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| The Happy Campers | 
 enlarge | Authors: Kat Heyes, Tess Carr
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Category: Book
List Price: £14.99
Buy New: £8.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  23 reviews
Sales Rank: 5201
Media: Paperback
Pages: 288
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.2
Dimensions (in): 9.7 x 7.6 x 1
ISBN: 0747586667
EAN: 9780747586661
ASIN: 0747586667
Publication Date: April 2, 2007
Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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| Customer Reviews:
 A book to convert the unconvertable! March 19, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I have turned my nose up at camping for years having holidayed in a van with running water etc...but this book changed all that! We camped happily last year and I'm looking forward to doing it again having realised that it doesn't have to be minimal! If you try nothing else make the chocolate brownies which can be enjoyed under canvas or equally as well in your living room!
A great book, lots of ideas and energy.
Well done girls.
Inspiring and brilliant March 4, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is really inspiring and I highly recommend it if you are new to camping. It has given me the confidence to get into camping. More than that, it's a philosophy of life! Blissful.
Well done Tess and Kat! February 21, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
What a delightful, beautifully presented timeless book; aimed at people who have an appreciation for their surroundings and the finer things in life. These girls have been camping since they were children and as such are an authority on how to camp contentedly and in style.
A cursory glance at this book makes it patently clear that it is aimed at a certain audience, families, groups of friends and couples. I don't know of another book that fills this niche so beautifully. I have only slight interest in outdoor manuals that tell you what equipment to buy, you can get all that kind of info off the internet anyway. The Happy Campers is a book that you will want to keep going back to, it is really so joyful.
We presume reviewer W.J Pye thinks this book is for backpackers, perhaps that is why he scored it so poorly and enthused about Chris Townsend's "The Backpacker's Handbook" the well known authority on desert hiking and how to ford rivers safely. Deserts...!!!??? Give me a break!It never stops raining here why would I need that. And how odd of Pye to want to review a book and score it a zero. Who could be bothered?
And to imply that all other reviews were written by friends is rather insulting to the opinions of others.
 Nice but rather a lot of waffle January 5, 2008
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
This is a 'nice' book, pretty pictures and 'nice' sentiments about camping - you'll find yourself saying "Argh, that's nice". Apart from that it has the odd handy hint here and there - but if you have been camping more than thrice in your life, you won't find any surprises. This is genuinely a book for those who have never entered the world of camping - and it doesn't really claim to be more than that. It's to whet your appetite if you've only ever thought camping is about being continually damp and cold. Trust me, if you've done festivals etc.. you know it. I bought this thinking that it was more a guide to great secret campsites around GB that let you have fires or are enchanting in some way. It's not a guide like that at all (and maybe I was misled by the person that recommended it to me). It literally is a manual of 'things to do before you go and not to forget to take with you', which we all know if we have camped. If you've got a friend who always says they hate camping and will never go, then this might change their minds, but that's about it. Oh, and it's also mostly a recipe book, full of 'nice' recipes ;-). Nothing against Kat and Tess, but a bit airy-fairy for me.
Fabulous inspirational book! July 20, 2007
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
I bought this book on the strength of the recommendations I read here and can say that I was not disappointed at all. This book is truly inspirational. I have toyed with the idea of camping for years now and never taken the plunge. After reading this book we bought a family sized tent and loads of other stuff and have just returned from our first fabulous camping trip with two young children. The book is chock full of practical camping tips for those who want to have fun and get back to nature a bit. There are lists of things to take, both essential and non-essential and the photography in the book is truly wonderful. There's also loads of ideas for things to do, meals to cook and ideas on how to keep children amused whilst camping. Before reading this book I didn't think I could take small children camping. Now I have read it I can't believe I didn't do it sooner. It's also quite a nice relaxing camping read! It is definitely a book I will be taking with me on all future camping trips.
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