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Outdoor Skills Advice From People Famous For Other Reasons

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When I was an adolescent, I read a lot of Ernest Hemingway. Yesterday I searched for reasons about why he committed suicide, and came across this 1920 article he wrote about camping out. A tight, direct prose similar to his later novels.

 
I guess our forebears had to use what was available to them. When I watched Werner Herzog's Happy People some years ago, I noticed that the Siberians cooked up birch bark tar . It comes with some more drawbacks than citronella but maybe it works better.
 
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