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Actions Displays	Frontiersman's Pocket-Book Remove from selection Add to selection TitleThe Frontiersman's Pocket-Book Author Roger Pocock (author)‎ EditionSecond impression Place of publicationLondon PublisherJohn Murray Year of publication1911 Paginationxxxii, 463 p., unnumbered pages for notes IllustrationsIllus., black and white drawings and diagrams Dimensions10.9 x 14.9 cm Materialbook Class numberGV200.5 .P63 1911 NotesDes Pawson Collection Subjectwilderness survival, knots and splices, camping, frontier and pioneer life, Canada The Countess Mountbatten's Own Legion of Frontiersmen was conceived and organized in 1905 as a body of frontier sentinels, and they first published The Frontiersman's Pocket-Book in 1909 as their training and survival manual. Compiled and edited by Roger Pocock (1865-1941), founder of the Frontiersmen. The Frontiersman's Pocket-Book remains a useful, if dated, guide to living and working in the bush, as well as covering how to conduct guerrilla warfare. Covers topics such as pathfinding, water, food, fire, camps and expeditions, means of travel from horses to boats to motor cars, training (such as scouting and reconnaissance, signals, and shooting), morale, and medical and surgical treatment.

TitleThe Frontiersman's Pocket-Book

Author

EditionSecond impression

Place of publicationLondon

Year of publication1911

Paginationxxxii, 463 p., unnumbered pages for notes

IllustrationsIllus., black and white drawings and diagrams

Dimensions10.9 x 14.9 cm

Materialbook

Class numberGV200.5 .P63 1911

NotesDes Pawson Collection

The Countess Mountbatten's Own Legion of Frontiersmen was conceived and organized in 1905 as a body of frontier sentinels, and they first published The Frontiersman's Pocket-Book in 1909 as their training and survival manual. Compiled and edited by Roger Pocock (1865-1941), founder of the Frontiersmen. The Frontiersman's Pocket-Book remains a useful, if dated, guide to living and working in the bush, as well as covering how to conduct guerrilla warfare. Covers topics such as pathfinding, water, food, fire, camps and expeditions, means of travel from horses to boats to motor cars, training (such as scouting and reconnaissance, signals, and shooting), morale, and medical and surgical treatment.