WRINKLES, or Hints to Sportsmen

[Camellia Wingnut]

My Dear Fellows,
You may enjoy this free PDF by "The Old Shekarry" - a traveller and big-game hunter in late Victorian times who seems to have been impecunious, perhaps a younger son, and who therefore adopted a lifestyle which took him to the wilds. The interesting thing about this book is that he must have been a real trial to the hunters' outfitters, because he kept inventing bizarre equipment which they had to make for him. A case in point is the Poncho which could also be used as a tent and an inflatable raft:

Those were the days!
http://books.google.com/books/about/Wrinkles_or_Hints_to_sportsmen_and_trave.html?id=N0UCAAAAQAAJ
Just the thing for a present to one's great-nephew. . . .
Camellia