Set of all three Handy Book Series. Written by one of the founders of the Boy Scouts of America, D.C. Beard
The Fair Weather and Rainy Day Handy Book features dozens of indoor and outdoor activities, with simple instructions and easy-to-follow diagrams for building a backyard clubhouse, setting up a workshop, picnic games, papercrafts, and other diversions. Paperback, 336 pgs.
The American Boy's Handy Book: What to Do and How to Do It is a wealth of projects and games, with practical directions on how to make them. It is the ultimate pre-TV, anti-couch potato activity book, answering the question, "What's there to do?" Softcover, 472 pgs.
The Field and Forest Handy Book: New Ideas for Out of Doors has chapters on packing a horse, on making clothes and moccasins, on camp cooking, on building piers, boats, and sleds. Softcover, 448 pgs
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