The Backyard Adventurer

Download or read book Born to Explore written by Richard Wiese and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-05-12 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born to Explore is filled with skills, projects, and essential knowledge for the budding adventurer Explorer extraordinaire Richard Wiese's more than one hundred excellent projects show how to have fun with science and nature, how to not always take the most walked path, and how to learn to "read" the natural world. Discovery does not occur just in the Amazon or deep in the ocean. It happens everywhere around us: Navigate by the stars, Tell time without a watch, Start a fire without a match, Make an igloo, Build your own canoe, And be prepared for any challenge.