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The handful of knots that cover almost everything — camping, boating, the garden or the shed. Clear, plain-English tying instructions for the essential eight (bowline, clove hitch, sheet bend, taut-line hitch and more), the rope terms you need to know, and a which-knot-when guide. The reverse adds the trucker's hitch for cinching loads and the tricks that make knots stick in your memory.

• ✓The essential eight knots
• ✓What each knot is for
• ✓How to tie them
• ✓Rope terms explained
• ✓Which knot for which job
• ✓Bonus: the trucker's hitch