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Camping is a form of outdoor recreation or outdoor education involving overnight stays with a basic temporary shelter such as a tent. Camping can also include a recreational vehicle, sheltered cabins, a permanent tent, a shelter such as a bivy or tarp, or no shelter at all. Typically, participants leave developed areas to spend time outdoors ...
The essay is structured with a brief introduction, followed by a list of 58 "notes" on what camp is, or might be. Christopher Isherwood is mentioned in Sontag's essay: "Apart from a lazy two-page sketch in Christopher Isherwood's novel The World in the Evening (1954), [camp] has hardly broken into print."
Thomas Hiram Holding Outside his tent. Thomas Hiram Holding (c. 1844 – 1930 [1]) was a British tailor and often considered the founder of modern camping.He wrote the first edition of The Camper's Handbook in 1908 and founded the Association of Cycle Campers, now the Camping and Caravanning Club.
Patrick Francis McManus (August 25, 1933 – April 11, 2018 [1]) was an American educator and humor writer, who primarily wrote about the outdoors.A humor columnist and editor for Outdoor Life from 1983 to 2009, and Field & Stream from 1977 to 1982, as well as other magazines, [2] [3] his columns and stories have been collected in several books, beginning with A Fine and Pleasant Misery (1978 ...
The American frontier, also known as the Old West, and popularly known as the Wild West, encompasses the geography, history, folklore, and culture associated with the forward wave of American expansion in mainland North America that began with European colonial settlements in the early 17th century and ended with the admission of the last few ...
The most beautiful places to camp across America offer a glimpse of what the country used to look like before industrialization erased America's natural habitats en masse. Camping at any one of ...
While still a small minority, campers are more likely to own an electric vehicle than those who don’t go camping, according to a survey by Kampgrounds of America, the nation’s largest ...
John Burroughs (April 3, 1837 – March 29, 1921) was an American naturalist and nature essayist, active in the conservation movement in the United States. [1] The first of his essay collections was Wake-Robin in 1871.