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• 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

 

Natural Navigation

Works by Tristan Gooley, The Natural Navigator 

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
• Pennell, Kevin, Two Feathers – Spiritual Seed Planter

 

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

 

Magazines

• Bulletin of Primitive Technology
• Primitive Archer
• Wilderness Way Magazine