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Basic Essentials Camping, 3rd (Basic Essentials Series)

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Written for camping beginners who do not want so much info they are overwhelmed too soon, a short book of 67 pages for a great price. Camping is actually a pretty broad term anymore... There are tent campers, car campers, backpackers, RV'ers. canoe campers, and on and on. This leans slightly towards backpacking, and does a nice job squeezing in many of the most important points for beginners. He helps you chose some basic gear such as a camp stove, sleeping bag, tent, knives, clothing, boots, pack, etc. The book probably concentrates on preparing food more than anything, and that is appropriate considering where you will be. He also helps put together a packing list, ideas for cooking and recipes, and many important safety tips.
This is a nice supplemental item for your library of books on the subject if you have one and enjoy collecting them as I do.

I bought this book hoping to get something useful out of it, but I was dissapointed when I found out that its information is incomplete and very shallow. I would not recommend this book to anyone.

I bought this book based on the other two reviews for it in the hopes that it was going to be something that I could learn something from. I was greatly dissapointed when I found out the book is made out of some random (and oftentimes too short to be of good use) facts and tips from the author. The knots section only includes FOUR types of knots and the navigation section (at least in my book) was a complete joke; the author briefly describes what a GPS is and how it works and then proceeds to suggest you to learn how to use a map and a compass. There are thousands of excellent books on camping and survival, this is not one of them.

Good book on camping but I felt it could have included more tips...just my opinion