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Brief essays inspired by family camping

Four campsites in fiction

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January 9, 2012
Handdrawn map of the perfect group camp map

Camps from novels
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Camping Etiquette – the ten basics

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January 9, 2012
Two children doing cheers with their drinks at Glastonbury Festival

Tiny morals for campers
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On sandals and socks

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January 9, 2012
Edward Carpenter modelling his sandals with socks

The shoe is a leather prison for the toes. An appreciation of simple lifer and sandal-wearer Edward Carpenter.
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Camping with The Chap

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June 9, 2011
Cover of the new issue of The Chap featuring a gentleman in pith helmet and binoculars

Vintage camping and invaluable advice on how a gentleman should camp.
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The Bookseller recommends

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April 8, 2011
TheArtofCamping_CutdownDemy

My camping book The Art of Camping is one to watch in July
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Vintage camping by the river

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March 5, 2011
Vintage camping by the river

Is this breakfast at camp, circa 1873?
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The Art of Camping

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November 24, 2010
The Art of Camping by Matthew De Abaitua

The publication date for my camping book The Art of Camping: The History and Practice of Sleeping Under the Stars is 7 July 2011
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The Sex, Drugs and Rock ‘N’ Roll Were Incidental

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July 30, 2010
Five Dials issue 13 the Festival Issue

A review of the Woodstock music festival as a failed camping holiday.
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The Art of Camping: The History and Practice of Sleeping Under the Stars

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July 30, 2010
Cath and Math camping The Art of Camping

I am pleased to announce that my book The Art of Camping: The History and Practice of Sleeping Under the Stars will be published next year July 2011 by Hamish Hamilton, as reported in the Bookseller.
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Laughing my head off around the campfire

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June 29, 2010
campfire

It had been years since I laughed so hard. There were four of us around a campfire set on a hill overlooking Glastonbury festival. It was Saturday night and the vale was a constellation echoing with music, a party that our small children precluded us from attending.
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