Born to explore : how to be a backyard adventurer
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Born to explore : how to be a backyard adventurer
Harper, c2009
1st ed
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-336) and index
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内容説明
This book covers everything a young explorer should know - ranging from fun with science and nature, to feats of endurance, to lessons in civic responsibility. These include navigating with the stars, telling time without a watch, predicting the weather from flying a homemade kite, running a marathon, planning and leading an expedition, and presenting eco-friendly proposals to city planners. Weise hopes this book inspires the same feeling that moved Thoreau to write: 'Life is not the sum total of the material possessions we amass, but the sum total of the experiences we have and the memories we make.'"The Explorer's Practical Handbook" is the tinder that will ignite the flames of creativity and understanding of the natural world. Richard Weise himself is perfectly qualified to write this book - has travelled to all seven continents. He has tagged jaguars in the Yucatan jungles, captured crocodiles and handled venomous snakes in Australia, achieved the first ascent of an unclimbed mountain in Alaska, discovered 29 new life forms on Mt. Kilimanjaro in Africa, and cross-country skied to the North Pole. By invitation of King Mohammad VI, Richard was the U.S. representative to the Moussem de Tan Tan, a gathering of 45,000 nomadic Arabs in Morocco, and was honored at the 2005 Boy Scout National Jamboree, where he addressed 90,000 people and had a camp named after him.
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