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Applied fields
Pages associated with professions (Journalism,
Education, etc.)
and university
research institutions, government
agencies and NGO's involved with wildlife conservation, environmental issues, economic development, human rights, public health,
etc. There is much overlap among the government, human rights and development pages.
I recently ran across a few technical books on planning off-road vehicle
travel (this is the best location I came up with to include these on the
site):
- Land-Rover Ltd. Working in the wild [Land Rover's manual for Africa].
Land Rover, 1989. 1 v. (various pagings). ISBN: 0951449303 (spiral).
While covering many of the usual off-road topics such as winching, recovery,
and driving techniques, it also includes how to set up a workshop, how
altitude affects humans and vehicles, how much water humans need in the
desert, and the international air distress code! Basic expedition repairs
include how to set up a field repair facility.
- Sheppard, Tom. Vehicle-dependent expedition guide. 2nd ed. Hertfordshire,
England: Desert Winds, 2003. 1 v. (various pagings) : ill., maps ; 26 cm.
ISBN: 0953232417.
The second edition is completely updated from the original of 1998 but lacks
color photos. Sheppard, who
Michael Palin describes meeting haphazardly on his own cross-Saharan
expedition, was an RAF test pilot and crossed the Sahara from coast to
coast in off-road vehicles. He includes topics such as clothing, selecting
and outfitting the right vehicle, camping gear for different weather
conditions, off road driving and recovery techniques, GPS navigation, map
reading, communications, water requirements, etc. North American users may
have to translate British usages and units, but useful for planning,
budgeting, etc.
- A shorter article by Sheppard "Vehicle-dependent expeditions" is available in Adobe Acrobat format
available via the Royal Geographic Society:
http://www.rgs.org/pdf/HBETve.pdf
"The RGS-IBG's internationally acclaimed Expedition Advisory Centre provides training and advice to anyone embarking on an expedition. It is the leading such centre in the world. Each year it assists more than 500 teams, the majority of which are university-based. The EAC also runs courses and publishes a range of training manuals on many aspects of fieldwork and logistics."
- Another shorter article by Sheppard, "Desert expeditions" is
also available in Adobe Acrobat format
available from the Royal Geographic Society:
[3d ed. 1988; ISBN 0-907649-15-7]
http://www.rgs.org/PDF/Desert.pdf
Some of these titles may be available from: http://www.britishpacific.com/LandRoverAccessories/LandRoverBooks.html
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