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Born to Explore

Born to Explore

by Richard Wiese

2008Outdoor lifeNature craftWilderness survivalCampingNature
4.0
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About this book

Born to Explore is filled with skills, projects, and essential knowledge for the budding adventurerExplorer extraordinaire Richard Wiese's more than one hundred excellent projects show how to have fun with science and nature, how to not always take the most walked path, and how to learn to "read" the natural world. Discovery does not occur just in the Amazon or deep in the ocean. It happens everywhere around us:Navigate by the stars,Tell time without a watch,Start a fire without a match,Make an igloo,Build your own canoe,And be prepared for any challenge.

Themes & subjects

Outdoor lifeNature craftWilderness survivalCampingNatureCrafts
First published 2008

Author

Richard Wiese

First published

2008

Pages

256

Read time

≈ 6h

Editions

7

Language

English

Publisher

HarperCollins Publishers

ISBN

9780061645785

Where to buy

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