Customer Reviews

The Book of Outdoor Knots: Over 70 Knots for Use Outdoors

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Peter Owen has put together 70 of the most common knots and illustrated them quite nicely. The book uses line drawings to show how to tie the knots and provides a short historical and descriptive paragraph on each knot.

I felt more verbage should have been given in describing how the knots were tied, and the sections on Choosing and Caring for Rope were inadequite at best. To his credit, the illustrations Peter used were good enough to overcome the shortfalls in describing how to tie the knots. This book is a handy guide to tying common knots and knowing their uses, but is definitely not a complete guide to all knots.

None the less, as an editor for a Scouting Magazine, I still feel it is a book worth buying and I do recommend it.

I find this book to be pretty useful in explaining how to tie a lot of different kinds of knots, ranging from useful knots for fishermen to climbers, to general purpose for camping, securing loads on vehicles, to tree trimming, etc.

Great for those that are interested in doing things that require the use of some kind of Rope.