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How to be an explorer : outdoor skills and know-how for young adventurers /

Cox, Tiger,

How to be an explorer : outdoor skills and know-how for young adventurers / Outdoor skills and know-how for young adventurers. Tiger Cox. - Lewes, East Sussex : Button Books, 2021. - 127 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm

Subtitle from cover. Include index.

My discovery. Think like an explorer -- Kit. What to take -- Reading a map -- Making a wild map -- Real explorer: Muhammad al-Idrsisi -- Risk. First aid in the wild -- Real explorer: Junko Tabei -- Skills. Making cordage -- Knots to know -- Using a knife -- Whittling a peg -- Fire. Lighting a fire -- Cooking on fire -- Campfire recipes -- Making a paper boiler -- Real explorer: Matthew Henson -- Foraging. Edible insects -- Edible plants -- Poison plants -- Real explorer: Bungaree -- Shelter. Stick den -- Earth den -- Tree nest -- Water. Boiling water in bamboo -- Filtering dirty water -- Solar-distilling seawater -- Knowing the sea -- Build a racing raft -- Real explorer: Jeanne Baret -- Weather. Measuring wind strength -- Real explorer: Amelia Earhart -- Air behaviour -- Make a paper knife -- Understanding clouds -- Make a shadow stick compass -- Make a magnetic field sensor compass.

"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." --publisher's website.

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