Cottage Essentials: The Everything Guide for Your Cottage, Cabin, or Camp

Julie Rekai Rickerd is a Toronto-based broadcaster and public-relations
consultant.

Cottage Essentials is a must-have for “true cottagers,” as the
author describes himself. It is both practical and instructive in
dealing with the plethora of problems that all cottagers face at one
time or another, be it an unexpected visit from a black bear or the
lighting of a simple wood fire.

Lennox’s clear advice and meticulously detailed instructions will
benefit beginners and veterans alike. His deep love for cottaging is
evident throughout, as is his expertise on the limitless “need to
knows” of cottage life. He describes (with diagrams) how to build a
woodshed and an outhouse. He demonstrates how to entertain visitors,
provides recipes for meals and drinks. And he shows boat owners how to
care for and fix small engines.

A “walk in the woods” chapter deals with what to wear, what to
carry, how to cope with getting lost (and how, if that should happen, to
build a shelter). A series of first aid responses is essential knowledge
for safety and, often, survival. All that this excellent book requires
from the reader is a dedication to the concept of cottaging.