American Axe

American Axe
Author: Brett McLeod
Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2020-10-13
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 163586139X

From bronze axes of the Viking conquests to the American homesteader’s felling axe, this is a tool that has shaped human history like few others. American Axe pays tribute to this iconic instrument of settlement and industry, with rich history, stunning photography, and profiles of the most collectible vintage axes such as The Woodslasher, Keen Cutter, and True Temper Perfect. Combining his experiences as a forester, axe collector, and former competitive lumberjack, author Brett McLeod conveys the allure of this deceptively simple woodcutting implement and celebrates the resurging interest in its story and use.

Book of the Little Axe

Book of the Little Axe
Author: Lauren Francis-Sharma
Publisher: Grove Press
Total Pages: 390
Release: 2020-05-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0802147038

This “masterful epic” spans decades and oceans from Trinidad to the American frontier during the tumultuous days of westward expansion (Publishers Weekly). Trinidad, 1796. Young Rosa Rendón quietly rebels against the life others expect her to lead. Bright, competitive, and opinionated, she does not intend to cook and keep house, for it is obvious her talents lie in running the farm she views as her birthright. But when her homeland changes from Spanish to British rule, the fate of free black property owners—Rosa’s family among them—is suddenly jeopardized. By 1830, Rosa is living among the Crow Nation in Bighorn, Montana, with her children and her husband, Edward Rose, a Crow chief. Her son Victor is of the age where he must seek his vision and become a man. But his path forward is blocked by secrets Rosa has kept from him. So Rosa must take him to where his story began and, in turn, retrace her own roots. Along the way, she must acknowledge the painful events that forced her from the middle of an ocean to the rugged terrain of a far-away land. A Booklist Editor’s Choice Book of the Year

Wilderness Axe Skills and Campcraft

Wilderness Axe Skills and Campcraft
Author: Paul Kirtley
Publisher:
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2021-03-28
Genre:
ISBN: 9780764361487

An understandable guide to key skills for bushcrafters, campers, outdoors lovers, and anyone interested in surviving on the land. No other woodcraft teacher instills outdoor knowledge the way Kirtley does, which has earned him a stellar global reputation. This is the chance to learn from him even if you can't attend his sold-out courses. Everything needed for those seeking eventual serious bushcraft mastery, and also helpful for those who admire bushcraft but simply want to add ease and enjoyment to occasional camping. This is his first book and teaches the core skills from start to finish: selecting the correct tools for the task, caring for the tools, everyday axe techniques, felling, limbing, sectioning, and carving techniques and projects. Next, master efficient and sometimes lifesaving campcraft needs, including pot hangers, tripods, cranes, camp grills, broilers, lanterns, stools, tent needs, essential knots, lashings, ladders, and rope throwing and hoisting. Also features a detailed look at more than a dozen types of wood and their properties, for best choices in all bushcraft needs.

The Song of the Axe

The Song of the Axe
Author: Paul O. Williams
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2006-04-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780803298460

On a last run, Tor teaches his nephew, Tristal, the Shumai axeman ways, but Tristal must survive deadly encounters, endure a seductive captivity, and suffer enslavement before he masters the axeman's skill. Reprint.

The Axemaker's Gift

The Axemaker's Gift
Author: James Burke
Publisher: Putnam Adult
Total Pages: 376
Release: 1995
Genre: History
ISBN:

"At the close of this century of creativity and discovery, humanists and scientists alike wonder: How could human beings in all their brilliance - those "axemakers" with the genius to invent, lead, inspire, heal, design - have brought the world to the brink of destruction?" "The answers can be found in The Axemaker's Gift, an imaginative and brilliantly informed double-edged history of human culture. James Burke, a leading expert on the interaction of technology and society, and Robert Ornstein, a pioneer in charting the evolution of consciousness, show how the interaction between innovation and the brain has continually reshaped the world and, more important, the way we think."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Hudson Bay

Hudson Bay
Author: Robert Michael Ballantyne
Publisher:
Total Pages: 388
Release: 1857
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

Roy Buchanan

Roy Buchanan
Author: Phil Carson
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2001
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780879306397

Om den amerikanske guitarist Roy Buchanan (1939-1988)

Hatchet

Hatchet
Author: Gary Paulsen
Publisher: Puffin
Total Pages: 195
Release: 1989-07-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780140343717

After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the Canadian wilderness, learning to survive with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce.

Nellie Kniffen Took an Axe

Nellie Kniffen Took an Axe
Author: Craig Calcaterra
Publisher:
Total Pages: 35
Release: 2017-07-22
Genre:
ISBN: 9781521935071

Some people who take in interest in genealogy discover that they are Irish when they thought they were Scottish. Others find a long-lost cousin. When Craig Calcaterra began looking at his family history he found out that his great-great grandmother murdered his great-great grandfather with an axe on a snowy winter's night in Detroit, Michigan in 1910. Nellie Kniffen's violent rampage and her husband Frank's grisly demise was front page news in Detroit for several weeks, but she and her crime were soon forgotten, both by the public and by her family. Those who remembered it tried hard to forget it and those who came after knew nothing about it at all.Through research of public records, personal interviews and a review of the sensationalistic newspaper stories written before Frank Kniffen's body grew cold, Calcaterra unearths a chapter which had been torn out of his family's history. And begins to better understand the ghosts and demons which have haunted his family for over a century.