Knack Car Camping for Everyone A Step-by-Step Guide to Planning Your Outdoor Adventure

by Burnham, Bill; Burnham, Mary; Gorman, Stephen

• ISBN13: 9781599215051
• ISBN10: 1599215055
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-04-01
• Publisher: Globe Pequot

Summary

This book, part of the Knack series, is to be written following a visually organized format that breaks down the subject into twenty chapters. Each chapter in a "Knack" book has six book spreads presenting information in chunks that are anchored to a set of photographs. The books use series-specific elements - headings, main text, sidebars, captions, picture titles, and other elements - to convey content. Photographs will demonstrate efficient ways of organizing, packing, setting up camp, cooking, and cleaning. The goal is to leave as much time for playing and enjoying the outdoors as possible. Camping, after all, is fun and this book aims to prove just that.

Author Biography

Bill and Mary Burnham are travel writers, kayak guides and instructors who split their time between Virginia’s Eastern Shore and the Florida Keys. The Burnhams have been writing together for more than a decade, blending their love of the outdoors with backgrounds in journalism and photography.

 

Their books include The Florida Keys Paddling Atlas, The Complete Florida Beach Guide, Knack Car Camping, Wild Florida Islands, Day Hikes Near DC, Backroads of Virginia, and Hiking Virginia, a Falcon Guide, which earned a National Outdoor Book Award honorable mention.

 

In summer they lead visitors through historic creeks, bayside marshes and seaside barrier islands of Virginia’s Eastern Shore. In winter, they fly south to explore the mangrove paradise of the Florida Keys and Everglades. Bill is an ACA-certified coastal kayak instructor and has taught children’s kayak camps.

 

In researching the Florida Keys Paddling Atlas, they spent three years poking their bows into every mangrove creek and island along the 100-mile chain, Bill with a tape recorder and GPS, Mary with waterproof camera.

 

Next, they spent six months traveling the entire Florida coast researching Wild Florida Islands, paddling out to every island they could, from the Panhandle to the Space Coast.

 

In 2008, they conducted a 100-mile book tour by kayak, from Key Largo to Key West.

 

They are members of The Society of American Travel Writers (SATW), the American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA), the Authors Guild, and the American Canoe Association (ACA).

 

Their latest articles appear in The Washingtonian, The Miami Herald, South Florida Adventures, Fort Myers Magazine, Hampton Roads Magazine, Virginia Wine Lover, Backpacker, Blue Ridge Outdoors, and Alaska Airlines Magazine.

 

They chronicle their adventures at www.BurnhamInk.com