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Naismith's rule helps with the planning of a walking or hiking expedition by calculating how long it will take to travel the intended route, including any extra time taken when walking uphill. This rule of thumb was devised by William W. Naismith, a Scottish mountaineer, in 1892. [1] [3] [4] A modern version can be formulated as follows:
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Stranger in the Forest: On Foot Across Borneo (1988) is a travel book by American writer Eric Hansen, about a seven-month, 4000 km long journey (of which 2300 km on foot) through the heartland of Borneo in 1982.
Illustration from "Letting in the Jungle" in Rudyard Kipling's The Second Jungle Book. "Letting In the Jungle" is a short story by Rudyard Kipling which continues Mowgli's adventures from "Mowgli's Brothers" and "Tiger!
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Mowgli mourns Akela: illustration from "Red Dog" by John Lockwood Kipling, father of the author. "Red Dog" is a Mowgli story by Rudyard Kipling. Written at Kipling's home in Brattleboro, Vermont between February and March 1895, it was first published as "Good Hunting: A Story of the Jungle" in The Pall Mall Gazette for July 29 and 30 1895 and McClure's Magazine for August 1895 before appearing ...
Illustration by John Lockwood Kipling (Rudyard's father) "Toomai of the Elephants" is a short story by Rudyard Kipling about a young elephant-handler. It was first published in the December 1893 issue of St. Nicholas magazine and reprinted in the collection of Kipling short stories, The Jungle Book (1894). [1]