Back to the Wild by Saury, Alain -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright About the Author Table of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter One: Understanding Time and Weather

1.1 Astronomy

The Atmosphere The Sun and the Moon The Planets The Heat of the Planets The Stars Acupuncture and the Hours of Magnitude The Constellations The Earth

1.2 Time

The Divisions of Time The Sundial The Clepsydra The Hourglass Incense Clocks Other Means of Measuring Time

1.3 Understanding and Predicting the Weather

The Major Causes for Variations in the Weather The Different Climates Around the Globe The Various Types of Climatic Classification Ocean Winds Analysis and Prediction Swells as Charted by Mathematicians Tidal Currents The Tidal Wave Meteorological Instruments Temperature and Thermometers Air Humidity Precipitation (Rain, Snow, and So On) Air Dynamics Wind Direction Empirical Forecasts Meteorological Animals The Seasons Clouds The Sun The Moon The Moon and its Influences The Soil Creates the Climate Evolution and Involution

Chapter Two: The Mobile Human

2.1 Getting Your Bearings

The Cardinal Points The Different Constellations The Moon Several Other Ways to Find North Time Zones The Compass Other Precision Measuring Devices The Map Map Relief Reconstituting the Relief on the Map Walking with a Compass Mountain Maps

2.2 Moving Around

The Benefits of Walking Toponymy Regional Architectures Preparations for Traveling by Foot Signs Attacks Epidemics Advice for When You Are Lost A Shelter from the Night Made of Plants Mountain Climbing Caving Basic Swimming: The Breaststroke Crossing an Expanse of Water Navigating

Chapter Three: Finding Heat

The Interpretations of an Oak 3.1 Lighting a Fire

Introduction Matches Magnifying Glass or Shard of Glass The Indian Bow Drill Other Methods for Lighting Fires

3.2 Building a Fire

The Site Different Woods Other Heating Materials Basic Fire Building Types of Fires for Thick Snow Other Kinds of Fires on the Ground A Kind of Raised Campfire Two Kinds of Buried Campfires Three Simple Campfires The Brazier Fires for Providing Light Watch Out for Fire! The Characteristics of Several Woods Used for Heat Cutting and Chopping

3.3 Heating Your Home

Various Current Methods Building a Fireplace Making Your Own Charcoal Renewable Energies Other Means of Heating

Chapter Four: Drinking and Finding Water

Jesus and Water 4.1 Water and its Uses

Definitions Diet Daily Ration Water, Cancer, and Bio-electricity by Louis-Claude Vincent Potable Water Boiled Water Three Water Filters Water, the Source of Life Drainage Irrigation

4.2: Finding Water

The Different Soils Soil Identification Vegetation and Soil Characteristics Radiesthesia or Dowsing Pumps Digging a Well Dew and Rainwater Other Means of Finding Water

Chapter Five: Gathering

The Dignity of Man 5.1: General Information

Foreword Vegetation and Terrain Phytotherapy Salt Endangered and Protected Plant Species in North America

5.2: Some Nutritious Wild Plants

Mineral Salts and Trace Elements Wild Garlic Sweet Almond Wild Asparagus Garden Nasturtium Watercress Alfalfa White Lotus Nettle Dandelion Broadleaf Plantain Apple Blackberry Annual Sea Blite Small-Leaf Linden Bladderwrack Alphabetical List of Other Edible Wild Plants

5.3: Other Wild Plants and Their Various Uses

Oil-producing wild plants Lipids and Their Extractions Nuts Olive The Sunflower List of Other Oil-Producing Plants Some Wild, Oil-Producing Plants That Can be Used for Lighting Wild Plants to Smoke The Smoke Belladonna Eucalyptus Escarole lettuce List of Other Smokable, Wild Plants Wild Honey Plants Natural or Unnatural Honey—Carbohydrates Scotch Heather The Fir Thyme List of Other Honey-Producing Plants List of Pollinating Plants Wild Plants for Flour Grains and Civilizations Orchard Grass Plants for Textiles Cotton, Hemp, Nettle Wild Flax Wild Plants Used in Soap Chestnut, Ivy, Arum, White Campion, etc Soapwort Ash Wood Washing Powder Plants For Paper Plants For Tincture Plants For Ink Various Uses of Plants

5.4: Some nutritional mushrooms

Composition Field Mushroom Modes of Reproduction Termitomyces The cep Cauliflower Mushroom The Black Chanterelle The Chanterelle The Red Pine Mushroom The Parasol Mushroom The Scotch Bonnet Mushroom The Common Morel Mushroom The Wood Hedgehog Mushroom The Bare-Toothed Russula Mushroom The Mushrooms Of Rudolf Steiner A Deadly Mushroom: The Amanita phalloides The Cultivated Mushroom and its Farming Other kinds of farming

Chapter Six: Cooking

The Dietary Gospel of Jesus 6.1: Essential dietary notions—Nutritious Ingredients

Chewing Proteins Carbohydrates Lipids Vitamins Trace Elements and Minerals Water Chlorophyll Table of Elements According to their Digestive Compatibility The Importance of Nutrition The Fast Radio Vitality of Food Bioelectric food Food and Seasons

6.2: Some important recipes

A Recipe for Sourdough Bread The Bread of Old Pilgrim Crêpes Bread Baked in the Sun Sprouted Wheat The Wheat Grains Ground Wheat Wheat Flakes Wheat Flour Semolina Starch Vegetable Paste Chopped Vegetables The thousand and one green salads Soup and Pottage Happy Lentils Mild Beans Stuffed Squash Terrine for a crowd Changing Landscapes The Pasture Omelet

6.3: Cooking and Fire

High-Quality Materials and Baking Polynesian Fire Trapper Oven Outdoor Kitchen Wild Kitchen Cooking in Wet Weather

Chapter Seven: Preserving

7.1: Methods of preservation

Living Food Natural Preserves Suggestions Short-Term Storage

A. Desired Places B. Useful Objects

The Downfall of Sanitation

A. The Material B. User Manual C. The Downfalls

Long-Term Storage

A. In Brine B. In Oil C. In Vinegar D. Natural E. In Silos

Recipes

a. Chestnuts from Ardèche b. Sausages from Auvergne c. Cakes from Gâtinais d. Jam from Burgundy

7.2 Preserving food energy

Milk and Dairy Products

a. Milk b. Curdled milk c. Butter d. Yogurt e. Cheese

Eggs Honey Sugar and its substitutes Beans Fish Meat Fruit Oil-Producing Fruit and Oils Jam Grains Mushrooms

7.3 Beverages

Unfermented Drinks Fermented drinks The Principle of Distillation Infusions

Chapter Eight: Tame or Hunt and Fish

8.1: Domesticated animals and their habitat

The chicken and the chicken coop Homage to the chicken The Mobile Coop The Immobile Coop Schedule Nutrition The Rooster The cow and the barn The Barn Watering Feeding (Milk Cow) Feeding (Calf) Feeding (steer) The bull Milking Gandhi’s Cow Guido Gezelle’s Verse The goat and the goat farm The Goat Farm Watering the Goat Feeding Milking The Billy Goat The sheep and the fold The Sheep Pen Watering Sheep Feeding Milking The Ram The Donkey, the Horse and the Stable The Stable The Ass Cleaning Harness Watering Diet Horse Grooming Shoeing Workhorse Harnessing Feeding The Stallion Pigs and the pigsty The pigpen The pig Diet The boar Poultry Turkey The Goose Ducks The bee, the hive, and the honey The Common Hive The Hive with a Wooden Top or Straw Capturing a Wild Swarm The Swarm’s Introduction through the Top of a Framed Hive Harvesting, Extraction, Maturation and Conditioning Birth Signs of the end of term The appearance of the little one Caring for… Gestation Disease Monitoring hygiene General signs of health Signs of disease Bestiary

8.2: The so-called wild animal

The animal and the child The indignity of man Save lives

8.3: Freshwater fish

History of cane The fishing pole Accessories Lures and bait Types of freshwater fishery Introduction to some freshwater fish Fishing calendar Other

8.4: Saltwater fish

The tides Clothing and gear Crustacean Rock Mollusks Sand Mollusks Introduction to some fish of the sea Some types of fishing Offshore fishing

8.5: Hunting

Trade Arms and modern ammunition Contemporary hunting methods Some game Hunting Weapons Bow and arrows Various traps

8.6: Appendix: Endangered and Protected Species

Vertebrate Mammals Birds Reptiles Amphibians Fishes Invertebrate Clams Snails Insects Arachnids Crustaceans Corals Non-Flowering Plants Conifers & cycads Ferns & Fern Allies Lichens Endangered Animals Worldwide Useful addresses

Chapter Nine: Shelter

The natural habitat 9.1: Wild constructions

Basic tools for building Make a plan and produce a model Felling The lashing Mortise and Tenon joints Pegs and half-lapped joints Threaded spindles Different kinds of wild construction

9.2: Some simple shelters

Igloo or Eskimo hut The tipi The tree house The Mongolian yurt The Borie A little shallow cave and planning The Dome Others

9.3: Contemporary Techniques and Material

Tools of masonry Binders Materials of masonry Concrete An engine-less concrete mixer Building the foundations Floor coverings Types of coverings Some simple structures made of earth Breaking and Entering and Squatting

Chapter Ten: To Create

10.1: Sewing

Knitting Crochet Weaving Wool Other fibers of plant and animal origin: Flax and hemp processing Silk and the worm Vegetable dyes Simple, healthy suits

10.2: Pottery

Definition Clay molds and composition Clay preparation Shaping Enamel Baking and ovens Fuel Temperature control Many applications for terracotta

10.3. Other crafts

Macramé Basketry Tanning Glass Stonemasonry

10.4: Woodwork

Cutting the trunk The tree Some of the most common woods Carpentry tools Sharpening tools Assemblage The work bench Two very helpful fabrications

10.5: Metalwork

The blacksmith Tools Anvil The forge Coal Installing the forge Forge and fire Fire and iron Cast iron Steel

10.6: Various fabrications

The bed Paper The candle The oil lamp Brooms and brushes Wooden clogs Needles and buttons Hot water and hose Putty Rope thistle Organic toilets A wild shower Knots Fencing Oil and its extraction Taping Musical instruments Birch bark glasses Polish

Chapter Eleven: Planting

11.1: Organic farming

The soil and organic farming The compost Natural fertilizers other than composts Weeds Earthworms Basic tools for the good gardener The plow Coverings and the chassis Building the chassis The greenhouse Sowing Favorable and unfavorable vegetation association Crop rotations The wheat crop Beet cultivation

11.2: Reforestation

Hedge use Bettering existing hedges Replanting hedges Hedge steering and maintenance Reforestation Grafts and cuttings

11.3 Appendix: Make a pond

Chapter Twelve: Heal and Save

12.1 Major accidents

Wounds Burns Frostbite Hemorrhages Sprains and dislocations Fractures Suffocation Snakebites Animal and insect bites Accidental loss of a body part Poisoning Loss of consciousness Unexpected delivery Gonorrhea Legal obligation

12.2: Rescue

Stretchers and transport for the wounded Carrying the injured Injections Emergency kit Cabbage, the poor man’s medicine Indoor fire Forest fires Drowning rescue Quicksand Accidents, illnesses, consequence and alternative medicine

12.3: Appendix

Chapter Thirteen: Subtle Nourishment

13.1: Abstinence and Sensitivity

Our necessities: what are our needs? Harmony, Vitality and Fasting Hibernation, Reception and Transmission Cause and Effect of Wisdom The only questions: To be or not to be? Our threatened and invalidated senses

13.2: Air

Definition Deep breathing Sound vibration Praying aloud Scents

13.3: Light

Definition General effects Solar exposure and man Shapes, volumes, colors Darkness, rest, sleep, death

13.4: Creativity

The poet and the artist Creation and Vocation Creative needs

13.5: Love

Two halves of an orange Eros, the temporal Conception Gestation Prenatal eugenics Painless childbirth Violence-free birth Nursing Guidance Mettã and Eternity

Afterword

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