Outdoor Skills category: 1281 books
by Rob Walters
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Before you push off the bank, there are some essential things to know about white water rafting that will help keep you safe and equip you to best assist your team on the trip. Being informed about white water rafting will enable your whole group to better work together and start you off on a more...
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Why Men Like Things that Go
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2009
What is it about an engine roaring into life that makes grown men go weak at the knees?
This is a book about machines and the men who love them. Some of these men are quite odd. Having always been a mechanaphobe himself, living in the slow lane, Dan Kieran is on a mission to discover the allure...
Going Home
If you chase fish long enough, sometimes they lead you home
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2015
It doesn't matter if you're in the woods every other weekend or every other day. Outdoorsman or angler are broad terms and applies to a large population. However, the title does not encapsulate someone who frequently engages in either. Ultimately, anglers, hunters, hikers, etc., are ordinary people whose...
Shotgunning
The Art and the Science
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2008
In this sought-after masterpiece, Bob Brister, one of the most respected firearms authorities” in the world (The New York Times), addresses every problem the shotgunner is likely to face, and offers solutions, based on years of tests and study of data, to ensure that shooters can make every shot...
Gun Trader's Guide to Rifles
A Comprehensive, Fully Illustrated Reference for Modern Rifles with Current Market Values
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Gun Trader's Guide is the bestselling collectible firearms reference, having sold over two million copies in thirty-five editions. The guide includes prices for all types of firearms, but what if you are only interested in buying, selling, and collecting rifles? Then Gun Trader's Guide to Rifles is...
by Dr. Fix-it
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
In 2017, 80% of the People Trying to Thru-Hike the Appalachian Trail
FAILED!
This book will tell you how to:
Triple your odds of success simply by selecting the best starting location! (It’s not Springer Mountain)
Triple your odds of success by completing a particular training...
by Penguin Books Ltd
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
THE ULTIMATE SURVIVAL GUIDE for anyone who thinks they'd survive the world's most hostile environments - or at least imagine they could do.
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First issued to airmen in the 1950s, the Air Ministry's Sea Survival guide includes original and authentic emergency...
Soul Fuel
A Daily Devotional
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2019
Bestselling author Bear Grylls is best known for his seven seasons on National Geographic's Man vs. Wild, his current NBC TV series, Running Wild with Bear Grylls, and his adventures climbing ice cliffs, running through forest fires, and parachuting from balloons. Nature has taught Bear some important...
The NRA Step-by-Step Guide to Gun Safety
How to Care For, Use, and Store Your Firearms
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Having shaped our nation since its birth, guns are an integral part of American life. As more and more Americans choose to own firearms, it becomes increasingly important to educate them on proper shooting and handling techniques.
Drawing on the National Rifle Association’s more than two...
by Cuthbert Christy
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
"Big Game and Pygmies" is the fascinating account of Cuthbert Christy's experiences in the Central African forests in search of a tribe called the Okapi. Cuthbert Christy (1863 - 1932) was a British zoologist and doctor who embarked on many explorations of Central Africa in the early 20th century....
Shooter's Bible Guide to Handloading
A Comprehensive Reference for Responsible and Reliable Reloading
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
A thorough resource on handloading at home, Shooter’s Bible Guide to Handloading provides detailed information about the history of handloading and key figures’ innovations, a simple explanation of hand reloading, selecting the basic tools needed, and choosing your cases, dies, primers, and powders...
Fire Making
The Forgotten Art of Conjuring Flame with Spark, Tinder, and Skill
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
A Richly Illustrated Guide to Making Fire Without a Lighter
If you ask outdoorsman Daniel Hume for the fastest, most practical way to start a fire, he’ll tell you: Use a match. But he probably won’t stop there. For Hume, conjuring flame is an art form, and seeking out the old ways is a...
Call of the Wild
My Escape to Alaska
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015
Guy Grieve's life was going nowhere - trapped in a job he hated, commuting 2,000 miles a month and up to his neck in debt. But he dreamed of escaping it all to live alone in one of the wildest, most remote places on earth - Alaska.
And just when he'd given up hope, the dream came true. Suddenly...
Hawks Rest
A Season in the Remote Heart of Yellowstone
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2015
"Among the many pleasures of rereading Gary Ferguson's Hawks Rest, is finding the prose even more accomplished than remembered, the wit more agile, the observations more revelatory, its stance in the world proved once again so precisely wise. Hawks Rest is a book I will return to again and again."-MARK...