Foghorn Outdoors: Camper's Companion (Paperback)

~ Rick Greenspan (Author), Hal Kahn (Author) "Anyone who has ever camped out in the backyard as a kid or whose children have waved goodbye after supper and gone off down the..." (more)
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With authority and a good dose of humor, Foghorn Outdoors: The Camper's Companion takes you step by step through the entire camping process. With convenient checklists for gear, first aid and repair kits, groceries, and essentials for camping with kids or pets, you'll find it easy to organize your expedition. Basic outdoor skills, such as navigating in the woods and weathering storms, are covered for those of you camping for the first time, but even expert campers will find these information-packed chapters helpful. You'll delight in the dozens of camp-friendly gourmet recipes for meals such as Tandoori Trout and Mountain Challah. The Camper's Companion lets you enjoy camping, not just survive it. "Foghorn Outdoors: The Camper's Companion is a virtual encyclopedia of all you'll need to begin to move to a place where the sky is your ceiling and the woods are your walls." - San Francisco Chronicle

Product Details

• Paperback: 460 pages
• Publisher: Avalon Travel Publishing; Fourth edition edition (December 30, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1566912164
• ISBN-13: 978-1566912167
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,008,280 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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16 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best, most comprehensive "how-to" camping book in print., May 15, 1996

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This review is from: Foghorn Outdoors: Camper's Companion (Paperback)

Why buy a library of books to learn how to get out of doors? This wise and funny book with the drab title covers all aspects of backpacking, camping, cycling, canoeing for beginners and experts. The recipes are so much better than any of the other so-called "outdoor cooking" books that you'll jettison the others with the weekly garbage and revel in such glorious challenges as this: "Baking a chocolate cake while backpacking is like sex on Wednesday afternoon: gratuitous but lots of fun." The chapter on the Internet is the first of its kind anywhere for outdoor types, and does it all in plain English. No cyberbabble here. Star-gazing, equipment, and fishing guides, resources and checklists, and, ta-da!, TEAR-OUT sections (recipes and checklists) so you can actually burn this book and have it too! These guys can write AND hike, cook AND eat, get lost AND found, and even teach you how to lie in a hammock! (It's an art: you could look it up!) The authors are experts but never make you feel like a klutz. You end up wishing they'd take you along, and that's the mark of a terrific book.