"A delightful combination of history and memoir with a generous dollop of guidance thrown on top"
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My summer camping-and-reading itinerary to promote my camping book
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"This is a lovely book, genre-busting as all good books must be these days." Kathryn Hughes
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A positive review of The Art of Camping by Alexander Larman in The Spectator: “Yet his genuine engagement with both the idealistic and practical sides of camping (an appendix by his wife, Cath, provides a thorough packing list of necessities, a welcome and useful touch) means that this seductive account of the pleasures and...
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"A thoroughly researched, detailed and fascinating account of the origins of camping interspersed with the author’s anecdotes of his formative years as a camper."
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The July issue of Reader’s Digest contains a review and brief extract from The Art of Camping.
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My history and memoir of camping is available to pre-order on Amazon. Pre-orders make authors smile.
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10 insights from three years of lugging small children around Glastonbury.
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How the layout of the festival camp creates personal mythology
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My story on the camping boom and alternative culture.
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