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Article: Outdoor Leadership: theory and practice.(Book review)
- Article from:
- Australian Journal of Outdoor Education
- Article date:
- January 1, 2007
- Author:
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I have a number of books on my shelves about outdoor leadership. They range from the now dated classic 'Freedom of the Hills' (1974), which fired my young imagination in its depictions of the rigorous demands and responsibilities of venturing into the frozen mountains as a leader of other adventurous souls, to 'Bushwalking and Mountaincraft Leadership' (1994), which remains a treasure trove of practical and local advice. Some books age gracefully. There is also the weighty and theoretical 'Effective Leadership in Adventure Programming' (Priest and Gass, 1997) and the experientially based and narratively driven 'Outdoor Leadership: Technique, Common Sense and ...