Camping Made Easy: A Manual for Beginners with Tips for the Experienced [Paperback]

Michael Rutter (Author)

Book Description

Series: Made Easy Series | Publication Date: July 1, 1997

If you think camping means big mosquitoes, big headaches, and big effort, this book is for you. Camping Made Easy presents a practical, informative approach to carefree camping. After putting to rest the myths concerning the hardships and frustrations of camping, Michael Rutter presents nuts-and-bolts information on every aspect of camping, relating advice garnered from his twenty-plus years of experience. You will learn how to select the right equipment, including tents, stoves, sleeping bags, lanterns, backpacks, and more; plan for a painless camping trip; pack efficiently; select a good campground; set up camp; take fun day hikes and more.

With more than 300 photographs and illustrations to help you get started, you will be setting up camp, stoking the campfire, and relaxing before you know it. Whether you are setting up a tent in a local campground or planning a cross-country camping odyssey, this comprehensive guide will answer all your camping questions.

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

Basics?and a bit more?of the equipment, supplies, and the techniques for their use in the outdoors are presented in this guide by the author of Fly Fishing for the Compleat Idiot (Mountain Pr., 1995). Family camping is explored in a complete chapter and also within sections on camping while backpacking, canoeing, and mountain-biking. The special equipment needed for canoeing and mountain-biking is also discussed. Rutter advises on the related activities of fishing, teaching a child to fish, and wildlife watching. This is a comprehensive guide to camping that should satisfy many patron requests. For most public libraries.?Paula M. Strain, Rockville, Md.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From the Back Cover

If you think camping means big mosquitoes, big headaches, and big effort, this book is for you. Camping Made Easy presents a practical, informative approach to carefree camping. After putting to rest the myths concerning the hardships and frustrations of camping, Michael Rutter presents nuts-and-bolts information on every aspect of camping, relating advice garnered from his twenty-plus years of experience. You will learn how to select the right equipment, including tents, stoves, sleeping bags, lanterns, backpacks, and more; plan for a painless camping trip; pack efficiently; select a good campground; set up camp; take fun day hikes and more. With more than 300 photographs and illustrations to help you get started, you will be setting up camp, stoking the campfire, and relaxing before you know it. Whether you are setting up a tent in a local campground or planning a cross-country camping odyssey, this comprehensive guide will answer all your camping questions. (7 1/2 x 9, 304 pages, b&w photos, illustrations)

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Globe Pequot; 1st edition (July 1, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0762700432
• ISBN-13: 978-0762700431
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 6.9 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,887,148 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book for starters or the experienced, February 8, 2003

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Tammy L. Schilling "tammyl84" (MD) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Camping Made Easy, 2nd (Paperback)

Camping Made Easy is an excellent manual for all of those who are interested in camping, but don't know how to get started. The author outlines practically every aspect of camping that you can think of, including: equipment (with great buying tips), types of camping spaces, cooking and food in various situations, backpacking, hiking, biking, canoeing, wildlife watching, and fishing. There is also lots of really great information about camping (and related activities) with your kids, something that I think most readers will appreciate. I can't think of any questions that you will have that will go unanswered with this book.

The author discusses the basic how-to's of each activity, gives great suggestions for figuring out what kind of equipment you do (and don't) need, offers some suggestions on howt to aquire equipment on a budget, and how to squeeze the most fun out of your trip. He even helps with organizational ideas for storing and caring for your equipment, including his own packing lists.

Experienced campers will find lots of neat tips for making camping life a little easier. For example; if you have ever struggled with a slippery sleeping pad under your bag, try applying some glue or tent sealant to the pad. After it dries, you will have instant traction!

I highly recommend Camping Made Easy. The book is highly useful, incredibly readable, and even funny at times as the author recounts his own experiences in the wild. If nothing else, the menus offered for camp eating will certainly stir a hunger!

21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A GREAT starter guide for family camping, May 16, 2000

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Tim Warneka "Leadership Expert, Keynote Speak... (Cleveland, OH USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Camping Made Easy: A Manual for Beginners with Tips for the Experienced (Paperback)

[I always liked camping when I was young, but didn't get many chances to do it, as the rest of my family didn't care for it - so I promised myself that when I grew up, I would take my kids camping] Now, with two young kids, I started to look around for updated information about how to camp. I found this book in the library, and liked it so much that I bought it. Mr. Rutter offers good advice on equipment, clothes, and camping with children. My wife and I have purchased several items based on Mr. Rutter's suggestions in the book, and we have yet to be disappointed. I would highly recommend this book for anyone who is interested in camping; especially those families with younger children.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Too much information to remember, August 18, 1999

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This review is from: Camping Made Easy: A Manual for Beginners with Tips for the Experienced (Paperback)

My two sons and daughter wanted to go camping. Whenever I do something new we all go to the library first. I found this book "Camping Made Easy" and I couldn't put it down. I took it to the beauty shop, work, and football practice. By time I was half way through my book had a thousand little yellow stickies of what I needed to go back over or write down at home. Why bother? I needed the book so I purchased it! This is a much needed manual and you can be sure it is the first thing that is packed in my backpack!