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How to be an explorer / Tiger Cox.

Cox, Tiger, (author.).

Summary:

A 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 like how to light a fire, cooking on a fire, foraging, building shelters, filtering water, tying knots and reading the clouds, children can learn basic bushcraft and survival techniques to practise over and over again. 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 Earheart and Matthew Henson, and describe how they came to accomplish such jaw-dropping feats. Sales points: Outdoor skills and related crafts with step-by-step photos and instructions Illustrated feature spreads on real-life historical explorers who overcame great challenges.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781787081178
  • ISBN: 1787081176
  • Physical Description: 127 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
  • Publisher: Lewes, East Sussex, UK : Button Books, 2021.

Content descriptions

General Note:
"Outdoor skills and know-how for young adventurers"--Cover.
Formatted Contents Note:
My discovery -- Think like an explorer -- Kit -- What to take -- Reading a map -- Making a wild map -- Real explorer: Muhammad al-Idrisi -- 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 kite -- Understanding clouds -- Make a shadow stick compass -- Make a magnetic field sensor compass.
Subject: Outdoor recreation for children > Juvenile literature.
Outdoor life > Juvenile literature.
Outdoor recreation > Juvenile literature.
Wilderness survival.
Camping.
Survival.
Genre: Nonfiction
Children's Arts, Music & Photography
Children's Craft & Hobby
Children's Sports & Outdoors
Juvenile works.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at scottsboropl.

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  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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