A Guide to Primitive Camping: Tips For Any Type of Outdoor Camping

By Jerry Darsey

The principal audience for this book is the person or persons who wish a camping experience with a minimum of camping equipment. It is oriented for those who go camping with a minimum of food or no food, without a tent, without utensils, etc. It is based on this author's years of experience camping in the swamps of South Louisiana. It covers instructions on how to build shelters, how to minimize biting insects, how to construct a campfire, how to boil water with and without a pot, how to secure food, and many other survival methods. There are, however, many tips in this work for those who may only wish to go on a weekend campout; tips that can make any campout trip more enjoyable. This book also has a wealth of references at the end of each chapter, giving more detail concerning the material covered in each chapter. Just one example of a useful tip; it concerns a simple way to minimize insect bites, especially those of mosquitos and gnats (which are a huge problem in Louisiana). If one significantly increases the consumption of garlic for about a week or two before going camping, mosquitos and other biting insects will pretty much leave you alone. Although I do not have any specific scientific evidence concerning this, the experiences of many, many camping trips in the Louisiana swamps attest to its effectiveness. Also, the type of shelter you build can have a major impact on minimizing most biting insects.

This author hopes that everyone from the casual camper to the very ambitious camper will find some useful nuggets within the pages of this book, which will make any camping trip a more enjoyable experience.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Newman Springs Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Mar 11, 2024
• ISBN: 9798890613547

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Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1: Building a Shelter

Chapter 2: Building a Fire

Chapter 3: Finding and Purifying Water

Chapter 4: Obtaining Food

Chapter 5: Review of Signifcant Tips

Additional Reading

About the Author

Index

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A Guide to Primitive Camping

Tips For Any Type of Outdoor Camping

Jerry Darsey

Copyright © 2024 Jerry Darsey

All rights reserved

First Edition

NEWMAN SPRINGS PUBLISHING

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Red Bank, NJ 07701

First originally published by Newman Springs Publishing 2024

ISBN 979-8-89061-353-0 (Paperback)

ISBN 979-8-89061-354-7 (Digital)

Printed in the United States of America

To the many fellow Boy Scouts, I went camping with.

Preface

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.¹ These words were written by the great author Charles Dickens. They could easily describe many, if not most, campouts. Those who go camping on a regular or even an infrequent basis can relate to both the best of times and the worst of times. If one is on a camping trip where the weather is good, the temperature is mild, there are few, if any, biting insects, and you're camping on a lake, river, or ocean, you would consider this camping trip the best of times. However, if you go camping where the temperature is hot and steamy, the insects are eating you alive, and it starts raining, you probably would consider this camping trip the worst of times. I have personally experienced both of these situations.

This book is primarily inspired by the TV show, Naked and Afraid. There were many instances where the participants did not seem to know many survival techniques. I have never appeared on this program, but I have been on many campouts, including survival campouts, while in the Explorer Boy Scouts. These campouts were mostly in the swamps of Louisiana. In Louisiana, we experienced many of the conditions seen on Naked and Afraid. I must confess that I have never tried to survive naked. I don't see any situation where one would find themselves without any clothing in a survival situation. I don't think even cavemen and cavewomen would need to survive naked. Therefore, I will not address any situation where