This lively and informative guide helps young people take their first steps toward discovering the beauty and vitality of the world's wild places. In five easy-to-read chapters, Take a Hike! covers everything from getting in shape for the trail and sorting out the bewildering array of gear to reading the weather and avoiding getting lost.
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Grade 4-7-- This pedestrian guide for beginners won't inspire many to search out the joy of the great outdoors. In a rather dry style, it covers getting into shape, trail gear, understanding maps, reading the weather, trail walking and maintenance, flowers, trees, seeds, and rocks. In five easy chapters, Foster offers many tips for hiking and camping without destroying the ecosystem. Also included are a fully annotated bibliography, useful lists, and addresses for trail information. The shaded pencil drawings range from innocuous to helpful; there are no photographs. The three map samples don't give enough instruction in map reading for novices. Although the book exhibits plenty of concern for the environment, it shows very little for the hiker. Safety techniques are not well covered; little mention is made of survival techniques; no stress is given to the need to hike with a companion. Better recent books are: Kid Camping from Aaaiii! to Zip (Lothrop, 1979) by Patrick F. McManus and Camping and Orienteering (Warwick, 1990) by Michael Jay. Librarians will want to hang on to Art Thomas's Backpacking Is for Me (Lerner, 1980), Kids Camping (Doubleday, 1973) by Aileen Paul, or First Book of Camping (Watts, 1977; all o.p.) by E. C. James. For a very comprehensive paperback manual, turn to Margaret Fuller's Mountains (Wiley, 1989). --Susannah Price, Boise Public Library, ID
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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