Would you agree with me that the American Girl's Handy Book and The Art of War (Sun Tzu?) are not commonly found in proximity?
Not at all. The AGHB is a 1887 activities and craft book written as a companion to the 1882 American Boy's Handy Book. They both give information that would be very useful in turn of the century (1900) skills from that time's perspective. A young person's "survival" guide for the times. Horace Kephart's famous 1906 Camping & Woodcraft book is in there as well as other primitive and pre electric skills books. There's a full Foxfire collection and a 12th edition of the Britannica. Old fencing manuals. Stick fighting manuals. Begin to see the theme?
The upside down book is an old laboratory log book full of notes on what I have tried and what worked/failed in the woods over the years. Oh, and a D&D book.
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