Used: Very Good/GOOD; 1998 VERY LARGE HARDCOVER WITH JACKET. JACKET HAS EDGEWEAR. BOOK IS CLEAN.

Vehicle-dependent Expedition Guide

Travel

Tom Sheppard

Food, Lodging & Transportation

Desert Winds

Vehicle-dependent Expedition Guide: 2nd Edition, Field Manual

Edition 1.2 comprises the same 2000 edition main book (with new jacket), now shrink-wrapped with a 24pp Peripherals Update Supplement for 2005. This main book, itself based around the sell-out two editions of THE LAND ROVER EXPERIENCE, was hailed by the US magazine Four Wheeler as ".. one of the most comprehensive books on off-pavement driving ever produced ... ". OFF-ROADER DRIVING is not confined to particular brands and marques and includes a distillation and clarification of the multiplicity of four-wheel drive systems and trade names - ' ... the most important Section in the whole book ... ' (especially so with the new Supplement) - together with buying choice parameters. It caters also for those who never go off road but need to know important information about their four-wheel drive system and what makes their carry-all family vehicles different from a saloon car. The book includes a uniquely incisive and straightforward analysis of the dynamics of trailer towing in commonsense terms and analogies - a role for which many 4x4s are purchased. A large proportion of the book is devoted to a methodical, step-by-step and comprehensive look at all aspects of using a 4x4 off-road - safely and non-damagingly to either the vehicle or the environment. For novices, it takes the mystique out of off-roading not only with its content but with its comprehensive glossary. For professionals it offers valuable techniques and rarely seen advice.

Off-Roader Driving, Edition 1.2

Engineering & Transportation

Sheppard, Tom

Automotive

4 X $ Driving: Off-roader Driving by Tom Sheppard 2006

Four-by-four Driving: Off-roader Driving

Tom Sheppard authored two editions of his ‘Vehicle-dependent Expedition Guide’ – a book that won accolades and a reprint order (Edn 2.1) from the Royal Geographical Society and has sold worldwide. He also wrote the well-established ‘Four-by-four Driving’, the fourth in a series, used by the Land Rover driving school (UK and US). To a tally of more than 100,000 miles of desert expeditions and exploration – including the first lateral, 6000 mile, coast-to-coast crossing of the Sahara, for which he gained the Royal Geographical Society's Ness Award – Tom Sheppard now tells the tale of one of his trips: his most recent. ‘Quiet, for a Tuesday’ is the story of a solo, off-tracks Sahara expedition where the author faced ... problems. His maps and satellite images were confiscated in mid-Sahara. But despite this, he went on to complete a complex, demanding and often hazardous 700-mile, off-piste, uninhabited route to visit and photograph the extraordinary landscapes he was determined to see. Not reckless buccaneering; a carefully calculated risk, executed with considerable care. But with a few nasty surprises. The author writes well. His text has been described as ‘fluent and literary’. The story is told tongue-in-cheek – with humour, a passion for the desert, a boundless sense of wonder, a love of nature, technical detail – and suspense. It is accompanied by achingly beautiful pictures of Algeria's pristine Sahara. The story finishes with some sharp opinion and – with signs of a light at the end of the tunnel – proposals for a Protected Area in the Sahara. The design and production values of this book are truly exceptional – minutely-integrated text-and-picture placing and high-definition stochastic print; on sewn 16pp sections to lie flat when opened. As Sheppard says, with a tolerant grin, ‘Not many in our ‘Unh-wha’-nah!’ society will even notice it .

Quiet for a Tuesday: Solo in the Algerian Sahara

Africa

Michael Palin, President of the Royal Geographical Society wrote of the author, in his book "Sahara": 'Tom Sheppard, doyen of the desert.' '...a passion...for this part of the Algerian desert'; '...quick, elfin-like energy'; '...boyish...'. Sheppard's passion, sense of wonder and energy show through in this book. Algeria is bigger than Western Europe but the Sahara's landscapes are known to few. This book is a hymn to their beauty and pristine majesty. No mere picture book, it is a personal account with a strong message at the end. To get the feel of Algeria there is first a little on the non-wilderness - the places against which to compare the majesty of the remote the towns, settlements, people, the transport. And the weather, water, trees - the tools that create, nurture and perfect the wonder of the wild places. The author travelled alone, many miles off known tracks - six solo expeditions over an eight year period, and many before; in solitude, awe, wonder and supreme contentment. His defence of and passion for this unspoiled environment is matched by his passion to protect it. It features superb photography and the highest print and production standards. Buzz Aldrin, the second man to set foot on the moon, exclaimed 'Magnificent desolation!' when he stepped down from the lunar lander. He would have been moved by the Algerian Sahara. But desolation is not the ideal word for this majestic, pristine wilderness. Such raw, dignified landscape touches a nerve in all who encounter it - especially, and ideally, if they are alone to savour the solitude without distraction. Such rare good fortune was Tom Sheppard's in journeys and explorations most recently spanning eight years in Algeria's remotest regions. Many years' desert expeditioning preceded these journeys - years in which the magical combination of landscape and light became embedded in his very soul

Nobility of Wilderness

Specialty Travel

Four-By-Four Driving

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