Whether you are backpacking for the first time or a veteran follower of the trails, this enormously practical guide includes everything you need to know, from essential techniques such as map and compass work to the skills needed for more remote wilderness journeys. The Backpacker's Handbook also gives you the latest information on gear. You'll find the last word on:
How to choose packs and footwear--and make sure they fit
What clothing to take on the trail
Tents, tarps, stoves, water purifiers, and other...
What you need to know before you hit the trails
Whether you are backpacking for the first time or a veteran follower of the trails, t...
This highly sensitive and beautifully written book looks closely at the way contemporary Western artists negotiate death, both as personal experience and in the wider community. Townsend discusses, but moves beyond, the ""spectacle of death"" in work by artists such as Damien Hirst to see how mortality--in particular the experience of other people's death--brings us face to face with profound ethical and even political issues. He looks at personal responses to death in the work of artists as varied as Francis Bacon, Tracey Emin and Derek Jarman, whose film Blue is discussed here in...
This highly sensitive and beautifully written book looks closely at the way contemporary Western artists negotiate death, both as personal experien...
This provocative book on conservation and the outdoors from one of Britain's leading walkers and writers will both provoke and illuminate the wild land debate.
This provocative book on conservation and the outdoors from one of Britain's leading walkers and writers will both provoke and illuminate the wild lan...
