EVERYDAY BUSHCRAFT

Have you ever started a fire with a magnifying glass? It seems almost like magic. You hold a simple piece of glass between the sun and a piece of tinder. At first, nothing happens. Sunlight is everywhere—on your hands, on the ground, on the trees, on the tinder—but nothing is burning. Then you adjust the lens. The scattered sunlight begins to concentrate into one tiny, intensely bright point. You hold it there. A little smoke appears. You resist the temptation to move it arou