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Camping Genre
Books in the Camping genre:
Oxus in Summer (1939)
A collection of stories about the adventures of the six friends in the Oxus country.
Author(s):
Katharine Hull
Pamela Whitlock
Illustrator(s):
Pamela Whitlock
Secret Water (1939)
The Swallows are set down on an island in a tidal estuary to explore and map it.
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Author(s):
Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Ransome
Oxus in Summer (1940)
A collection of stories about the adventures of the six friends in the Oxus country.
Author(s):
Katharine Hull
Pamela Whitlock
Illustrator(s):
Charles E. Pont
Secret Water (1940)
The Swallows are set down on an island in a tidal estuary to explore and map it.
Author(s):
Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s):
Anonymous
Arthur Ransome
Trail and Campfire Stories (1940)
Author(s):
Ernest Thompson Seton
Julia M. Thompson Seton
Illustrator(s):
Ernest Thompson Seton
Trail of an Artist-Naturalist (1940)
Autobiography of the Canadian artist-naturalist and founder of the Boy Scouts of America.
Author(s):
Ernest Thompson Seton
Illustrator(s):
Ernest Thompson Seton
Captain Kidd’s Cow (1941)
Author(s):
Phil Stong
Kurt Wiese
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Handbook of American Mountaineering (1942)
A guide to mountain climbing technique.
Author(s):
Kenneth Atwood Henderson
Illustrator(s):
Virginia Lee Burton
Tree in the Trail (1942)
The story of a cottonwood tree leads to the history of the Santa Fe Trail.
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Author(s):
Holling C. Holling
Illustrator(s):
Holling C. Holling
The Oregon Trail (1943)
Author(s):
Francis Parkman
Illustrator(s):
Maynard Dixon
The Picts and the Martyrs (1943)
Author(s):
Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Ransome
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The Picts and the Martyrs: or Not Welcome at All (1943)
Dick and Dorothea have come to the lake to stay with Nancy and Peggy, break in their new boat, Scarab and help Timothy with the copper assays when all is thrown into confusion by the arrival of the Great Aunt.
Author(s):
Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Ransome
Brendon Chase (1945)
Three English boys, tired of ‘petticoat government,’ take to the woods.
Author(s):
BB
Illustrator(s):
Denys Watkins-Pitchford
Freddy Goes Camping (1948)
Mr. Camphor is having aunt problems and calls on Freddy for help.
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Author(s):
Walter R. Brooks
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Invisible Island (1948)
The four Guthrie children are cast away on an invisible island.
Author(s):
Dean Marshall
Illustrator(s):
Christine Price
The Best of Ernest Thompson Seton (1949)
Selections from Seton’s animal biographies.
Author(s):
Ernest Thompson Seton
Illustrator(s):
Ernest Thompson Seton
Freddy Goes to the North Pole (1951)
Author(s):
Walter R. Brooks
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Fun Outdoors (1951)
An elementary school reader about camping.
Author(s):
Mary Louise Friebele
Bernice Osler Frissell
Frances C. Smith
Illustrator(s):
Kate Seredy
Rough Water (1951)
Continues the adventures of Pat, Toby and Nick on Mr. Beckett’s “mile of salmon stream and five hundred acres of woods.”
Author(s):
Roland Pertwee
Illustrator(s):
Margery Jean Gill
Wish on the Moon (1951)
A Halloween mystery for the Guthries and their friends.
Author(s):
Dean Marshall
Illustrator(s):
Dorothy Bayley Morse