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Product Description: Ultralight Survival Kit is the first book of backpacking tips that is itself ultralight! It focuses on all of the skills and techniques that hikers and backpackers would want at their fingertips while in the outdoors. Perfect for backpackers from beginner to advanced, this book contains: Worst-case-scenario advice you’d want handy if stuck in a precarious situation...read more

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9780762790203 | Falcon Pr Pub Co, February 1, 2014, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Ultralight Survival Kit is the first book of backpacking tips that is itself ultralight!

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Offers backpackers advice on selecting clothing and equipment, including hiking boots, backpacks, stoves, compasses, and tents, and discusses camping, cooking, photography, and wilderness skills

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9780877423652, titled "The Backpacker's Handbook" | Tab Books, October 1, 1992, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Offers backpackers advice on selecting clothing and equipment, including hiking boots, backpacks, stoves, compasses, and tents, and discusses camping, cooking, photography, and wilderness skills

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9780071754897, titled "The Backpacker's Handbook" | 4th edition (Intl Marine Pub, September 19, 2011), cover price $22.00
9780071423205, titled "The Backpacker's Handbook" | 3 sub edition (Ragged Mountain Pr, October 1, 2004), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The author of The Advanced Backpacker and the Backpacker's Pocket Guide offers a handbook for all skill levels of hiking that covers a wide range of backbacking issues, including how to use a map and compass, survival skills, tracking, and more.
9780070653153 | 2nd edition (McGraw-Hill, October 1, 1996), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Offers advice on selecting equipment and clothing, including hiking boots, backpacks, stoves, compasses, and tents, and discusses camping, cooking, and wilderness skills
9780877423577 | Tab Books, October 1, 1992, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Offers backpackers advice on selecting clothing and equipment, including hiking boots, backpacks, stoves, compasses, and tents, and discusses camping, cooking, photography, and wilderness skills

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Product Description: Must-know trail skills: finding your way, purifying water, cooking on the trail, where and how to set up camp Solo backpacking, all-female groups, and hiking with children, seniors, and pets plus ideas for going light and enhancing your trail photography How to handle dangerous situations--encounters with bears, inclement weather, and medical emergencies Backpacker and Hiker's Handbook tells how to plan and prepare for a backpacking trip and discusses equipment, safety, and the essential trail skills of using a compass, purifying water, cooking, and where and how to set up camp...read more

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9780811734622 | Stackpole Books, December 15, 2007, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Must-know trail skills: finding your way, purifying water, cooking on the trail, where and how to set up camp Solo backpacking, all-female groups, and hiking with children, seniors, and pets plus ideas for going light and enhancing your trail photography How to handle dangerous situations--encounters with bears, inclement weather, and medical emergencies Backpacker and Hiker's Handbook tells how to plan and prepare for a backpacking trip and discusses equipment, safety, and the essential trail skills of using a compass, purifying water, cooking, and where and how to set up camp.

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The director of Princeton University's Outdoor Action Program offers a comprehensive guide to skills, equipment, and trip planning for backpackers of all levels, in a revised handbook that includes the latest information on GPS technology, ultra-light hiking equipment, first aid, trip planning, resources for professional outdoor leaders, and more. Original. 25,000 first printing.

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9781400053094 | Rev upd edition (Three Rivers Pr, May 24, 2005), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: The director of Princeton University's Outdoor Action Program offers a comprehensive guide to skills, equipment, and trip planning for backpackers of all levels, in a revised handbook that includes the latest information on GPS technology, ultra-light hiking equipment, first aid, trip planning, resources for professional outdoor leaders, and more.
9780517887837 | Three Rivers Pr, March 1, 1998, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Provides information on the essential skills and equipment needed by backpackers and campers, including first aid, determining the weather, and making repairs at camp

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9780071370240 | Ragged Mountain Pr, November 1, 2001, cover price $10.95

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Product Description: The ultimate beginner's guide: clothing, equipment, navigating in the wilderness, and more. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9781558219403 | Lyons Pr, July 1, 2000, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: The ultimate beginner's guide: clothing, equipment, navigating in the wilderness, and more.

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Product Description: Everything you need to know to make your wilderness experience safe and enjoyable--for the beginner as well as the expert. Includes current information on outdoor products, what works well and what doesn't. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780879612436 | Naturegraph Pub, May 1, 1997, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Everything you need to know to make your wilderness experience safe and enjoyable--for the beginner as well as the expert.

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Product Description: A planning guide from everything to what to bring, to how to get along, to typical problem wildlife, to the history of the huts and more. 182 pages

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9781565791909 | Westcliffe Pub, November 1, 1996, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: A planning guide from everything to what to bring, to how to get along, to typical problem wildlife, to the history of the huts and more.

Product Description: Book by Yule, Leigh Girvin, Toepfer, Scott

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9781565791930 | Westcliffe Pub, June 1, 1996, cover price $25.01 | About this edition: Book by Yule, Leigh Girvin, Toepfer, Scott

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Offers first-hand information on how to prepare for a trek, the types of gear and equipment needed, and what to expect once you'er on the trail

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9780898864434 | Mountaineers Books, January 1, 1996, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Offers first-hand information on how to prepare for a trek, the types of gear and equipment needed, and what to expect once you'er on the trail

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9781879415133, titled "Lori Saldana's Backpacking Primer" | Mountain N Air Books, July 1, 1995, cover price $12.00

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An indispensable portable companion for hiking and camping in the wild offers information on various travel conditions, using a map and compass, moving over difficult terrain, dealing with dangerous animals and severe weather, finding food, and building emergency shelters. Rodale Alt.

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9781564588524 | Dk Pub, April 1, 1995, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: A guide for hiking and camping in the wild offers information on various travel conditions, using a map and compass, moving over difficult terrain, dealing with dangerous animals and severe weather, finding food, and building emergency shelters

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Product Description: Hundreds of field-proven secrets from top backpacking experts for safe, fun wilderness adventures. Tips include unfreezing zippers; keeping sleeping bags dry; picking the perfect campsite; taking shelter from a storm; an ecologically safe way to start a fire; remedies for blisters and other minor discomforts; and more...read more
By John Viehman (editor)

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9780875961705 | Rodale Pr, May 1, 1993, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Hundreds of field-proven secrets from top backpacking experts for safe, fun wilderness adventures.

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