'The most up-to-date and comprehensive guide to equipment and technique available anywhere' - "Backpack" (UK). This enormously practical guide includes everything from essential techniques such as map and compass work to the skills needed for more remote wilderness journeys - such as how to ford rivers safely and how to choose a route through ...
"Crossing Arizona" details an extraordinary journey through some of the harshest, most remote, and most beautiful natural terrain in the Lower 48. In March 2000, long-distance hiker Chris Townsend, inspired by the writings of Edward Abbey and Colin Fletcher, set out on a solo trek to explore the desert landscape that enthralled them. One of the ...
"Prodigies in photography are singularly rare; women prodigies virtually unheard of." - Abigail Solomon-Godeau. Francesca Woodman (1958-1981) has become one of the most talked about, most studied, and most influential of late twentieth century photographers. She started taking photographs when she was barely thirteen and in less than a decade ...
"Rapture" surveys the collision of two glamorous and fascinating worlds: art and fashion. Whether covering an art installation in a SoHo boutique, Cindy Sherman's complicity with the tools of mass media or a Keith Haring image advertising a hip brand of vodka, and whether describing clothes as metaphor or sculpture, the use of street-art graffiti ...
Art critics weigh in on controversial British artist Tracy Emin, perhaps best known for her installation piece, My Bed, in this collection of essays. ART OF TRACY EMIN places her amid her contemporaries, highlighting shared motifs, as well as examines her influences, from Egon Schiele to Bruce Nauman.
After a decade of art revolving around sensation and celebrity, New Art from London identifies the emergence of a more mature and motivated strain of artists. Although far from being a coherent generation of tyros with a manifesto, their work suggests, along with irony, wit and intelligence, a new sense of seriousness about art in Britain. Taking ...
This guide offers essential information and advice on all aspects of backpacking and hiking, covering all backpacking styles, from short to long-distance hiking. This edition contains new material on trekking in challenging environments such as deserts and mountains.
Most people think winter camping means being cold, pure and simple. But that doesn't have to be the case. In this book, Chris Townsend tells how to travel and camp in the winter backcountry - how to choose equipment and clothing, load a pack or sled, pitch a tent, build a snow shelter and stay warm. In addition, Townsend teaches the basic skills ...
In little more than a decade Rachel Whiteread has emerged as one of the most significant British artists of the past fifty years, with a substantial international reputation. Based upon a practice of inverted casting - making space tangible - Whiteread's work offers both intimate and public meditations on vital questions of history, memory and ...
It also presents skills people need to learn not so much to the protect themselves but to minimize their impact on the environment which, in the backcountry, is often fragile, pristine, irreplaceable. The book emphasizes an environmental ethic and explains how to practice low-impact hiking and camping. It is a thinking person's guide to the ...
When Chris Townsend reached the summit of Ben Hope in Sutherland, he walked his way into the record books. After 118 days in which he had covered more than 1700 miles and climbed over 575,000 feet, he had completed the first single continuous journey of all 277 Munros and 240 Tops in the Scottish Highlands. This is the story of that remarkable ...
You already know the basics of backpacking. Now your goal is to hike the entire Appalachian Trail, make a solo trip through Denali, or see the far corners of the globe on your own two feet - you're ready to wander right off the map. No matter where in the world you aim for - the Sierra Nevadas, Scandinavia, or beyond - there's a good chance that ...
This highly sensitive and beautifully written book looks closely at the way contemporary Western artists negotiate death, both as personal experience and in the wider community. Townsend discusses but moves beyond the 'spectacle of death' in work by artists such as Damien Hirst to see how mortality - in particular the experience of other people's ...
This famous corner of the Scottish Highlands and Islands is home to a spectacular variety of mountain landscapes and dramatic coastlines. There is also a wealth of fascinating places to explore: caves and sea stacks, headlands and arches, waterfalls and castles. The introduction gives information about the topography, geology and history of the ...
Leaving Skagway, Alaska, in June 1990, Chris Townsend followed the footsteps of the Klondike goldrushers over Chilkoot Pass to Whitehorse, then north across the Yukon's rugged mountains, wild rivers, and muskeg swamps. 83 days later he crossed the Arctic Circle, struggling to the end of his route through two feet of snow. A travel writer in the ...
This guide offers advice and information on all aspects of hillwalking. It includes comment on the variety and suitability of equipment required, food and drink, navigation and routes, hazards and rescue procedures, hillwalking in winter and a look at backpacking.
This portable, packable, water-resistant tool provides quick access to expert advice on hiking, backcountry navigation, campcraft, food and drink, safety and first-aid, and field repairs. Written by one of the world's best-known wilderness trekkers, and featuring 100 clear illustrations and photographs, Backpacker's Pocket Guide is an ...
Produced in association with the Rambler's Association and Harvey's Maps, this brand new series covers some of the most popular walking areas in Britain and Ireland, combining detailed route descriptions with information on the local history, wildlife and countryside. From gentle strolls alongside the lochs, to the ascent of Britain's highest ...
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