The Pocket Guide to Camping


Book Description

From setting up a tent to cooking over the campfire, this handbook includes camping skills and first aid, along with stories, games, recipes, activities, and fun campfire songs. Illustrations.




The Pocket Guide to Camping


Book Description

A kid’s guide to camping, including everything from first aid skills to fun campfire songs and recipes. The Pocket Guide to Camping has all the camping basics for kids—or beginners of any age—from setting up a tent to hiking a trail to cooking over the campfire. The book covers camping skills and first aid, along with stories, games, activities, and campfire songs. It also includes great campfire recipes that kids can make. This inclusive, family-oriented guide takes you through planning your trip to getting home safely—and is chock full of information and fun ideas.




Pocket Guide to Hiking - Backpacking


Book Description

This book contains everything the novice hiker/backpacker needs to know about the equipment, food, and water needed for a comfortable walk and camp. It also has tips on fire-making, navigation, weather, and a chart of emergency signals that even the experienced backpacker needs.




Pocket Guide to Outdoor Survival


Book Description

This handy guide is an almost indestructible how-to tool. It includes need-to-know information such as emergency signals, finding water and more. Best of all, the guide is waterproof, dirt-proof and pocket-sized, so you can take it everywhere!




The Book of Camping Knots


Book Description

Easy step-by-step instructions show how to tie knots most useful for camping. This book also lists the various uses for each knot, and the best knots to use in given situations. Line drawings throughout.




Camp Out!


Book Description

Provides information and advice on camping gear, setting up camp, food, useful wilderness skills, weather, exploring nature, crafts, games, and other topics for a safe, environmentally sound, and entertaining camping experience.




Pocket Guide to Animal Tracks


Book Description

This is the perfect companion on any outdoor trip or hike. It depicts 85 of the most common North American birds and mammals and their tracks. In addition, it includes basic dimensions of tracks and strides. It also has a handy checklist to record the tracks you see.




My Side of the Mountain


Book Description

"Should appeal to all rugged individualists who dream of escape to the forest."—The New York Times Book Review Sam Gribley is terribly unhappy living in New York City with his family, so he runs away to the Catskill Mountains to live in the woods—all by himself. With only a penknife, a ball of cord, forty dollars, and some flint and steel, he intends to survive on his own. Sam learns about courage, danger, and independence during his year in the wilderness, a year that changes his life forever. “An extraordinary book . . . It will be read year after year.” —The Horn Book




Going Camping


Book Description

What do you need to go camping? What do you do once you reach the campsite? Learn all about going camping in this reading-level-appropriate text! Vibrant photos draw the reader in to the fun of experiencing the great outdoors, while critical thinking questions and a photo glossary introduce nonfiction reading skills.




Tent Life


Book Description

A practical guide to inspire you to get out into nature. Many of us are seeking a more adventurous and centered life, away from modern distractions and stresses. Nature Vibes is a handy, pocket-sized guide packed full of useful tips, activities and fun projects to help you rediscover your natural sense of wonder, develop new skills and ultimately, build resilience. Learn the basics of camping, what to take, when to go and how to set up. Master chopping wood, making a campfire and cooking in the wild. Develop some basic wilderness skills and gaze up to the heavens and navigate by the stars, the easy way. Discover mindfulness and inner peace with nature's own soundscape, and search for your supper and learn to forage for wild food safely. Use a map and compass to guide your hiking adventure, take part in the world's biggest outdoor treasure hunt, and understand basic first aid and other useful skills that will help you thrive in the wild. With a wealth of illustrations, Nature Vibes will give you the tools to kick-start your outdoor lifestyle. Suitable for children 10 and up.