Essential Knots - Secure Your Gear When Camping, Hiking, Fishing, and Playing Outdoors

This pocket-sized booklet contains 21 versatile knots for common household and outdoors needs, with step-by-step illustrations and easy-to-follow instructions.

List of contents

List of Knots

1. Half Hitch



2. Quick-Release Knot



3. Overhand Knot



4. Clove Hitch



5. Bowline Knot



6. Square Knot



7. Sheet Bend



8. Carrick Bend



9. Improved Clinch Knot



10. Blood Knot



11. Fisherman's Knot



12. Grapevine Knot



13. Figure-Eight Stopper Knot



14. Figure-Eight Follow Through



15. Water Knot



16. Timber Hitch



17. Prusik Knot



18. Trucker's Hitch



19. Taut-Line Hitch



20. Barrel Hitch



21. Chain Sinnet

About the author

Karen Berger has used a variety of knots while hiking, camping, kayaking, and riding horses on six continents. She is the author of 17 other books, including America's Great Hiking Trails, a Lowell Thomas award winner and a New York Times travel best-seller. She lives in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts.

Summary

This pocket-sized booklet contains 21 versatile knots for common household and outdoors needs, with step-by-step illustrations and easy-to-follow instructions.

Product details

• Authors: Karen Berger
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Spiral bound
• Release: 26.04.2019, delayed
• EAN: 9781591938996
• ISBN: 978-1-59193-899-6
• No. of pages: 28
• Dimensions: 99 mm x 191 mm x 8 mm
• Weight: 113 g
• Illustrations: Color illustrations throughout
• Series: Adventure Skills Guides
• Subjects: Guides > Hobby, home > Creative design; Survival (Überlebenstraining), SPORTS & RECREATION / Outdoor Skills, Haus: Wartung und Instandhaltung, REFERENCE / Handbooks & Manuals, Crafts / Hobbies, HOUSE & HOME / Reference, CRAFTS & HOBBIES / Knots, Macrame & Rope Work