by David Baird (Author)
Inspired by children's adventure annuals of the 1950s, Campfire Companion is a marvellously evocative book filled with a plethora of a campfire miscellany. Here you'll find tips on how to find the perfect campsite, recipes for cooking delicious outdoor food, instructions on putting up a tent, toasting marshmallows, suggestions for games to play and songs to sing around the campfire. Woven in between learning how to construct a tepee or fashioning your own campsite kitchen are wonderful literary extracts on the delights of camping.
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Publisher: Spruce
Published: 01 May 2005
ISBN 10: 1840727780
ISBN 13: 9781840727784
Book Overview: Campfire Companion is a nostalgic trip back to one's childhood with 300 plus pages of camping trivia and jammed with 200 charming retro illustrations on the joys of camping. Packed with interesting pieces of history, games, poems, extracts from literature, songs and things to make, these books are quirky, engaging, witty and wise!