Heat, insulation, fire and power methods, explained step by step, using materials you already own or find on site.
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Warmth, fire and power, nearly free
Warmth, power and one kit that works
Off-grid systems for pennies
Heat escapes in a few predictable ways, and each one has a low-cost fix. These books show you the fixes in the order you'd use them in camp.
All 26 chapters of the complete system
Gideon Camping
I'm Gideon, and I camp out of a truck on nights that drop near freezing. After waking up cold in gear that cost far more than it should have, I went looking for how people stayed warm before any of it existed. Most of what's in these books comes from old field sources that are still in print: Nessmuk's Woodcraft from 1884, Horace Kephart's Camping and Woodcraft from 1906, and the U.S. Army survival field manuals. I tested the methods myself, one at a time, and kept notes on what worked, what didn't, and where a method becomes unsafe. The notebook got long enough that it needed an order, so I wrote it down properly. The detail I'm fondest of: the first night I slept straight through, the only thing I'd changed was what was under me.
I didn't set out to write books. I set out to stop waking up cold. What I found was that the problem was rarely the price of the equipment. It was knowing how heat moves, where it leaks and how to hold it. Those are old skills, and most of us were never taught them. They weren't passed down; they were replaced by things you buy. So I gathered what I learned into three short volumes. The first covers staying warm. The second covers power and cooking without depending on a big battery. The third ties it together into one kit you can take on every trip. None of it asks you to throw away what you own. It asks you to understand it. If you've ever lain awake at three in the morning wondering what you were doing wrong, this is written for you.
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Three practical books on warmth, power and one kit that works on every trip.
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