lomb Incorporated (page 66), Buck Knives
Incorporated (pages 68 and 77) ~ Bushnell Optical Incorporated (page 64); Canadian Government
Travel Bureau (page 28) Gerry/Outdoor Sports Industries Incorporated (pages 31 and 99); Jerome Knap
(pages 54 and 80); E. Leitz Incorporated (pages 60 and 65); McCulloch Corporation (page 86), Normark
Corporation (page 75 and 152) ; Ontario Ministry of Industry and Tourism (pages 82, 103, 107, 135, 138
and 142) ; Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (pages 120 and 131) ; Outboard Marine Corporation
(page 147); Pennsylvania Game Commission (pages 34 and 32); RU-KO of Canada Limited (page 73).
Contents

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS AND PICTURE CREDITS vi
INTRODUCTION
1. UNDERSTANDING THE OUT-OF-DOORS

2. OUTDOOR KNOW-HOW
Training Your Senses, Sounds and Smells: Interpreting Ani
mal Actions

3- WILDLIFE HAZARDS
Bears: Other Wildlife, Rabies, Dequilling a Dog; Wildlife on
Highways, Snakes: Treating a Snake Bite-, Other Reptiles

4- BEATING THE BUGS
Wasps, Hornets, and Bees: Scorpions and Spiders: Mosquitos
and Blackflies; Horseflies and Deerflies-, Chiggers and Itch
Mites: Ticks, Caterpillars; Coping with Itching Bites

5- POISONOUS PLANTS
Poison Ivy: Poison Sumac; Poison Oak; Stinging Nettle
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