Geocaching Books

Great books from Amazon.co.uk about your favourite pastime at low and discounted prices. Suitability ranges from the serious geocachers to those who simply want to enjoy a light hearted read. There are books to suit all.

We at Box64 have many of these books and are pleased to provide our reviews. For further opinions, please see the customer comments on Amazon.

Title	The Complete Idiot's Guide to Geocaching
By	The editors and staff from Geocaching.com and Jack W.Peters
Full Price	£8.65 ($16.95)
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Review	A comprehensive guide written with the input from the people who *know* about geocaching, the staff at Geocaching.com. This book is a whopping 316 pages and is jam-packed with advice and nuggets of wisdom. It covers all aspects of geocaching from the history of the game, geocaching basics, advance navigation techniques, tips and tricks, gameplay ethics and an insight into the supporting GPS technology both past and future!
Breakdown	Broad but well divided sections covering everything you need to know about or related to geocaching. Lots of clear illustrations and photographs. Sprinkled throughout with tips, guidance, cautionary advice, lingo explanations and navigation techniques. 316 pages crammed with information
Suitability	For beginners to advance geocachers. Suitable reading for the whole family.
Overall Summary	A well written and generously illustrated book that captures all the spirit of geocaching in every area. It has been clearly produced with the combined knowledge and experience of those who have been involved in geocaching since its inception and is comprehensive reading for anyone with an interest in the activity. Fantastic value for money!
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Title	Geocaching for Dummies
By	Joel McNamara
Full Price	£11.99
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Review	Written by the author of GPS for Dummies, this book provides plenty of quality in-depth information on everything you need to know about geocaching. It also gives lots of useful advice and techniques to enhance your geocaching experience. Each section if clearly divided and everything is explained in an easy to understand english.
Breakdown	Comprehensive and easy reading Loads of clear and fun illustrations, as well as photographs Useful tips included throughout. A hefty 221 pages of quality information
Suitability	Great for beginners to advance geocachers, and great for all members of the family.
Overall Summary	You can easily pick up this book and enjoy reading any page that you happen to open. It offers lots of tips and useful information, and is an excellent reference for methods and techniques. A great value book, one that you will reach for time and time again.
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Title	Geocaching: Hike and Seek with your GPS
By	Erik Sherman
Full Price	£12.50
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Review	This is a very detailed book giving everything you need to know about the technology, gear selection and techniques for geocaching. It covers technology in-depth and provides an appreciation and understanding of how things work, for example why there are varying GPS accuracy tolerances over the course of your trips. There are also advance methods; such as establishing position using triangulation and with altitude readings, finding caches using psychological, analytical and metaphysical(!) techniques, and even building improvised shelters using trekking poles!
Breakdown	Detailed knowledgable text Good photographs and illustrations 205 pages of good quality information
Suitability	For the technology enthusiastic or serious geocacher who want to develop their techniques to the next level
Overall Summary	Written from a technical point of view this book is more suited to the advanced geocacher. However, it is not drowned in technobabble and would offer the intermediate geocacher a great appreciation of how multi-million dollars worth of military technology work to support this recreational activity.
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Title	The Essential Guide to Geocaching
By	Mike Dyer
Full Price	£6.61 ($12.95)
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Review	This books focuses on the topics supporting the activity of geocaching and not the technology behind it which other books do. It provides good advice on outdoor ethics and safety, as well as guidelines for setting caches and methods of finding them using GPSRs, maps and compasses. A very short resource section at the back of the book provides step-by-step instructions for common geocaching activities.
Breakdown	A good range of photographs, but few illustrations. 147 pages of straight information
Suitability	For the beginner/intermediate geocacher who already owns another comprehensive geocaching book.
Overall Summary	A reasonable good book that covers most of the topics you would expect on geocaching. Written in no-nonsense english it may not be as entertaining to read as the other books reviewed. It is also not as well illustrated nor categorised and therefore may not be suitable for very young readers.
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Title	The Geocaching Handbook
By	Layne Cameron
Full Price	£5.58 ($10.95)
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Review	Provide a small introduction into geocaching and decribes many of the other variations of GPS gaming. Information is light and serves only to touch on the various topics associated with geocaching.
Breakdown	Has few photos and no illustrations Lots of online resource links 113 pages
Suitability	For the geocacher who would like to find additional online geocaching resources
Overall Summary	This is more a light reference book than a book that you can sit down and leisurely read. The sections are short and do not go into depth which is probably intentional to limit the book to its "handbook" size. You will be disappointed if this is the first geocaching book that you buy and we would urge you to consider others first.
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