Outdoor School: Hiking and Camping: The Definitive Interactive Nature Guide

by Jennifer Pharr Davis, Haley Blevins, Aliki Karkoulia (Illustrator)

Overview

Rewild your life! With metal corners and 448 full-color, highly illustrated pages, OUTDOOR SCHOOL: HIKING AND CAMPING is an indispensable tool for young explorers and nature lovers.

Make every day an adventure with the included:
- Immersive activities to get you exploring
- Write-in sections to journal about experiences
- Next-level adventures to challenge even seasoned nature lovers

No experience is required—only curiosity and courage. This interactive field guide to hiking and camping includes:
- Planning your next adventure
- Essential outdoor gear
- First aid & survival
- Navigation
- How to handle extreme weather
- Crossing dangerous terrain
- Setting up camp
- Building a fire in rain or shine
- Games for the trail
- Finding and filtering water
- Animal tracks, calls, and sounds
- Bird watching
- Plant spotting
- Rock hunting
- What to do if you’re lost
And so much more!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781250230843
Publisher:	Odd Dot
Publication date:	04/27/2021
Series:	Outdoor School
Pages:	448
Sales rank:	143,413
Product dimensions:	8.20(w) x 6.00(h) x 1.10(d)
Age Range:	10 - 14 Years

About the Author

Jennifer Pharr Davis is a hiker, author, speaker, and National Geographic Adventurer of the Year. In 2011, Jennifer hiked the Appalachian Trail in 46 days, 11 hours, and 20 minutes—an average of 47 miles per day. She claimed the overall (male & female) fastest time on the “A.T.” and was the first woman to do so. She lives in Asheville, NC with her family.

After 14 years teaching, Haley Blevins took on a new challenge—hiking America’s longest trails: from the “A.T.” to the Continental Divide, and beyond. She now leads hikers of all backgrounds in Asheville, NC.

Aliki Karkoulia is an illustrator and artist from Greece. She is inspired by the world around her and has a deep passion to highlight its most wonderful parts.

Editorial Reviews

★ 2021-03-16
The subtitle of this book presents a hard challenge to live up to, but this guide manages it.

Divided into five main sections—“Planning and Preparation,” “Hiking,” “Set Up Camp,” “Flora and Fauna,” and “Survival”—each subject area contains chapters that impart the specific skills and knowledge needed for readers to feel comfortable and confident in the outdoors. Skills such as fire-building, finding your direction with the sun and stars, using a compass, knowing what to pack, first aid, birding, identifying plants, recognizing animal tracks, understanding geology, and many others are presented in short, engaging snippets. These extensively color-illustrated informational segments covering the geographic regions of the U.S. are followed by activities labeled “Try It,” “Track It,” and “Take It to the Next Level” that present readers with hands-on opportunities to practice their newly learned skills as well as space to write down notes. With its metal-bound cover corners, a sewn rather than glued binding, and printed rulers—in both inches and centimeters—on the back cover, this is a book designed to be taken into the outdoors and used. The writing is engagingly informative and accurate without being overwhelming. Backmatter includes a list of 101 achievements to track that will help give a concrete sense of accomplishment, boosting confidence.

A thorough, detailed compendium of most everything readers will want and need to know about being in the outdoors. (index) (Nonfiction. 10-adult)

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