How to Send Smoke Signals, Pluck a Chicken & Build an Igloo. Michael Powell

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      How to Send Smoke Signals, Pluck a Chicken & Build an Igloo is the North American edition of How to Send Smoke Signals and Other Vital Life Skills (2014), originally published by Baker & Taylor UK Ltd. This version published in 2019 by Fox Chapel Publishing Company, Inc., 903 Square Street, Mount Joy, PA 17552. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the copyright holders.

      Project Team (UK Edition)

      Text by Michael Powell

      Book layout by Bag of Badgers Ltd

      Project Team (North America Edition)

      Vice President–Content: Christopher Reggio

      Editor: Laura Taylor

      Designer: David Fisk

      ISBN 978-1-4971-0049-7

      eISBN 978-1-6076-5733-0

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2019945996.

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       CONTENTS

      A cornucopia of life skills to learn!

       INTRODUCTION

       STOP A RUNAWAY HORSE

       PITCH A TENT WITHOUT TENT POLES

       CLIMB A TREE

       CATCH A FISH IN A TRAP

       LEARN FINGER WHISTLING

       MAKE NATURAL FIBER CORD

       AGE A TREE WITHOUT CUTTING IT DOWN

       COLLECT, FILTER, AND PURIFY WATER

       MAKE A DUGOUT CANOE

       TELL THE TIME WITHOUT A CLOCK

       BUILD AN IGLOO

       GUT AND CLEAN A FISH

       PAN FOR GOLD

       SHOE A HORSE

       MOUNT AND DISMOUNT A HORSE

       SHEAR A SHEEP

       SEND SMOKE SIGNALS

       CURE PEOPLE WITH LEECHES AND MAGGOTS

       KEEP BEES AND HARVEST HONEY

       PLUCK A CHICKEN

       MAKE FIRE WITH A BOW DRILL

       LEARN FLINT KNAPPING

       MAKE A BOW FROM A SAPLING

       MAKE AND FLETCH AN ARROW

       BUILD AND USE A PIT OVEN

       CHOP DOWN A TREE WITH AN AX

       THATCH A ROOF

       CLIMB A LADDER SAFELY

       USE A SCYTHE

       SALT-CURE MEAT

       RIDE AN ANTIQUE BICYCLE