Mountain Travellers' Handbook
With more than 60 contributors, this book is an essential resource for the trekkers and mountain expedition leader. It covers a wide range of topics from deciding where to go and when, to choosing the right equipment & clothing, to dealing with altitude sickness and other mountains hazards, to improving your mountain photography. Paul Deegan, British Mountaineering Council, 2002. ISBN 0 903908-47-6. £13.
Polar Expeditions
The contributors to this book have wide polar experience, based on many journeys to, or years of scientific endeavour in both the Arctic and Antarctic. Intended as a starting point for those planning trips to polar environments, the book includes sections on polar camp craft, transport, navigation, communications, safety, photography and medicine. Rachel Duncan (ed), 4th Edition 2003. ISBN 0 907649-91-2. 114pp. illus. Price £12.50 or you can download a PDF file for free by following the link on the right.
Tropical Forest Expeditions
Techniques and equipment, including navigation, camping and river travel, with notes on fieldwork and accessing the canopy. Clive Jermy & Roger Chapman, Revised edition 2002. ISBN 0 90764984 X. 192pp. illus. Price £12.50 or you can download a PDF file free by following the link on the right.
Vehicle-dependent Expeditions - New stock now available
Edition 2.1 - slightly revised second edition of this hugely popular book which gives advice on all aspects of planning vehicle-based expeditions including choosing a vehicle, shipping, food and fuel, navigation and driving techniques. Tom Sheppard. Desert Winds, 2003. ISBN 978-0-9532324-4-4. £39.95 incl p&p in UK, £46 EU, £70 USA and rest of world.
Four-by-Four Driving
This book is about 4x4s: selecting them and driving them, not just about off-road driving – though there’s quite a bit of that, plus something on expeditions to kindle the embers of all who buy such vehicles.Tom Sheppard, 2006. Desert Winds. ISBN 978-0-9532324-3-7. Price £16.00 incl. delivery in the UK. Due to the heavy weight of this book we charge extra for overseas postage.