This essential survival guide for intrepid young explorers shows the skills and techniques you need for outdoor adventure, from maps and navigation to camping.
Learn the basics - from picking the best campground to knowing how to build a shelter - with clear step-by-step illustrations. Find out why not to camp under a tree, how to make a bed of leaves, and learn useful knots to secure your camp. Once you're safely in your shelter, discover how to forage for food, purify water, light a fire with flint and tinder, and cook up delicious fish.
Find out what to take on your expedition, how to plan your route, and what to include in your survival kit. Then have fun learning camp craft and bushcraft skills. To help you find your way, this ebook shows you how to use a map and compass, or the Sun and stars as a guide. Discover the best way to hike over terrains, including forests, swamps, forests, sand, snow, and ice. Learn, too, how to predict the weather by observing clouds and wind direction.
So start packing your rucksack for an outdoor adventure and don't forget to read Survival for Beginners.
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This brilliant book has step-by-step instructions for basic to advanced camping skills to help you survive in the wild. * The Green Parent * Survival for Beginners is the starting point to equip young readers for a summer of outdoor adventures... From common sense camping tips to extreme emergency techniques, this is a skills manual that could quite literally make the difference between life and death. * Evening Echo *
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Für Kinder
Interest Age: From 9 to 12 years
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978-0-241-44544-0 (9780241445440)
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After joining the Royal Navy in 1977, Colin Towell qualified as a Combat Survival Instructor with 22 Regiment SAS. As well as seeing active service, he has spent over 30 years teaching land, sea, desert, jungle, and cold-weather survival skills to UK Army, Navy, Royal Marines, and Air Force personnel. Colin also provided survival support for Sir Richard Branson's balloon global circumnavigation attempts. His first book, DK's The Survival Handbook: Essential Skills for Outdoor Adventure, has been officially licensed by the Boy Scouts Association of America.
