Updated to reflect all the latest gear and techniques, this guide is the perfect step-by-step handbook for beginners, with sage advice on every aspect of flat-water and sea kayaking, from selecting a boat to kayak camping.
His chatty tone annoyed me and when I finished I couldn't really think of anything I actually learned from it aside from the definition of 'gunk-holing' and what a feathered paddle looks like.
This book was very helpful. I read it, bought a kayak, five minutes after it was delivered, I was paddling around a lake and grinning like a happy idiot. Nice book for beginners.