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Library

The following books and videos are used and recommended by the staff of the Maine Primitive Skills School.  Click on the book name to find out more information.  If you purchase books through our links, a percentage of the purchase price goes to our webmaster who works very hard and volunteers her time and skills to us.

 

Birds

National Audubon Society, Field Guide to North American Birds

National Geographic, Field Guide to Birds of North America

Peterson, Roger Tory, Eastern Birds (Peterson's Field Guides)

Ehrlich/Dobkin/Wheye,  The Birder's Handbook

Sibley, David Allen, The Sibley Guide to Birds

Wheeler/Clark, A Photographic Guide to American Raptors

Stokes, Donald and Lillian, A Guide to Bird Behavior, Vol.1,Vol. 2, Vol. 3,

Stokes, Donald and Lillian, Stokes Field Guide to Birds: Eastern Region

 

Bows

The Bowyer's Bible, Vol. 1

The Bowyer's Bible, Vol. 2

The Bowyer's Bible, Vol.3

Hamm, Jim, Bows & Arrow's of the Native Americans

Waldorf, D.C., The Art of Making Primitive Bows and Arrows

 

Brain Tanning

Richards, Matt, Deerskins Into Buckskins - Book, DVD, and Video (Wet Scrape)

Riggs, Jim, Blue Mountain Buckskin (Dry Scrape)

Edholm, Steven & Wilder, Tamara, Buckskin: The Ancient Art of Braintanning (Wet Scrape)

 

Flintknapping

Ratzat, Craig, Caught Knapping (Video)

Waldorf, D.C., The Art of Flintknapping

Whittaker, John C., Flintknapping

 

Magazines

Bulletin of Primitive Technology

Primitive Archer

Wilderness Way Magazine

 

New England

Haines/Vining, Flora of Maine

Maine Forest Service, Forest Trees of Maine

Seymour, Tom, Foraging New England

National Audubon Society, Field Guide to New England

Wallner/DiGregorio, New England Mountain Flowers

Halfpenny/Bruchac, Scats and Tracks of the North East

Georgiady/Brockmann, Prehistoric Lithic Types of New England

Hunter/Calhoun/McCollough, Maine Amphibians and Reptiles

 

Plants

Gibbons, Euell, Stalking the Wild Asparagus

Foster/Caras, Venomous Animals & Poisonous Plants (Peterson's Field Guides)

Newcomb, Lawrence, Newcomb's Wildflower Guide

Peterson, Lee Allen, Edible Wild Plants (Peterson's Field Guides)

Brown Jr., Tom, Field Guide to Wild Edible and Medicinal Plants

Brill, Steve, Identifying and Harvesting Edible and Medicinal Plants

Elpel, Thomas J., Botany in a Day

Duke, James, The Green Pharmacy

Hoffman, David, Complete Illustrated Guide to the Holistic Herbal

Reader's Digest, Magic and Medicine of Plants

Embertson, Jane, PODS: Wildflowers and Weeds in Their Final Beauty

Wood, Matthew, The Book of Herbal Wisdom: Using Plants as Medicine

Christopher, John R., School of Natural Healing

Edwards, Gail, Opening our Wild Hearts to the Healing Herbs

Thayer, Samuel, The Forager's Harvest

Schmid, Ronald, Traditional Foods are Your Best Medicine

Couplan, Francois, The Encyclopedia of Edible Plants of North America

 

Primitive Skills

White, George M., Craft Manual of North American Footwear

Mason, Bernard S., Drums, Tomtoms & Rattles

Society of Primitive Technology, Primitive Technology: A Book of Earth Skills

Society of Primitive Technology, Primitive Technology II: Ancestral Skills

Laubin, Reginald and Gladys, The Indian Tipi

Dina, James, Voyage of the Ant

 

Scout

Brown Jr., The Way of the Scout

Goodwin, Grenville & Neil, The Apache Diaries

Ball, Eve, In the Days of Victorio

Carter, Forrest, Watch for Me on the Mountain

 

Spiritual

Mails, Thomas, Fool's Crow

Mails, Thomas, Fool's Crow: Wisdom and Power

Black Elk, Black Elk Speaks

Brown Jr., Tom, Awakening Spirits

Green, Glenda, Love Without End

Andrews, Ted, Animal Speak

Brennan, Barbara Ann, Hands of Light

Edwards, Betty, Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain

Powell, M. Norman, Ingwe

Carter, Forrest, The Education of Little Tree

Reitze, Raymond, And We Shall Cast Rainbows Upon the Land

 

Survival/Bushcraft

Mears, Ray, Bushcraft

Olsen, Larry Dean, Outdoor Survival Skills

McPherson, John & Geri, Primitive Wilderness Living & Survival Skills,

McPherson, John & GeriPrimitive Wilderness Skills: Applied & Advanced

Brown Jr., Tom, Field Guide to Wilderness Survival

Brown Jr., Tom, Field Guide to Living with the Earth

Kochanski, Mors, Bushcraft

Elbroch, Mark & Pewtherer, Michael, Wilderness Survival

Conover, Garrett & Alexandra, Snow Walker's Companion

Hjellstrom, Bjorn, Be Expert with Map & Compass

Lundin, Cody, 98.6 Degrees: Keeping Your Ass Alive

 

Tracking

Elbroch, Mark, Bird Tracks & Sign

Elbroch, Mark, Mammal Tracks & Sign

Rezendez, Paul, Tracking & The Art of Seeing

Brown Jr., Tom, The Tracker

Brown Jr., Tom, Nature Observation and Tracking

Brown Jr., Tom, The Science & Art of Tracking

Brown Jr., Tom,  Case Files of the Tracker

Murie, Olaus, Animal Tracks (Peterson's Field Guides)

Kays/Wilson, Mammals of North America

National Audubon Society, Familiar Animal Tracks of North America

McDougall, Len, The Encyclopedia of Tracks & Scats

The Great Dance (video)

Stokes, Donald & Lillian, A Guide to Animal Tracking and Behavior

Benyus, Janine, Northwoods Wildlife- A Watchers Guide to Habitats

Benyus, Janine, A Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States

Kearney, Jack, Tracking: A Blueprint for Learning How

McDougal, Len, The Complete Tracker

Scott-Donelan, David Tactical Tracking Operations

Elbroch, Mark, Animal Skulls: A Guide to North American Species

 

Trees & Shrubs

The Audubon Society, Field Guide to North American Trees

Little, Charles E., The Dying of the Trees

Symonds, George W.D., The Tree Identification Book

Symonds, George W.D., The Shrub Identification Book

Wessel, Thomas, Reading the Forrested Landscape

Geisel, Theodor Seuss, The Lorax

Sutton, Ann, Eastern Forests (Audubon Society Nature Guides)

Eastman, John, The Book of Forest and Thicket

Eastman, John, The Book of Swamp and Bog