these two 100yr old+ classics by Daniel Beard are fucking amazing. Farming, hunting, building shelters, fires, legit houses, training falcons, waging kite battles and building snow forts, making boats, lookout towers, treehouses, skinning game, cooking frog legs, leathercraft, woodcraft, and oh so much more. The Handy Book one is organized by the 4 seasons. Also the illustratios are glorious.