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| Camping for Dummies | 
 enlarge | Author: Michael Hodgson
Publisher: For Dummies
Category: Book
Buy Used: $2.85
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Avg. Customer Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 28764
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 357
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 9 x 7.4 x 1
ISBN: 076455221X
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.54
UPC: 785555022447
EAN: 9780764552212
ASIN: 076455221X
Publication Date: May 23, 2000
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
You love the great outdoors, but you’re not always sure the great outdoors loves you. You can pitch a tent, start a campfire, build furniture by lashing tree branches together–in theory anyway! But while you may not have gotten your Girl Scout Gold Award, or your Eagle Scout with cluster, you can still enjoy a night out under the stars with those near and dear to you, or even work towards becoming a more serious outdoorsman, right? Sure as a bear lives in the woods, Camping for Dummies shows you how to get out there and enjoy the best Mother Nature has to offer. With the helpful advice this common sense guide provides, you’ll be prepared when it comes to: - Destination
- Gear
- Shelter
- Clothing
- Food
- Weather
- Safety
Written by journalist Michael Hodgson, veteran of Utah’s Eco-Challenge and numerous other outdoor adventures, Camping for Dummies cuts out gear-head jargon and antiquated methods to give you, plain and simple, what you need to know to make the smart choices that lead to great adventures. You’ll find out: - How to tie a bear bag
- The delicious caveman style for cooking fresh fish
- The limitations of GPS
- How to predict the weather by observing birds, frogs, and insects
- Ten survival essentials
- How to go canoe, kayak, or bicycle camping
- What features make a good backpack, boot, and other equipment
- When and how to bring along children
Whether the dictionary definition of “tenderfoot” has your picture next to it or you already consider wilderness your home away from home, you’ll appreciate this handy, concise reference. Full of illustrations, diagrams, and directions for finding additional camping resources, Camping for Dummies is your complete ticket to America’s great outdoors.
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 Some good information March 28, 2008
I think this book has some pretty good information in it for the novice and experenced alike. It's nice that the author includes kids but also caters to the campers that leave the children home.
The only thing that I did not care for was that the author is constantly writing about hiking in the woods (for day or overnight), which is great if you are going to the woods, but doesn't write about what you can do at other lacations.
 Good information across many topics September 9, 2007
I already camp and hike but was looking for a book that would cover areas that I wasn't familiar with yet. It does a very good job of filling this need. It would also be an excellent starter for someone who hasn't camped or hiked before. Once you decide on a specific interest there are deeper books on specific areas available.
Beginner Book- For Sure May 9, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought this book because I have learned alot from other "Dummies" Books. This book is a good introductory book for someone who has never went camping. It mostly has common sense ideas and isn't for the advanced camper (although one might find the lists helpful). Few illustrations and the way that it is set up doesn't provide much field use. Overall, a pretty good reference for a novice which I suppose is who the author intended to reach.
family focused, if you like that kind of thing April 3, 2007
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
Plenty of good information in here, but there is a persistent "camping with kids" focus that can be irritating to the child-free reader. It seems obvious that the publisher didn't mention this in the title so as to broaden the book's marketability, but it does reduce usefulness for those who won't be camping with children.
For serious adventure camping only! July 10, 2006
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This book is great for people who want to go pitch a tent up in the hills, but only has a few things to say to those who are headed to the local campground for a family weekend. If you need to know where not to pitch a tent to avoid flash floods, or how to consolidate everything you need into a small compact carry bag, then this is for you.
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