Another interesting old book available on line

[john b 38]

 

I stumbled upon this book a couple of weeks ago - an author I had never heard of before but who turns out to have been a bit of a trapping celebrity in his day.

 

Arthur Robert Harding wrote many books on trapping, preparing furs, camp craft, prospecting and medicinal plants. If fact he was the founder of the Fur-Fish-Game magazine which is still going in the USA some 100 years later.

 

This particular book, published in 1906, is just the sort of thing that appeals to me and is full of detailed diagrams and sketches of various traps of the period - none of which would be suitable for use in the UK today.

 

In style and content it is very similar to William Gibson's 'Camp Life in the Woods and the Trick of Trapping' published in 1881 which I know has been mentioned on here before.

 

Like that book, this one is also available as a free download on line at http://www.archive.o...aresb00harduoft where they have a number of other old trapping books which are out of copyright.

 

It won't surprise any of you that having found this I have now added some paperback versions of it to the Fourteenacre shop.

 

Happy reading

John

[moley 115]

cracking little book , i bought i a good few years ago