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The vast majority of tent campers - or those thinking about trying it for the first time - would prefer the convenience, cost and comfort of a weekend family camping, often at a prepared tent site at a campground, with the support of a nearby car or van. This type of camping blends effortlessly into the lifestyle of a busy family wanting to get away from it all without competely cutting the cord. "The Essential Family Camper", as with other titles in the Essential series, presents an engaging, thorough and highly visible introduction to the joys of sleeping and eating under the stars. Longtime campers Zora and David Aiken have gleaned hundreds of tips from a wide array of campers around the United States, and combined them with lessons they've learned during their own transformation from novice to experienced campers. "The Essential Family Camper" presents the best information available on planning an excursion, choosing gear, packing, setting up camp, cooking, sanitation, safety and making the most of one's surroundings.All information is field-tested and designed to make those weekend forays easier, more comfortable and more fun for the entire family, with games and activities to keep the kids happy and involved and advice on bringing along the family pet. "The Essential Family Camper" also includes advice on more remote trips that expand a family's camping horizons. "The Essential Family Camper" is a revised and updated edition of "Simple Tent Camping", first published in 1996, with an added new feature: a "30-minute pack-and-go planner" to guide harried weekenders through getting the family quickly and easily on the road, fully equipped, on a Friday evening.

This volume is a beginner's guide to cross-country skiing, snowshoeing, snowboarding, skating, and winter backcountry adventuring for women.

In this illuminating study, Steven E. Nash chronicles the history of Reconstruction as it unfolded in the mountains of western North Carolina. Nash presents a complex story of the region's grappling with the war's aftermath, examining the persistent wartime loyalties that informed bitter power struggles between factions of white mountaineers determined to rule. For a brief period, an influx of federal governmental power enabled white anti-Confederates to ally with former slaves in order to lift the Republican Party to power locally and in the state as a whole. Republican success led to a violent response from a transformed class of elites, however, who claimed legitimacy from the antebellum period while pushing for greater integration into the market-oriented New South.Focusing on a region that is still underrepresented in the Reconstruction historiography, Nash illuminates the diversity and complexity of Appalachian political and economic machinations, while bringing to light the broad and complicated issues the era posed to the South and the nation as a whole.