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Books > Sport & Leisure > Sports & outdoor recreation > Active outdoor pursuits > Camping & woodcraft
A guide to several RV campgrounds in South Florida with critiques
on price, amenities, services and area attractions. The author has
extensive RV travel experience for the last 45 years crisscrossing
the entire state of Florida as well as the US and Canada.
Who are the real campers? Through-hiking backpackers traversing the
Appalachian Trail? The family in an SUV making a tour of national
parks and sleeping in tents at campgrounds? People committed to the
RV lifestyle who move their homes from state to state as season and
whim dictate? Terence Young would say: all of the above. Camping is
one of the country's most popular pastimes-tens of millions of
Americans go camping every year. Whether on foot, on horseback, or
in RVs, campers have been enjoying themselves for well more than a
century, during which time camping's appeal has shifted and
evolved. In Heading Out, Young takes readers into nature and
explores with them the history of camping in the United
States.Young shows how camping progressed from an impulse among
city-dwellers to seek temporary retreat from their exhausting
everyday surroundings to a form of recreation so popular that an
industry grew up around it to provide an endless supply of
ever-lighter and more convenient gear. Young humanizes camping's
history by spotlighting key figures in its development and a
sampling of the campers and the variety of their excursions.
Readers will meet William H. H. Murray, who launched a craze for
camping in 1869; Mary Bedell, who car camped around America for
12,000 miles in 1922; William Trent Jr., who struggled to end
racial segregation in national park campgrounds before World War
II; and Carolyn Patterson, who worked with the U.S. Department of
State in the 1960s and 1970s to introduce foreign service personnel
to the "real" America through trailer camping. These and many
additional characters give readers a reason to don a headlamp, pull
up a chair beside the campfire, and discover the invigorating and
refreshing history of sleeping under the stars.
BBC Countryfile Magazine praised Dixe Wills for writing
'intelligently and amusingly, with evident excitement and
imagination', qualities that he brings to Tiny Campsites. Here he
presents 80 of the loveliest and most diminutive places to camp in
Britain, many of which are known only to locals. These stunning
little places to pitch are found on farms, in woods, on clifftops
and in beautiful back gardens; they may be under the boughs of an
apple tree in a private orchard or on thebanks of a river. Each
entry features a quick-reference guide to facilities, pubs that
serve food, shops where you can stock up on provisions and local
attractions, and there's a useful Ordnance Survey map to guide you
in.
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