happyflowerlady
Survivalist
When it comes to books about camping, you have missed one of life's little pleasures until you read Pat McManus. Now, I admit that I am somewhat biased, because I grew up in the same little Idaho town as Pat did. He was just a bit (well, about 10 years) older than I was, so I never knew him when I lived there; but I sure knew where most of the places that he wrote about were at.
Pat writes about his camping and fishing trips as a boy growing up in the years after WW2. Money was short, and people had to put things together out of what they had. The stories that Pat writes about camping will have you rolling on the floor. Here is an excerpt from one of his books, "A Fine and Pleasant Misery". It will give you a small taste of the McManus talent, and maybe even inspire you to get a book to read when you are sitting in the house this winter daydreaming about spring.
http://us.macmillan.com/excerpt?isbn=9780805000320
Pat writes about his camping and fishing trips as a boy growing up in the years after WW2. Money was short, and people had to put things together out of what they had. The stories that Pat writes about camping will have you rolling on the floor. Here is an excerpt from one of his books, "A Fine and Pleasant Misery". It will give you a small taste of the McManus talent, and maybe even inspire you to get a book to read when you are sitting in the house this winter daydreaming about spring.
http://us.macmillan.com/excerpt?isbn=9780805000320