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Born to Explore is filled with skills, projects, and essential knowledge for the budding adventurer
Explorer extraordinaire Richard Wiese's more than one hundred excellent projects show how to have fun with science and nature, how to not always take the most walked path, and how to learn to "read" the natural world. Discovery does not occur just in the Amazon or deep in the ocean. It happens everywhere around us:
Navigate by the stars,
Tell time without a watch,
Start a fire without a match,
Make an igloo,
Build your own canoe,
And be prepared for any challenge.
Acknowledgments and Thanks for Research Help ix
Foreword xi
Introduction xiii
I Explorer Tool Box
1 Altoids Survival Kit 3
2 Your Knife, a Point of Pride 10
3 Backwoods Bow and Arrow 15
4 Miracle Material: Duct Tape 19
5 Fire 23
6 Chopping Down a Tree 37
7 Floating Art: The Six-Hour Canoe 42
8 Build a World War II Foxhole Radio 63
II Safety
9 How Not to Be a Victim of Insects 71
10 Avoid Becoming Wildlife Food 77
11 Taming an Electric Fence 86
12 Ninja T-shirt Sun Hood 88
13 Rumble in the Jungle: Avoid Mr. Poopy Pants 91
III Navigation
14 Maps 99
15 Tracking 118
16 Sky 132
IV Shelter
17 Levitation Station 151
18 How to Build an Igloo 156
V Food
19 Your First Meal Outdoors 165
20 The Paper Bag School of Cooking 182
21 Fishing 191
22 Eat Like the Rest of the World 203
23 Mining for Iron in Your Food 206
VI Weather
24 Weather-You Know More Than You Think 211
25 Reading the Wind 219
26 Mountain Weather 222
27 Weather Animal 228
28 Why Is the Sky Blue and Sunsets Red? 234
29 The Mystery of the Full-Moon Illusion 236
30 Bad Hair Day-No One Is Safe 239
31 How to Make a Simple Thermometer 242
32 How to Build a Snowmaker 245
33 How to Create a Rainbow 252
VII Exploring
34 Lord of the Tree Rings 257
35 A Palm Tree Grows in Brooklyn 261
36 Finding Fossils-Our Relatives from the Past 264
37 City Wildlife Safari 270
38 Panning for Gold 278
39 Thumb Piano, Please 282
40 Lightning in Your Mouth 291
41 Star Trail and Moon Photography 293
42 Collecting Meteorites 299
VIII Giving Back
43 Grow a Jurassic Tree 305
44 Building a Bat House 309
45 Resler Reef 315
Conclusion 319
SourcesConsulted and Suggestions for Further Reading 325
Index 337
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Posted January 28, 2010
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Overview
Explorer extraordinaire Richard Wiese's more than one hundred excellent projects show how to have fun with science and nature, how to not always take the most walked path,...