Texts and essays, I like them, haven't wrote them myself.
*Fukuoka:
-On a green mountain
*Thomas Elpel:
-The Art of Nothing
-Tire sandals
-Storytelling
Books which I recommend:
"Woodcraft and Camping", horrace Kephart
"Primitive Technology" 1 and 2, Wescott
"Woodcraft", Nessmuk. Online published at outdoors magazine
"Earth Knack, stone age skills for the 21st century", Blankenship
"The spell of the sensuous", David Abram
"The One-Straw Revolution", "The Natural Way of Farming: The Theory and Practice of Green Philosophy" and "The road back to nature", Masanobu Fukuoka.
More information about Fukuoka:
lifepositive.com,
MotherEarthNews.com
and Fukuoka Farming Website .
Read about seedballs.
"Bushcraft", Mors Kochansky
"Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed", Jared Diamond
"Nature qui a raison" or "Nature has always right", Maurice Messèguè. The title says it all, let nature be.
"Free I got" and "I was robot", Ernest Free Mann. Promoting the Priceless Economic System and a FREE life. His books are free from: Little Free Press
"Ishmael", by Daniel Quinn. A great book demistifying some of the myths of todays civilisation.
"Against His-story, against Leviathan!", by Fredy Pearlman. Telling the history of civilisation from beginning til now.
"Nutrition and physical degeneration", Weston Price.
"The bark canoes and skin boats of North America",by Edwin Tappan Adney. All you want to know about bark and skin boats.
"Flintknapping: Making and Understanding Stone Tools", by John C. Whittaker
"Neanderthin", Ray audette. The diet of our hunter gather ancestors is most healthy to us.
"Deerskins into buckskins", Matt Richards.
"Nourishing traditions, the cookbook that challenges politically correct nutrition and the diet dictocrats", Sally Fallon with Mary G. Enig .
"Participating in nature", Thomas J. Elpel.
"Practicing Primitive, A Handbook of Aboriginal Skills", Steven M. Watts
Books I'd like to read:
"Bushcraft", Graves (australian)
"Walden", Thoreau
"Botany in a day", Thomas J. Elpel's Herbal Field Guide to Plant Families.
"Return to creation: A Survival Manual for Native and Natural People", and "THE CHILDREN OF THE MORNING LIGHT: Wampanoag Tales" from Manitonquat
"The Indian Tipi: Its History, Construction, and Use", by Gladys Laubin, Stanley Vestal, Reginald Laubin
"SURVIVAL SKILLS OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS", Peter Goodchild
"Sacred Plant Medicine" by Buhner
Online bookshops:
eco-logicbooks.co.uk
Re-pressed.org, re-pressed is a non-profit UK based anarchist book distribution collective.
Amazon.co.uk, huge multinational shop, has almost every book...
Videos which I recommend:
"Turtles can fly", shows the life of kids in a village at the Iraq/Iran border.
"V for Vendetta", against the state. Partly based on Guy Fawkes.
"Rabbit proof fence", aboriginal children being stolen from their parents to destroy aboriginal culture.
"Ray Mears", his series about bushcraft and survival are nice.
"Surplus: Terrorized into being consumers"
"Tribe" series, Bruce Parry goes to live in primitive communities to experience their way of life.
"The Fast Runner (aka Atanarjuat)", shows the lifeways of the Inuit
Videos I'd like to see:
"The Great Dance: A Hunter's Story", shows an African tracker
"Pathfinder", about the journey of a young Saami boy
"Nanook of the North", about an Eskimo clan living in the Hudson Bay area
"Year of the Caribou", the true story of a family that moves to the Alaskan wilderness trying to find a better way of life