The Advanced Backpacker: A Handbook of Year Round, Long-Distance Hiking

By Chris Townsend

Book Overview

Explains almost everything there is to know about hiking on terrains from the desert to the arctic and in all kinds of weather. This book aims to give you the tools you need for group or solo hiking... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0071357564
• ISBN13: 9780071357562
• Release Date: August 2000
• Publisher: International Marine Publishing
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.5" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Excellent descriptions from experience

The author's experience in long distance backpacking is obvious when he shares his knowledge in an honest and enlightening way.The section on inspiration and reality is well worth reading. He gives a nice little description of the long trails, with his comments and experiences. His food choices and ideas alone make the book worth the price. He includes the best description of chemical purification I have seen in some time. He covers boot fitting (one of the most important items, I think, in backpacking) like no one else I have ever read. Not a rehash of what has already been written (I admit I haven't read his other books), but some critical and important original views on the subject. This book delivers excellent information for the long-distance hiker.