| £16.99 | Mountaincraft & Leadership | A vast array of techniques, essential information and useful advice is contained in chapters ranging from Navigation, Campcraft and Expeditions, River Crossing, Mountain Weather and Party Leadership to Snow and Avalanches. The text is illustrated throughout with step-by-step diagrams, charts and tables | MLTE and MLTS | ||||||||||||||||||
| £14.99 | Hillwalking | The Official Handbook of the Mountain Leader and Walking Group Leader Schemes - Packed with essential information and techniques. The book is a reference tool for every walker as well as for those who wish to lead in the hills. Its functional design with easy-reference colour-coded pages, striking illustrations that complement the text and accurate relief and line maps make this book and indispensable guide to the skills required for summer hill walking | Mountain Leaders Training UK / Cordee | ||||||||||||||||||
| £14.00 | The Hillwalkers Guide to Mountaineering | Essential Skills for Britain's Classic Routes - This guide features the techniques, gear and approaches that the active and ambitious hill walker needs to be equipped with to competently tackle Britain's classic mountaineering challenges. Leads the hill walker through technical terrain where the unaware can all too easily get into difficulties - awkward grade 1-3 scrambling territory. Covers use of the rope to abseil, belay and protect ascents and descents on steep ground, the placement of protection, gear selection, navigation, survival, scrambling and first aid skills in a highly practical manner. Describes the basic skills required for safe travel by the winter hill walker. The guides goes on to feature a dozen great British mountaineering routes, which are characterised by an increasing level of difficulty and commitment. |
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| £12.00 | The Hillwalker's Manual | A definitive Source of Reference - To experience the hills at their best and enjoy them full, whatever the conditions, the walker must be properly prepared, equipped and informed. This manual describes what to wear and how to use the right equipment, how to navigate terrain, scale and traverse the hills, and imparts an overall awareness of the concept of survival. It also includes information on hill walking photography. | Cicerone Press Guide | ||||||||||||||||||
| £ 4.99 | Hillwalkers Survival Guide | Fully illustrated mini guide is now back-in-print, it outlines the skills and techniques of hillwalking, preparation, navigation, emergencies and more | Collins Gem | ||||||||||||||||||
| £12.00 | Map and Compass | The Art of Navigation - This comprehensive guide to navigation is aimed at giving you the skills and incentive to get out and experience the outdoors. With the author's own anecdotes and handy hints close by, those new to using the map and compass, and those who have already mastered navigational techniques, will find this guide inspiration enough to get 'out there' and experience the outdoors safely and with fun. | Cicerone Press Guide | ||||||||||||||||||
| £ 7.99 | Navigation | Techniques and skills for walkers. Includes handy Navigational Aid Card | Cicierone Press Guide | ||||||||||||||||||
| £ 8.99 | Navigation for Walkers | Start finding your way to freedom in the countryside - Based on the Ordnance Survey's new Explorer maps, as well as the OL (Outdoor Leisure) and Landranger series, this book takes the reader step by step through the essential techniques of map reading, navigation skills, reading the compass and route planning to complete your sense of direction. | Cordee | ||||||||||||||||||
| £ 4.99 | GPS - The Easy Way | A compass points North, but a GPS tells you where you are, where you have been, and can show you where you want to go. A 'simple' guide to understanding the GPS | Discovery Guides | ||||||||||||||||||
| £10.99 | GPS for Walkers | An introduction to gps
and digital maps - Covers
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Jarrold Publishing | ||||||||||||||||||
| £41.99 | Getting Started with Geographic Information Systems | esigned to make the
complexity of this rapidly growing high tech field accessible to beginning
students, this text provides a basic, non-technical and student-friendly
introduction to GIS. The book clearly links theory and practice, and helps
link the material to the real world by providing interviews with
practicing GIS professionals. It features clear, simple explanations, an
abundance of illustrations and photos, extensive chapter-end study aids,
and generic laboratory assignments for use with any GIS software.
Each copy of the book comes with a free, 120 day version of ArcVIEW 3. |
Prentice Hall | ||||||||||||||||||
| £ 4.00 | Safety on Mountains | Covers Clothing, equipment, navigations, hazards, camping, environment & first-aid | BMC | ||||||||||||||||||
| £ 7.99 | Rope Techniques in Mountaineering | Best-selling handbook for experienced climbers. Includes self-rescue techniques | Cicerone Press Guide | ||||||||||||||||||
| £ 7.99 | Snow & Ice Techniques | All you need to know about winter equipment, how to use it and when. Emphasis on self-arrest. | Cicerone Press Guide | ||||||||||||||||||
| £12.00 | Mountain Weather | Covers all aspects of weather likely to be encountered in Britain's mountains and valleys. | Cicerone Press Guide | ||||||||||||||||||
| £10.99 | Weather - For Hillwalkers and Climbers | Explains basic meteorology and basic terminology of depressions, warm and cold fronts and air masses, how to interpret weather maps and how to make short-term weather forecasts from observation. A full glossary of terms is included. | Sutton / Cordee | ||||||||||||||||||
| £9.99 | Travel Health | Fully
updated features include: Pre-trip planning, with advice on immunizations, medical kits, travel by air and tips for travellers with specific needs. An A-Z of potential problems and treatments, including homeopathy, herbal medicine and other complementary therapies. The complete lowdown on health risks and vaccinations worldwide, plus comprehensive listings of international travel resources, websites and clinics. Safety tips for active travel skiing, scuba diving, climbing together with a handy section on first aid. Some time, somewhere, you'll need this book don't leave home without it. |
Rough Guides | ||||||||||||||||||
| £7.99 | Travel Survival |
Comprehensive information on everything you need to do before you set off. Essential basic strategies for avoiding pickpockets, spotting scams and staying safe. Step-by-step advice for all situations, in all environments, from surviving an avalanche or navigating in the desert to coping with an ambush or a hostage situation. Indispensable appendices packed with instructions, from first aid to making fire. Illustrated throughout with, easy-to-follow diagrams |
Rough Guides | ||||||||||||||||||
| £ 8.99 | Weather to Travel | The Travellers guide to the world's weather. Weather profiles and what to wear for 205 countries | Tomorrows Red Books |
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