Outdoor Skills category: 1281 books
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American Writers on Fly Fishing
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2012
This marvelous collection features stories from some of America’s finest and most respected writers about one of the world’s most solitary and satisfying sports: fly fishing. For the first time, the stories of thirty-one acclaimed writers including Kim Barnes, Walter Bennett, Russell Chatham,...
by David Barrington Barnes
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2014
A lifelong countryman and a keen shot, David Barrington Barnes recounts his memories of a lifetime of shooting exploits in this collection of all-new stories. From his earliest experiences ratting with a garden gun to enjoying luxurious hospitality on the finest driven shooting days, his passion for...
by Rodney Peele
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2012
The steps required to become proficient (and safe) with a shotgun in your hands. Before you do anything else, remember "Rule 1": safety! Guns (especially shotguns) are very powerful and potentially deadly weapons; be sure you know how to handle a firearm safely. For beginners, you should have an...
The Greatest Hunting Stories Ever Told
Classic Tales of Hunting Grizzly, Moose, Cape Buffalo, and Much More
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
Experience all the thrills and dangers of hunting big game as told by writers who experienced them first-hand.
Elephant. Bear. Moose. Rhinoceros. Buffalo. Lion. Since prehistoric times man has hunted. An elemental part of life, seeking out and overpowering large, strong, and fast animals has...
The Impossible Climb
Alex Honnold, El Capitan, and the Climbing Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
**INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER
NEW YORK TIMES MONTHLY BESTSELLER
One of the 10 Best Books of March, Paste Magazine
A deeply reported insider perspective of Alex Honnold’s historic achievement and the culture and history of climbing.
“One of the most compelling accounts of a climb...
by William Wasserman
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015
William Wasserman, a retired Pennsylvania game warden who has trapped everything from weasels to black bears, writes about his favorite sets and methods in a series of twenty-five chapters encompassing a lifetime on the trapline. This is not your typical how-to-trap book; there are plenty of those...
by William Wasserman
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015
William Wasserman, a retired Pennsylvania game warden and a fur trapper for over fifty years, explains how to catch muskrats and mink using foothold traps, body-gripping traps, and cage traps. He also goes into detail about proper trap sizes, equipment needed, dying and waxing traps, how to use lures...
by Roger Ascham
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Toxophilus -The School Of Shooting (History of Archery Series) Roger Ascham This work comprises of two books combined together: The First Book of the School of Shooting and The Second Book of the School of Shooting. They are written in the form of a dialogue between Toxophilus 'A lover of the bow'...
Fisherman's Bible
The World's Most Comprehensive Angling Reference
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
In the tradition of the bestselling Shooter’s Bible, Skyhorse Publishing presents the Fisherman’s Bible, the most complete reference guide for new fishing equipment and their specifications. Now, anglers will only need one book to discover all the new gear on the market as well as lookup specs...
My Health is Better in November
Thirty-Five Stories of Hunting and Fishing in the South
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2016
Packed with rare humor and developed with such true originality, these hunting and fishing stories will delight and amuse even those who have never shot a gun or cast a fly.
Classic Hunting Tales
Timeless Stories about the Great Outdoors
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
No matter when and where it’s done, the love-and dangers-of hunting will always remain.
For more than forty million Americans who hunt, here is the ideal companion. Vincent T. Sparano, a lifelong devotee of hunting stories-and himself a hunter-presents these timeless tales, each a thrilling...
by Keith Fergus
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
Guidebook to walking the Ayrshire Coastal Path and Arran Coastal Way on the western coast of Scotland. The Ayrshire Coast Path is a 94-mile route from Glenapp in the south to Skelmorlie in the north. Also described is the Arran Coastal Way, which circumnavigates its way round that island for 60 miles...
The UK's County Tops
Reaching the top of 91 historic counties
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014
This inspiring guide describes 82 walking routes to the highest points (?tops') of the UK's 91 historic counties in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, from Inverness-shire's Ben Nevis (1344m) to Huntingdonshire's Boring Field (80m), visiting 10 national parks and numerous Areas of Outstanding...
The Log Cabin Book
A Complete Builder's Guide to Small Homes and Shelters
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
This vintage guide from over a century ago offers timeless, practical advice on building log cabins. Plans and directions for simple structures are easy enough for amateurs to follow; time and inclination are the only necessary elements. Each of the designs has been tested and allows numberless alterations...