The Desert Driver's Manual by Jim Stabler, 1998

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Format:  Paperback, spiral bound, 65 pp.  Dimensions:  (in cms.)  .5 x 23 x 16.5

Weight:  200 grams                                     Availability: Immediate

Every year, hundreds of thousands of people living in desert environments drive into the desert, for recreation or sport or exploration. Whether lasting a few hours or several days, these desert excursions can go badly wrong. The consequences of mismanagement, ignorance or misjudgement can range from mere irritating delays to the loss of vehicles or even the death of their occupants. Desert driving demands good sense and the ability to handle your vehicle. But it also requires considerable skills in other fields: navigation by day and night, weather, the capabilities of various types of vehicle, land surfaces in one condition or another, provisioning, survival, and more.

For many years, Jim Stabler, compiler and author of The —Desert Driver’s Manual and contributor to Desert Treks from Riyadh, has been penetrating the desert terrain of Arabia in vehicles of many kinds under every sort of condition and circumstance. In the Manual he has distilled his wisdom in compact, orderly form to produce the essential handbook which no driver leaving the tarmac in desert regions can risk being without.

How to...

                        plan ahead

                        check your vehicle

                        assemble your equipment

                        select your camping site

                        navigate day or night

                        know your vehicle

                        handle your vehicle

                        extricate your vehicle

                        survive...