Outdoor Skills category: 1281 books
by Mike Toth
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2000
You're no idiot, of course. You know that the joy of fishing comes with skill, patience, and the right equipment. You can get yourself to the water and relax, but when it comes to baiting your hook and casting your cares away, you feel like a minnow swimming with the sharks!
Don't throw back...
by The Blokehead
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
In a contest of survival between the strongest of men and the smartest intellectual, it is the one who is most adaptable to change who will win. Strength and IQ may affect the overall results of bushcraft practice, but they are not the prime requirements for its success. If man is willing to venture...
by The Blokehead
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
This book will help you to prepare well for disaster. Preparedness needs adequate knowledge and understanding, as well as careful planning and proper execution in order to be successful. Nobody wants to get all the hard work done only to find out that you got the wrong supplies or it wasn’t enough...
by The Blokehead
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2014
Disaster strikes often without any notice. A simple storm may turn out to be very devastating in a few hours. An earthquake can strike at any time without any forewarning. Anything can happen without leaving much time for preparation. This is why it is important to be ready way ahead, even without...
Holy Old Whistlin'
Yarns About Algonquin Park Loggers
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Tall trees and tall tales – that’s life in the bush. And Brent Connelly wouldn’t have it any other way. A forester for nearly forty years, Brent was never happier than when in the company of loggers and truck drivers, timber cruisers and cookees – especially when the “office” was...
Survive Like a Spy
Real CIA Operatives Reveal How They Stay Safe in a Dangerous World and How You Can Too
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
Follow-up to the New York Times bestseller Spy Secrets That Can Save Your Life--revealing high-stakes techniques and survival secrets from real intelligence officers in life-or-death situations around the world
Everyone loves a good spy story, but most of the ones we hear are fictional. That's...
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Canoeing and Kayaking
Expert Advice on Buying a Canoe or a Kayak
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2004
Don't get caught without a paddle...
Filled with nearly 100 photos and illustrations, this must-have guide-written by the foremost paddlesports experts-gives the aspiring canoe or kayak adventurer everything he or she needs to know before taking the plunge. Inside, discover how to choose between...
by Al Ristori
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
Fishing from beach or rocky coastline presents challenges not faced by anglers who head out to sea. Written to open new frontiers to the old hand and provide advice to novice surf fishermen, The Complete Book of Surf Fishing will be a boon to all coastline anglers. Author and licensed charter captain...
The Complete Book of Striped Bass Fishing
A Thorough Guide to the Baits, Lures, Flies, Tackle, and Techniques for America?s Favorite Saltwater Game Fish
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
Striped bass - in fresh and salt water - are one of the world's greatest gamefish, and The Complete Book of Striped Bass Fishing is the fullest, most authoritative, most helpful book ever written on the species. Nick Karas, one of the world's great experts on the striped bass, offers proven techniques...
Selective Trout
The Last Word on Stream Entomology and Aquatic Insect Imitation
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
When it was originally published in 1971, Selective Trout was universally acclaimed as the most revolutionary approach to aquatic insect imitation in the twentieth century. Using common sense, science, and imagination, authors Doug Swisher and Carl Richards developed a wide array of new patterns that...
by Chris Lynch
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Written by an expert outfitter with boots in its waters, this piece includes a detailed map with access points along the river, information about gear, seasonal hatches, local lodges, fly shops, restaurants, watering holes, and closest medical care, along with the sort of intimate, insider information only someone working on the river can share.
Cycle Touring in France
Eight selected cycle tours
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2012
Cycle Touring in France concentrates on eight selected one- or two-week bicycle tours which endeavour to offer cyclists of all levels a taste of France's diverse landscapes and superb scenery. From rugged mountain ranges to vast, variegated patchworks of farmland, from beautiful, tranquil forests...
by Ed Van Put
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Ed Van Put begins this important book with the history of native brook trout and offers little-known details about their sizes, range, and demise from over-fishing, the growth of streamside industries, and the introduction of competitive species. Sweeping in its scope, Trout Fishing in the Catskills...
The Orvis Guide to Fly Fishing for Carp
Tips and Tricks for the Determined Angler
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
Carp are tantalizingly close, no matter where you are. They will challenge you technically, test your patience, and make you question your fly fishing bona fides more than any other freshwater fish. And they get really big; they’ll put you into your backing fast. As Trout Unlimited’s Chris Hunt...