How To Be An Explorer

Outdoor Skills and Know-How for Young Adventurers

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

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Mountaineers, seafarers, astronauts, cyclists, hikers, divers, gliders, aviators – even the most famous and daring explorers of all time began with small-scale adventures that gave them the courage and the ideas to pursue their greatest achievements. This book aims to give young people the know-how and confidence to get out and about – with practical tasks and activities, mini-adventures, rustic crafts and by telling some truly inspiring tales of real-life explorers. Throughout, Tiger gives us snippets and anecdotes from his own daring expeditions.Including step-by-step activities like how to light a fire, cooking on a fire, foraging, building shelters, filtering water, tying knots and reading the clouds, children can learn basic bushcraft and survival techniques to practise over and over again. The unique craft activities – making wild maps, a racing raft and a kite – will spark creativity and encourage imaginative play.Not just a valuable resource for learning practical skills, this is also a book to inspire dreams and show that they can come true with the right mindset, perseverance and resilience. Highly illustrated spreads dotted through the book introduce a selection of real-life historical adventurers, such as Amelia Earheart and Matthew Henson, and describe how they came to accomplish such jaw-dropping feats.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2021-10-07
Mått215 x 260 x 19 mm
Vikt758 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor128
FörlagButton Books
ISBN9781787081178

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Tiger Cox has a natural affinity for outdoors skills and wants to inspire and educate others, of all ages, to spend more time enjoying these pursuits – whether that be through adventure sports, outdoor cooking or getting out and exploring their local landscapes. He caught the bug for exploring from his ‘crazy’ parents and four older sisters, who showed him what was possible and lovingly encouraged his earliest forays in the stunning South Downs National Park in Sussex, UK. Tiger is an accomplished public speaker, having given talks on exploration and nature to audiences of over 250 people, including his old school and local chambers of commerce. How To Be An Explorer is his first book for GMC Publications.

My Discovery 7Think like an explorer 10Kit 12What to Take 14Reading a map 16Making a wild map 18Real explorer: Muhammad al-Idrisi 22 Risk 24First aid in the wild 26Real explorer: Junko Tabei 30 Skills 32Making cordage 34Knots to know 36Using a knife 42Whittling a peg 44 Fire 46Lighting a fire 48Cooking on fire 50Campfire recipes 52Making a paper boiler 56Real explorer: Matthew Henson 58 Foraging 60Edible insects 62Edible plants 64Poison plants 67Real explorer: Bungaree 68 Shelter 70Stick den 72Earth den 76Tree nest 78 Water 82Boiling water in bamboo 84Filtering dirty water 86Solar-distilling seawater 88Knowing the sea 90Build a racing craft 94Real explorer: Jeanne Baret 98 Weather 100Measuring wind strength 102Real explorer: Amelia Earhart 104Air behaviour 106Make a paper kite 110Understanding clouds 116Make a shadow stick compass 118Make a magnetic field sensor compass 120 Index 124About the author/acknowledgements 126