Designed by experts for professionals, but a valuable resource for everyone. The National Association for Search and Rescue has teamed up with the folks at Waterford Press to bring to you the Search and Rescue Survival Guide Series. These pocket size guides, Basic Navigation for Search and Rescue and Survival and Essential Knots for Search and Rescue and Survival, are waterproof and loaded with information that every TrailblazerGirl should know (or at least have access to). In concise, straightforward language and clear illustrations, you’ll find tips on reading grid coordinates, measuring distance traveled by keeping a tally of your pace, magnetizing a needle to fashion a compass, the difference between a knot (i.e., a tie that intertwines within itself) and a hitch (i.e., a tie that attaches a rope to another object in a means that if the object is removed, the hitch fall apart), and how to tie the most common knots and hitches and in what situation these will be useful. Valuable info to have when you are on your next camping or backcountry adventure. Trailblazer Girl.com

You can take your Peterson, Sibley and Kaufman. Keep Dunne on the shelf. National Geographic, too. If the book weighs more than the binocular, beginners just won't bite. So for our friends just starting to bird – and we mean those birding within 50 feet of their back window – we're giving them a started guide they can handle. We love the “don't overwhelm me” feel of these new pocket books from Waterford Press. These folding guides provide folds of laminated full-color. - Birding Business Magazine

Has this ever happened to you? Your out in a field or in the forest or on a stream and a bird flashes by. You get a good look at it, note its most prominent features, but you’re not sure what it is. You could look it up in a bird book, but who carries a bird book a field when the whole idea is to travel as light as possible? Now Waterford Press has come up with something that solves the problem: a pocket sized bird guide that is four inches wide, 8 ¼” inches long and flat as yesterdays beer. - Chicago Press & Sun-Bulletin

"Designed by experts for professionals, but a valuable resource for everyone. The National Association for Search and Rescue has teamed up with the folks at Waterford Press to bring to you the Search and Rescue Survival Guide Series. These pocket size guides, Basic Navigation for Search and Rescue and Survival and Essential Knots for Search and Rescue and Survival, are waterproof and loaded with information that every TrailblazerGirl should know (or at least have access to). In concise, straightforward language and clear illustrations, you’ll find tips on reading grid coordinates, measuring distance traveled by keeping a tally of your pace, magnetizing a needle to fashion a compass, the difference between a knot (i.e., a tie that intertwines within itself) and a hitch (i.e., a tie that attaches a rope to another object in a means that if the object is removed, the hitch fall apart), and how to tie the most common knots and hitches and in what situation these will be useful. Valuable info to have when you are on your next camping or backcountry adventure."

– Trailblazer Girl.com