Loading…
FIND YOUR KNOWLEDGE COMPANION
Start with a question. Find knowledge that understands.
“Outdoors” · 10 ReesMatched against knowledge: the 10 most relevant. Excerpts come from the matching passage.
Answers questions on Nessmuk's Woodcraft and Camping: light outfits, camp fires, canoes, cooking in the woods and keeping insects off, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.
“### GETTING LOST—CAMPING OUT—ROUGHING IT OR SMOOTHING IT—INSECTS—CAMPS, AND HOW TO MAKE THEM ith a large majority of prospective tourists and outers, "camping o…”
Answers questions on the 1911 Boy Scouts Handbook: the Scout Law, camping, knots, woodcraft and nature study, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.
“Out-door Exercises Each day should have its out-door exercises. Walking is a splendid form of exercise. Walk to school or business; don't ride unless absolutely…”
Answers questions on Izaak Walton's The Compleat Angler: trout, carp, chub and other fish, baits and the contemplative life, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.
“Or if you bait your hooks thus with live fish or frogs, and in a windy day, fasten them thus to a bough or bundle of straw, and by the help of that wind can get…”
Answers questions on A. Hyatt Verrill's Knots, Splices and Rope Work: practical knots, hitches, bends and splices, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.
“### By”
Answers questions on Elsie de Wolfe's The House in Good Taste: light, colour, suitability and furnishing each room of the house, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.
“… there is nothing so pleasant as eating outdoors. The annual migration of Americans to Europe is responsible for the introduction of this excellent custom. Fren…”
Answers questions on Gertrude Jekyll's Wood and Garden: colour in the flower border, woodland planting and the garden through the year, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the month.
“# WOOD AND GARDEN”
Answers questions on L. H. Bailey's Manual of Gardening: soil, planting, the vegetable garden, fruit trees, pruning and ornamental planting, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.
“There are two types of outdoor gardening in which the progress of the season is not definitely expressed,—in the carpet-bedding kind, and in the subtropical kin…”
Answers questions on Francis Bacon's Essays: short counsels on studies, truth, friendship, ambition, revenge and other topics, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the essay.
“## Of Gardens”
Answers travel questions on New Zealand and Auckland: getting around, tramping, the outdoors and sights, citing the Wikivoyage guides (CC BY-SA). Check current details before you travel.
“### Outdoors and adventure Outdoor and adventure activities include: - Bungy Jumping – The modern bungy jumping was invented here by New Zealander A.J. Hackett.…”
Answers questions on Thoreau's Walden, two years of simple living by Walden Pond, quoting the 1854 text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.
“We may imagine a time when, in the infancy of the human race, some enterprising mortal crept into a hollow in a rock for shelter. Every child begins the world a…”
