Vehicle-dependent Expedition Guide: 2nd Edition, Field Manual - Softcover

Sheppard, Tom

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0953232417 ISBN 13: 9780953232413

Publisher: Desert Winds Publishing, 2003

Synopsis

A book to reflect – and implement – the new millennium spirit of adventure. The capability of competently driven 4x4s and the availability of satellite-sourced communications, navigation, images and emergency beacons dramatically widen the scope for modern voyages of discovery.
Detailed and very thorough in its approach to every conceivable aspect of vehicle-based expeditions, the book in its first edition won praise from armchair media critics but, far more importantly, accolades from actual users – the Amazon five-star reader reviews tell it all. Signposting within the book ensures easy access to just the information required. Headings, tables, line drawings and page side-note summaries together with copious photography give the overview when needed.
Clothing, equipment, and vehicles are covered; plus water filtration, shipping, fuels and oils, communications and comprehensive coverage of maps, navigation and driving.
READERSHIP: A book for the outdoor and adventure-oriented, 4x4 owners – private and professional – enthusiasts, university expedition groups, aid agencies, youth organisations, expatriates, military.

About this title

From the Back Cover

The spirit of adventure lurks within us all and has done down the ages. But now the solid backbone of just about every remote area expedition is a rugged 4x4 or pickup. Their popularity and utility in everyday life underlines our latent urge to head for a distant horizon.
An expedition can be a half day exploring a hill track, two weeks off-road in Turkey or the Pyrenees, a major journey in Africa, or a development, aid or research project in a remote area; the demands are similar.
Work or leisure, every expedition needs planning, selection, training and reliability as its ethos. To thirty years expeditioning experience has been added over three years concentrated research to produce and later revise this book shipping, equipment, fuels, oil, communications, vehicles, driving and navigation are dealt with, distilled and summarised.
Easy access, selectability and signposting to this information has been a special aim.

This 2nd edition is revised throughout vehicles, modifications, fuels and oils, tyres, emergencies .... with major updates in the vital areas of communications and satellite-based navigation.

Press comment on Tom Sheppard's earlier books on operation of four wheel drive vehicles THE LAND ROVER EXPERIENCE Editions 1 and 2 and the next book OFF-ROADER DRIVING:
"The most complex subjects are explained with striking clarity and simplicity supported with summary side notes " (Daily Telegraph, UK)
"...unusual distinction of being well written (clear but not condescending) ... thoughtfully designed and beautifully illustrated."(Land Rover International magazine, UK)
"... one of the most comprehensive books on off-pavement driving that has ever been produced."(Four Wheeler magazine, USA)

Edition details

• Publisher: Desert Winds Publishing
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0953232417
• ISBN 13: 9780953232413
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 544