Meyer, Kathleen. How to Shit in the Woods

Title

How to Shit in the Woods: An Environmentally Sound Approach to a Lost Art

Author

Meyer, Kathleen

Publisher

Ten Speed Pr, Berkeley, California

Year

1989

ISBN

0898153190 (Paperback)

Illustrations

McVey, J.S., Marilla Pivonka & Pedro Gonzales (black & white drawings)

Table of Contents

Contents

Bibliography

none

Index

none

Pages

77

Categories

environment, outdoors, drinking water, giardia, mountaineering, health, handbooks, humor, defecation

Language

American English (en-US)

From the Book Cover

Most outdoor books available in English fall prey to Victorian sensibilities and fail to mention one of the most serious issues encountered in trekking around the countryside. Kathleen Meyer, river-runner and long-time outdoorswoman, corrects this oversight in How to Shit in the Woods. What was once instinct now needs to be learned. "Until roughly ten years ago, no one ever considered it unsafe to drink directly from mountain streams. You could stretch out on the bank of a high mountain creek and just push your face into the water to drink... no longer can we drink even a drop before purifying it without running the risk of getting sick." With more people in the outdoors than ever, it is important that each of us know how to take care of our own waste.

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