Author: Loretta Sponsler Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781517292966 Category : Languages : en Pages : 30
Book Description
Children love books, almost as much as they love camping! "Goodnight, Campsite," is the perfect place for young readers to start a great outdoor adventure and discover camping options along the way - options from tents to various recreational vehicles (RVs). "Goodnight, Campsite," is set in a beautiful nature park. The story follows visitors as they explore the park during the day (hiking, biking, fishing, etc.), and then returns with them to their campsite at night. Preschool-aged children will love the beautiful and colorful pictures - and searching for the squirrel hiding in the pictures. Rhyming text will keep children engaged, as they build sound associations and phonemic skills. Also included in the book is a Campsite Bingo game!
Author: Charlie Hailey Publisher: LSU Press ISBN: 080713323X Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 360
Book Description
Camping is perhaps the quintessential American activity. We camp to escape, to retreat, to "find" ourselves. The camp serves as a home-away-from-home where we might rethink a deliberate life. We also camp to find a new collective space where family and society converge. Many of us attended summer camps, and the legacies of these childhood havens form part of American culture. In Campsite, Charlie Hailey provides a highly original and artfully composed interpretation of the cultural significance and inherently paradoxical nature of camps and camping in contemporary American society. Offering a new understanding of the complex relationship between place, time, and architecture in an increasingly mobile culture, Hailey explores campsites as places that necessitate a unique combination of contrasting qualities, such as locality and foreignness, mobility and fixity, temporality and permanence, and public domesticity. Camping methods reflect the rigid flexibility of the process: leaving home, arriving at a site, clearing an area, making and then finally breaking camp. The phases of this sequence are both separate and indistinct. To understand this paradox, Hailey emphasizes the role of process. He constructs a philosophical framework to elucidate the "placefulness" -- or sense of place -- of such temporary constructions and provides alternative understandings of how we think of the home and of public versus private dwelling spaces.Historically, camps have been used as places for scouting out future towns, for clearing provisional spaces, and for making semipermanent homes-away-from-home. To understand how "cultures of camping" develop and accommodate this dynamic mix of permanence and flexibility, Hailey looks at three basic qualities of the camp: as a site for place-making, as a populist precursor for modern built environments, and as a "method." Hailey's creative and philosophical approach to camps and camping allows him to construct links between such diverse projects as the "philosophers' camps" of the mid-nineteenth century, the idiosyncratic camping clubs that arose with the automobile culture in the early 1920s, and more recent uses of campsites as temporary housing for those displaced by Hurricane Katrina.In Campsite, Hailey makes a singular and significant contribution to current studies of place and vernacular architecture while also reconfiguring methods of research in cultural studies, architectural theory, and geography.
Author: Arthur W. Magill Publisher: ISBN: Category : Camping Languages : en Pages : 24
Book Description
Attitudes and characteristics of campers reached by two Federal campsite reservation programs in experimental use during the summer of 1973 were surveyed. Most campers strongly favored reservations, but preferred that one company sell reservations to all government campgrounds. Questionnaire responses indicated need for a systematic procedure for referring campers to vacant campsites, along with a more effective program of information on the reservation systems. A majority of campers were satisfied to get their first choice of campground, but a few also wanted freedom to choose their campsite. The typical camper was a well-educated, high-income professional or manager, with considerable camping experience. His job allowed him to plan his camping trips in advance and he preferred to do so, though often he planned less than 5 weeks ahead.
Author: David N. Cole Publisher: ISBN: Category : Camp sites, facilities, etc Languages : en Pages : 64
Book Description
Summarizes information on techniques available for monitoring the condition of campsites, particularly those in wilderness. A variety of techniques are described and evaluated; sources of information are also listed. Problems with existing monitoring systems and places where refinement of technique is required are highlighted.
Author: David N. Cole Publisher: ISBN: Category : Camp sites, facilities, etc Languages : en Pages : 46
Book Description
Subalpine lakeshore campsites were studied in the Eagle Cap Wilderness, Oreg. Light-use campsites had experienced almost as much alteration as moderate- and heavy-use sites. Sites set back from lakeshores had changed as much as lakeshore sites. Selected indicators of ecological change were evaluated. Implications of this research to management of wilderness campsites are discussed.
Author: John Jones Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1664188665 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 144
Book Description
This Strange Story begins on a beautiful Old Family Farm located near the town of Deerfield within the beautiful Shenandoah Valley of Virginia (U.S.A.). A thirteen year boy, John Nixon a.k.a. Little John always spends his long summer school breaks on his dearly beloved grandparents Nixon’s family farm. His nineteen ninety- five summer of his usual expected fun and happiness turns into a Terrible Tragic Nightmare as he becomes a witness to a Horrible Brutal Crime Scene. This Brutal Crime Scene will engulf his wellbeing as the Evil of Satan that oversees this Brutal Crime will also take control of him and control his entire life. How the Evil of Satan does this and the final outcome will overwhelm you and, in some ways, also engulf your life.