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June 20, 2005
Tom Sheppard's Vehicle-dependent Expedition Guide
Tom Sheppard's book, the Vehicle-dependent Expedition Guide, is well-known because it is well-written and researched with an aim for "dead accurate detail."
Even though it is in a 2nd edition it is becoming hard to find. You can check this Amazon page for the softcover edition to see if any copies become available there.
From earthroamer.com (which may also be worth a look around):
This book started as a commission from Land Rover to 'do a little booklet on expeditions'. We had the idea of basing it around the Royal Geographical Society notes Tom Sheppard had done earlier - these in turn drawing on his extensive expedition experience and in particular the first west-east crossing of the Sahara for which he gained the Royal Geographical Society's prestigious Ness Award.
For those that don't know, the Ness Award is "for travellers, particularly those who have successfully popularised Geography and the wider understanding of our world and its environments." A list of other Ness Award winners is available, as well as a list of other Royal Geographic Society awards.
[Via Kevin Kelly's Cool Tools.]
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Hey Duck, I do appreciate your criticism of the website. I've started changing the colors (they were mostly the defaults from Movabletype, perhaps you should give them a shout too) and things should be looking better tonight.
I actually had read this post on This is Broken recently (http://broken.typepad.com/b/2005/05/things_that_nee.html) but hadn't got around to changing our site. Now that we have complainers though... ;)