Vehicle-dependent Expedition Guide .... Edn 5a
An expedition can be a half day exploring a hill track near home, two weeks off-road in Turkey or the Pyrenees, a major journey in Africa – or a development, aid or research project in a remote area. The demands are similar.
Work or pure adventure, every expedition needs planning, selection, training and reliability as its ethos. To the authors' combined 60 years' expeditioning experience has been added a cumulative six years' concentrated research to produce and continually revise and update this book – shipping, equipment, clothing, fuels, oil, communications, vehicles, driver training, navigation and emergencies are dealt with, distilled and summarised.
But the book is still only a guide; a time-of-writing-snapshot of the ever-changing, ascending technology and upward spiral of ideas that spark the pull of overland travel. The final arbiter for your expedition plans will be you.
Already expanded by 100 pages, Edition 4.1a had further updates. Planned as a straight re-print – Edition 5 and 5a has nevertheless acquired some important additional content: Sections 1.2 (Shipping), 2.8 (Electrical power), 5.2 (Navigation) and 5.5 (Emergencies) Page size is now 11% larger to make the many diagrams easier to read.
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