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Born to Explore: How to Be a Backyard Adventurer: How to Build an Igloo, Pan for Gold, and Other Useful Projects - Softcover

Wiese, Richard

 
9780061449581: Born to Explore: How to Be a Backyard Adventurer: How to Build an Igloo, Pan for Gold, and Other Useful Projects
Softcover
ISBN 10: 006144958X ISBN 13: 9780061449581
Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks, 2009

Synopsis

Outlines more than one hundred projects as presented by the Explorer's Club president, instructing natural-world enthusiasts on a wide range of skills from navigating by the stars and telling the time without a watch to starting a fire without matches and building an igloo. Original.

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Synopsis

This book covers everything a young explorer should know - ranging from fun with science and nature, to feats of endurance, to lessons in civic responsibility. These include navigating with the stars, telling time without a watch, predicting the weather from flying a homemade kite, running a marathon, planning and leading an expedition, and presenting eco-friendly proposals to city planners. Weise hopes this book inspires the same feeling that moved Thoreau to write: 'Life is not the sum total of the material possessions we amass, but the sum total of the experiences we have and the memories we make.'"The Explorer's Practical Handbook" is the tinder that will ignite the flames of creativity and understanding of the natural world. Richard Weise himself is perfectly qualified to write this book - has travelled to all seven continents. He has tagged jaguars in the Yucatan jungles, captured crocodiles and handled venomous snakes in Australia, achieved the first ascent of an unclimbed mountain in Alaska, discovered 29 new life forms on Mt. Kilimanjaro in Africa, and cross-country skied to the North Pole. By invitation of King Mohammad VI, Richard was the U.S. representative to the Moussem de Tan Tan, a gathering of 45,000 nomadic Arabs in Morocco, and was honored at the 2005 Boy Scout National Jamboree, where he addressed 90,000 people and had a camp named after him.

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Publisher
William Morrow Paperbacks
Publication date
2009
Language
English
ISBN 10 
006144958X
ISBN 13 
9780061449581
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
368