I've selected five of the best guide books on Geocaching in print. Invented in May 2000, Geocaching already attracts hundreds of thousands of people who participate and enjoy this treasure hunting game using handheld GPS (Global Positioning System) receivers. The sport is now played world-wide. Books on the sport of Geocaching are relatively new and may not yet be found at you local book store. I provide you some help in finding a good handbook at a reasonable price.
1. Complete Idiot's Guide to Geocaching
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Geocaching was written by GPS expert Jack Peters and may be the most recommended book for beginning geocachers. Peters is also an editor for Geocaching.com, a website that has cultivated THE perfect geocache niche and become the best and most used geocaching site on the Web. From Geocaching.com: "The Complete Idiot’s Guide® to Geocaching is a comprehensive, yet entertaining and easy-to-understand book for getting started and having fun with geocaching."
2. Geocaching: Hike and Seek with Your GPS (English)
Geocaching: Hike and Seek with Your GPS by experienced geocacher Erik Sherman is a big 224 page book that offers both information on the technology and some very interesting "tips" and "tricks" when hunting and hiding the cache. Hike and Seek overviews the sport and the technology, describes various cache types and gives great advice when "On the Hunt" and "In Hiding" the geocache. Although the book is about geocaching Sherman weaves his outdoor experiences into fun stories.3. Geocaching for Dummies
The "Dummies" series of books are always loaded with good information on every subject they take on. Geocaching is no exception. Joel McNamara's 231 page guide on Geocaching follows the "Dummies" format and gets you all the necessary technical GPS information in easily digestible chapters. He uses a lighthearted but not lightweight approach to even the most complex parts of Geocaching and reinforces it with lists and cheat sheets.4. Essential Guide to Geocaching (English)
The Essential Guide To Geocaching: Tracking Treasure With Your GPS is a book written by professional cartographer and geographer Mike Dyer. Dyer's book provides a great start for the geocache beginner with a broad overview of the sport, but the book also has much material included to educate even the expert geocacher. The book features easy step-by-step checklists, a glossary of terms, and a resource listing of GPS manufacturers and geocache organizations.5. The Geocaching Handbook (English)
Written by Layne Cameron, The Geocaching™ Handbook is a 128 page paperback written to serve as a complete introduction to Geocaching. The forward is actually written by Dave Ulmer, the inventor of the sport of Geocaching. As you would expect, Geocaching Handbook includes an introduction to GPS technology and receivers. Other chapters cover creating and maintaining caches, geo games, ethics and safety in the backwoods, available organizations, clubs and websites, and Cachinary 1.0.