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A practical guide to outdoor skills and crafts, designed to coax kids away from their screens and discover how to become intrepid explorers. Mountaineers, seafarers, astronauts, cyclists, hikers, divers, gliders, aviators – even the most famous and daring explorers of all time began with small-scale adventures that gave them the courage and the ideas to pursue their greatest achievements. This book aims to give young people the know-how and confidence to get out and about– with practical tasks and activities, mini-adventures, rustic crafts and by telling some truly inspiring tales of real-life explorers. Throughout, Tiger gives us snippets and anecdotes from his own daring expeditions. Including step-by-step activities like how to light a fire, cooking on a fire, foraging, building shelters, filtering water, tying knots and reading the clouds, children can learn basic bushcraft and survival techniques to practise over and over again. The unique craft activities – making wild maps, a racing raft and a kite – will spark creativity and encourage imaginative play. Not just a valuable resource for learning practical skills, this is also a book to inspire dreams and show that they can come true with the right mindset, perseverance and resilience. Highly illustrated spreads dotted through the book introduce a selection of real-life historical adventurers, such as Amelia Earheart and Matthew Henson, and describe how they came to accomplish such jaw-dropping feats. AGES: 5 to 11 AUTHOR: Tiger has a natural affinity for outdoors skills and wants to inspire and educate others, of all ages, to spend more time enjoying these pursuits – whether that be through adventure sports, outdoor cooking or getting out and exploring their local landscapes. He caught the bug for exploring from his 'crazy' parents and four older sisters, who showed him what was possible and lovingly encouraged his earliest forays in the stunning South Downs National Park in Sussex, UK. Tiger is an accomplished public speaker, having given talks on exploration and nature to audiences of over 250 people, including his old school and local chambers of commerce. This is his first book for GMC Publications. 200 colour photographs, 30 colour illustrations

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The Week Junior Science+Nature Review in recommendations page, Magazine issue 44, o.s. January 2022 Whether it's learning about building shelters, filtering water, reading clouds or cooking on a fire you have (safely) made yourself, this guide from a real-life explorer has it all. You'll also discover more about adventurers past and present. @the_treasure_babes Instagram Review https: //www.instagram.com/p/CYegzAIsOGx/ It's a wonderful book to engage with nature in an exciting yet safe manner which leaves them full of self-confidence and gives them genuine survival skills for the great outdoors. @homeplaylearn Instagram Review https: //www.instagram.com/p/CYgvK67BvJE/ This book contains information on all the things an explorer needs to know - from what to take in an essential outdoor kit, how to read maps, knots, whittling, cooking on a fire, foraging, filtering dirty water to understanding clouds! There's so much to learn and there's stories about real explorers to further inspire you! You could read it all at once or delve in sections that interest you that might help you on your next outing into the wild! @al_humphreys Instagram Review https: //www.instagram.com/p/CW-wRNLKsrW/ An excellent new book for young explorers by @tigercoxexplores @teenyreaders Instagram Review https: //www.instagram.com/p/CYOH3C2q3A-/ A useful and inspiring book for children...a book for all the family to enjoy on a camping holiday or just a fun day outside in the local park. The ideal guide for budding adventurers!

@al_humphreys Instagram review https: //www.instagram.com/p/CW-wRNLKsrW/ An excellent new book for young explorers by @tigercoxexplores

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Tiger Cox is a passionate outdoor enthusiast. He is the youngest member of the Fly Sussex paragliding team, based in Sussex, UK. Taught by his father, Tiger has passed on his skills to countless beginner fliers - even teaching his imprinted (trained to accept humans as their 'parent') Lanner falcon, Safire, who often accompanies him up to great heights on paragliding flights. Tiger has a natural affinity for outdoors skills and wants to inspire and educate others, of all ages, to spend more time enjoying these pursuits - whether that be through adventure sports, outdoor cooking or getting out and exploring their local landscapes. He caught the bug for exploring from his 'crazy' parents and four older sisters, who showed him what was possible and lovingly encouraged his earliest forays in the stunning South Downs National Park in Sussex, UK. No stranger to wild adventures and expeditions, Tiger has taken on many epic challenges. At age 13, he completed a sailing voyage from Sussex in the UK to the Caribbean on a wooden boat that his parents built. The final stage of the journey saw them sail across the Atlantic Ocean in under three weeks without sighting land or other ships. At age 18, he cycled 600 miles across France, wild camping all the way in a bivvy bag - despite having smashed his front teeth in his first training ride (by hitting a lamp post) but began the journey a week later anyway. He also competed in the 2015 world fireball (a racing sailing dinghy) championships in Wales. Tiger is an accomplished public speaker, having given talks on exploration and nature to audiences of over 250 people, including his old school and local chambers of commerce. This is his first book for GMC Publications.

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