How To Be An Explorer: Outdoor Skills and Know-How for Young Adventurers
How To Be An Explorer is the ultimate practical guide to outdoor skills and crafts, designed to coax kids away from their screens and discover how to become intrepid explorers.   

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 such as:

  • How to light a fire
  • Cooking on a fire
  • Foraging
  • Building shelters
  • Filtering water
  • Tying knots
  • Reading the clouds

Children can learn basic bushcraft and survival techniques to practice repeatedly. 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 Earhart and Matthew Henson, and describe how they came to accomplish such jaw-dropping feats.

  • Outdoor skills and related crafts with step-by-step photos and instructions
  • Illustrated feature spreads on real-life historical explorers who overcame great challenges
  • Aimed at children aged 5–11

The book includes 290 photographs and 130 illustrations!!

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How To Be An Explorer: Outdoor Skills and Know-How for Young Adventurers
How To Be An Explorer is the ultimate practical guide to outdoor skills and crafts, designed to coax kids away from their screens and discover how to become intrepid explorers.   

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 such as:

  • How to light a fire
  • Cooking on a fire
  • Foraging
  • Building shelters
  • Filtering water
  • Tying knots
  • Reading the clouds

Children can learn basic bushcraft and survival techniques to practice repeatedly. 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 Earhart and Matthew Henson, and describe how they came to accomplish such jaw-dropping feats.

  • Outdoor skills and related crafts with step-by-step photos and instructions
  • Illustrated feature spreads on real-life historical explorers who overcame great challenges
  • Aimed at children aged 5–11

The book includes 290 photographs and 130 illustrations!!

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How To Be An Explorer: Outdoor Skills and Know-How for Young Adventurers

How To Be An Explorer: Outdoor Skills and Know-How for Young Adventurers

by Tiger Cox
How To Be An Explorer: Outdoor Skills and Know-How for Young Adventurers

How To Be An Explorer: Outdoor Skills and Know-How for Young Adventurers

by Tiger Cox

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Overview

How To Be An Explorer is the ultimate practical guide to outdoor skills and crafts, designed to coax kids away from their screens and discover how to become intrepid explorers.   

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 such as:

  • How to light a fire
  • Cooking on a fire
  • Foraging
  • Building shelters
  • Filtering water
  • Tying knots
  • Reading the clouds

Children can learn basic bushcraft and survival techniques to practice repeatedly. 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 Earhart and Matthew Henson, and describe how they came to accomplish such jaw-dropping feats.

  • Outdoor skills and related crafts with step-by-step photos and instructions
  • Illustrated feature spreads on real-life historical explorers who overcame great challenges
  • Aimed at children aged 5–11

The book includes 290 photographs and 130 illustrations!!


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781787081178
Publisher: Button Books
Publication date: 03/07/2022
Pages: 128
Product dimensions: 8.50(w) x 10.30(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range: 5 - 11 Years

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

My Discovery 7
Think like an explorer 10

Kit 12
What to Take 14
Reading a map 16
Making a wild map 18
Real explorer: Muhammad al-Idrisi 22

Risk 24
First aid in the wild 26
Real explorer: Junko Tabei 30

Skills 32
Making cordage 34
Knots to know 36
Using a knife 42
Whittling a peg 44

Fire 46
Lighting a fire 48
Cooking on fire 50
Campfire recipes 52
Making a paper boiler 56
Real explorer: Matthew Henson 58

Foraging 60
Edible insects 62
Edible plants 64
Poison plants 67
Real explorer: Bungaree 68

Shelter 70
Stick den 72
Earth den 76
Tree nest 78

Water 82
Boiling water in bamboo 84
Filtering dirty water 86
Solar-distilling seawater 88
Knowing the sea 90
Build a racing craft 94
Real explorer: Jeanne Baret 98

Weather 100
Measuring wind strength 102
Real explorer: Amelia Earhart 104
Air behaviour 106
Make a paper kite 110
Understanding clouds 116
Make a shadow stick compass 118
Make a magnetic field sensor compass 120

Index 124
About the author/acknowledgements 126

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