| Author | : Tom Sheppard |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 1998 |
| Genre | : Automobile travel |
| ISBN | : 9780953232406 |
Vehicle-Dependent Expedition Guide
| Author | : Tom Sheppard |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2011-05 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9780953232475 |
An expedition can be a half day exploring a hill track, two weeks off-road in Turkey or the Pyrenees, or a major journey in Africa, but the demands are similar. Sheppard offers advice on planning, communications, equipment and navigation.
Four-By-Four Driving
| Author | : Tom Sheppard |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 232 |
| Release | : 2013-02-01 |
| Genre | : Four-wheel drive vehicles |
| ISBN | : 9780953232499 |
Overlanders' Handbook
| Author | : Chris Scott |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2011 |
| Genre | : Adventure travel |
| ISBN | : 9781905864072 |
Chris Scott and his band of globetrotting contributors and specialists have put together the definitive manual for planning and undertaking a vehicle-dependent overlanding adventure across the wilds of Africa, Asia and Latin America. The Overlanders’ Handbook is written in the same entertaining yet clear jargon-free English for which Chris’s other books are known – it doesn’t assume you know your plug gap from a radiator cap. Planning – When to go; typical costs; documentation; sponsorship; early overland journeys. Vehicle choice and preparation – The Overlanders’ Handbook is the most comprehensive account in print, covering everything from adapting a cheap car to equipping a campervan or 4x4 for months on the road, or even building and outfitting your own accommodation module to mount on an all-terrain truck chassis. Life on the road – How to handle dodgy borders, haggle over a purchase, treat a dodgy stomach and cope with crazy driving conditions. Guidance on wild camping; navigation and mapping strategies; onward shipping; advice for solo women overlanders; travelling with children or with pets; vehicle repairs and troubleshooting; and off-road driving techniques. Continental route outlines – Guidelines on both popular and obscure overland routes through Africa, Asia and Latin America. Includes fuel prices, easiest borders and best seasons, visa strategies, danger zones and regional highlights. Overlanders’ Tales – Half a dozen accounts of global adventures lasting months or even years – in vans, 4x4s and all-terrain trucks – from contributors aged from 9 to 69. Supported by the online resource: www.overlanders-handbook.com
Quiet for a Tuesday
| Author | : Tom Sheppard |
| Publisher | : Desert Winds Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 248 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Desert survival |
| ISBN | : 9780953232451 |
The story of a solo, off-tracks Sahara expedition where despite confiscation of his maps and satellite images mid-Sahara the author went on to complete a demanding 700-mile off-piste route to visit and photograph the extraordinary landscapes he was determined to see.
Lean Fall Stand
| Author | : Jon Mcgregor |
| Publisher | : Catapult |
| Total Pages | : 220 |
| Release | : 2021-09-21 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1646221001 |
A thrilling and propulsive novel of an Antarctica expedition gone wrong and its far-reaching consequences for the explorers and their families "leaves the reader moved and subtly changed, as if she had become part of the story" (Hilary Mantel). Remember the training: find shelter or make shelter, remain in place, establish contact with other members of the party, keep moving, keep calm. Robert 'Doc' Wright, a veteran of Antarctic surveying, was there on the ice when the worst happened. He holds within him the complete story of that night—but depleted by the disaster, Wright is no longer able to communicate the truth. Instead, in the wake of the catastrophic expedition, he faces the most daunting adventure of his life: learning a whole new way to be in the world. Meanwhile Anna, his wife, must suddenly scramble to navigate the sharp and unexpected contours of life as a caregiver. From the Booker Prize-longlisted, American Academy of Arts & Letters Award-winning author of Reservoir 13, this is a novel every bit as mesmerizing as its setting. Tenderly unraveling different notions of heroism through the rippling effects of one extraordinary expedition on an ordinary family, Lean Fall Stand explores the indomitable human impulse to turn our experiences into stories—even when the words may fail us.
A Patriot's History of the United States
| Author | : Larry Schweikart |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 1373 |
| Release | : 2004-12-29 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1101217782 |
For the past three decades, many history professors have allowed their biases to distort the way America’s past is taught. These intellectuals have searched for instances of racism, sexism, and bigotry in our history while downplaying the greatness of America’s patriots and the achievements of “dead white men.” As a result, more emphasis is placed on Harriet Tubman than on George Washington; more about the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II than about D-Day or Iwo Jima; more on the dangers we faced from Joseph McCarthy than those we faced from Josef Stalin. A Patriot’s History of the United States corrects those doctrinaire biases. In this groundbreaking book, America’s discovery, founding, and development are reexamined with an appreciation for the elements of public virtue, personal liberty, and private property that make this nation uniquely successful. This book offers a long-overdue acknowledgment of America’s true and proud history.
Lemon-Aid New and Used Cars and Trucks 2007–2018
| Author | : Phil Edmonston |
| Publisher | : Dundurn |
| Total Pages | : 673 |
| Release | : 2018-02-03 |
| Genre | : Transportation |
| ISBN | : 1459741161 |
Steers buyers through the the confusion and anxiety of new and used vehicle purchases like no other car-and-truck book on the market. “Dr. Phil,” along with George Iny and the Editors of the Automobile Protection Association, pull no punches.
Democracy and Education
| Author | : John Dewey |
| Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
| Total Pages | : 456 |
| Release | : 1916 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : |
. Renewal of Life by Transmission. The most notable distinction between living and inanimate things is that the former maintain themselves by renewal. A stone when struck resists. If its resistance is greater than the force of the blow struck, it remains outwardly unchanged. Otherwise, it is shattered into smaller bits. Never does the stone attempt to react in such a way that it may maintain itself against the blow, much less so as to render the blow a contributing factor to its own continued action. While the living thing may easily be crushed by superior force, it none the less tries to turn the energies which act upon it into means of its own further existence. If it cannot do so, it does not just split into smaller pieces (at least in the higher forms of life), but loses its identity as a living thing. As long as it endures, it struggles to use surrounding energies in its own behalf. It uses light, air, moisture, and the material of soil. To say that it uses them is to say that it turns them into means of its own conservation. As long as it is growing, the energy it expends in thus turning the environment to account is more than compensated for by the return it gets: it grows. Understanding the word "control" in this sense, it may be said that a living being is one that subjugates and controls for its own continued activity the energies that would otherwise use it up. Life is a self-renewing process through action upon the environment.
