Adventure Awaits
The Beginner’s Guide to the Great Outdoors
Format:Paperback
Publisher:HarperCollins Focus
Published:12th Feb '26
Should be back in stock very soon
CONQUER THE WILDERNESS
Calling adventurers of all ages! Ready to become an outdoor explorer? Adventure Awaits: A Guide to the Great Outdoors is like having a fun trail buddy who shows you how to hike, camp, and discover nature without feeling confused or nervous. With this book, you’ll learn awesome skills, build confidence, and jump right into your next big adventure.
Experienced survivalist, global adventurer, and stuntwoman Ky Furneaux (featured on Discovery’s Naked and Afraid) has spent her life exploring some of the most remote corners of the earth and has personally tested each bit of knowledge in this book.
The step-by-step tips make planning your first trip as easy as packing your favorite snacks. Learn how to pick the right gear, follow trails like a pro, and stay safe—even when the weather changes. Before you know it, you’ll go from “I want to go outside…” to “Let’s go explore right now!”
Inside you’ll also find:
- Super simple guides for hiking, camping, and outdoor fun
- Easy safety tips and helpful checklists so you don’t forget anything
- Guides on wilderness first aid, making shelter, finding food and water, making a shelter and more
- A fun 100-question “Would You Survive?” quiz to test your knowledge
Adventure Awaits makes a great gift for:
- Kids and families ready to go on outdoor adventures together
- First-time explorers who want a fun and friendly guide
- Young hikers and campers building their confidence
- Anyone excited to try something new outside
Take Rachel McAdams word for it, "She knows something about everything. Well, everything about everything." Ky’s knowledge leaves you in good hands, having both kids and adults alike ready to explore the outdoors confidently.
When the wild calls, this outdoor survival guide makes sure young adventurers are ready to answer. Australian stuntperson, survival expert, and TV personality Furneaux draws on her own bushcraft experience to offer an engaging guide to survival in the outdoors that's at once comprehensive and compulsively readable. Organized into manageable sections, the book covers core outdoor survival principles, including shelter, water, and fire. Each section presents a historical example to learn from, explains the topic's importance (with scientific context), provides detailed yet approachable instructions, shares helpful tips and tricks, and offers hands-on activities so readers can safely practice their skills. The final chapter is a lengthy quiz that allows budding outdoorspeople to further cement their knowledge. From showing how to tie knots to catching and preparing small animals to eat, demonstrative photos and detailed line drawings help readers effectively visualize techniques. The text debunks common bushcraft myths while offering fun facts (you actually can eat most slugs and snails--but avoid the brightly colored ones!); at the same time, Furneaux doesn't shy away from the serious nature of the topic and the dangers inherent to wilderness excursions. While she encourages adult supervision throughout the book, some of the practice activities--like starting a fire using a battery and steel wool--feel unsafe for the intended audience. The outdoorspeople who appear in photos appear white. Kids--and their grown-ups--will want to pack this book in their go bags. * – Kirkus Reviews *
ISBN: 9781400347162
Dimensions: 229mm x 153mm x 16mm
Weight: 426g
224 pages