Vehicle-dependent Expedition Guide, Edition 5+ (January 2023)
Vehicle-dependent Expedition Guide, Edition 5+ (January 2023)
We are out of stock on the Vehicle-dependent Expedition Guide. Please order directly from Tom at Desert Winds Publishing (query first for availability and shipping). Also ask about his wonderful books Quiet, for a Tuesday, and The Nobility of Wilderness.
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We are proud to be the exclusive U.S. distributor of the fifth edition of Tom Sheppard’s overlanding bible, the Vehicle-dependent Expedition Guide, co-authored by Jonathan Hanson. In addition to a careful updating and expanding of several sections, this edition is larger in format, with larger font—and, for the first time, all-digital printing, rendering photos with new crispness. Despite this, the price has been raised by just $5. This is a limited print run; we have just 90 copies.
As always, VDEG (“veedeg”), as its aficionados refer to it, is the undisputed bible of expedition and overland travel. Within its 620-plus pages is, quite simply, everything you need to know about the subject, from choosing a vehicle to equipping it, from driving to recovery, from loading and lashing to shipping overseas. Provisioning, communications, navigation, team selection, and more. A copy of VDEG is four pounds of expertise in your hand, whether you’re thinking of three-day trips near home, or are charged with managing a major trans-continental exploration into remote territory.
See full description below.
AUTHORS: Tom Sheppard (UK) and Jonathan Hanson (US)
ISBN 978-0-9575385-2-8
9.5" X 7.5" X1.5" / 620 PAGES
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Description from Tom Sheppard, Desert Winds Publishing:
An expedition can be a half day exploring a hill track near home, two weeks off-road in Turkey or the Pyrenees, a major journey in Africa, or a development, aid or research project in a remote area. The demands are often surprisingly similar.
Work or pure adventure, every expedition needs planning, selection, training and reliability as its ethos. To forty years’ expeditioning experience has been added a cumulative five years’ concentrated research to produce and later revise this book – shipping, equipment, clothing, fuels, oil, communications, vehicles, driver training and navigation are dealt with, distilled and summarised.
The 2013 third edition of VDEG was a major update and sold out in 11 months. The fourth edition, further updated and massively expanded, was enhanced by contributions from Jonathan Hanson - widely experienced traveller and writer, establishing editor of Overland Journal, host of the respected Overland Tech & Travel website and co-founder of the Overland Expo event in the U.S. Added to the book also is a detailed study of the genesis of a sensible, exemplar world-travel expedition vehicle – an invaluable contribution, beamed in from Africa (and South America) from tech guru (and gureuse!) Marcus and Julie Tuck. The latest edition 5 is now larger in format for easier reading, and boasts all-digital printing quality.
But the book is still only a guide; a 2021 snapshot of the ever-changing, ascending technology and spiral of ideas that ignite overland travel. The final arbiter for your expedition plans will be you.
