Outdoor category: 2147 books
Meat Eater
Adventures from the Life of an American Hunter
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
“Revelatory . . . With every chapter, you get a history lesson, a hunting lesson, a nature lesson and a cooking lesson. . . . Meat Eater offers an overabundance to savor.”—The New York Times Book Review
Steven Rinella grew up in Twin Lake, Michigan, the son of a hunter who taught his...
by Eric Blehm
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Destined to become a classic of adventure literature, The Last Season examines the extraordinary life of legendary backcountry ranger Randy Morgenson and his mysterious disappearance in California's unforgiving Sierra Nevada—mountains as perilous as they are beautiful. Eric Blehm's masterful work...
Rock Climbing Technique
The Practical Guide to Movement Mastery
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
If you have ever wanted to move effortlessly and get the most from your hard-won climbing fitness, this is the guide you've been waiting for.
Getting better at rock climbing doesn’t have to be about strength, endurance, flexibility or hours spent on repetitive training. It doesn’t need...
The Scavenger's Guide to Haute Cuisine
How I Spent a Year in the American Wild to Re-create a Feast from the Classic Recipes of French Master Chef Auguste Escoffier
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
When outdoorsman, avid hunter, and nature writer Steven Rinella stumbles upon Auguste Escoffier’s 1903 milestone Le Guide Culinaire, he’s inspired to assemble an unusual feast: a forty-five-course meal born entirely of Escoffier’s esoteric wild game recipes. Over the course of one unforgettable...
The Will to Climb
Obsession and Commitment and the Quest to Climb Annapurna--the World's Deadliest Peak
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
The bestselling author of The Mountain and No Shortcuts to the Top chronicles his three attempts to climb the world's tenth-highest and statistically deadliest peak while exploring the dramatic and tragic history of others who have made—or attempted—the ascent
As a high school student,...
by Peter Goodchild
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1999
This comprehensive review of Native American life skills covers collecting and preparing plant foods and medicines; hunting animals; creating and transporting fire; and crafting tools, shelter, clothing, utensils, and other devices. Step-by-step instructions and 145 detailed diagrams enable the reader...
by J. R. Whittaker
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2012
What do I need to survive? Do I stay or do I go?
This book will take you through what you need to know and consider in order to survive.
We will look at items you will need for going mobile and if you stay.
Broken up into priority levels starting with the bare essentials to rebuilding your life in a post disaster situation.
Contains an example list for going mobile.
Every Shot Counts
Using the Revolutionary Strokes Gained Approach to Improve Your Golf Performance and Strategy
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2014
Columbia Business School professor Mark Broadie’s paradigm-shifting approach that uses statistics and golf analytics to transform the game.
Mark Broadie is at the forefront of a revolutionary new approach to the game of golf. What does it take to drop ten strokes from your golf score? What...
The Last Flight
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Set against the harsh beauty of Alaska, a veteran helicopter pilot is torn between ending his own embattled life and rescuing survivors from a mountain plane crash.
Last Flight is the heroic story of Gil Connor, a senior Army helicopter pilot and aging Vietnam vet, as he struggles with an impending...
by Cathy O'Dowd
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
At 8am on 29 May, 1999, Cathy O’Dowd, a 30-year-old mountaineer from South Africa, stepped onto the summit of Everest and into history. She had become the first woman to climb the highest mountain in the world from both its south (Edmund Hillary) and north (George Mallory) sides. To achieve this,...
by John Gierach
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2008
Brilliant, witty, perceptive essays about fly-fishing, the natural world, and life in general by the acknowledged master of fishing writers.
If John Gierach is living in a fool’s paradise, then it’s a paradise that his regular readers will recognize and new fans will delight in discovering....
by Miriam Peskowitz, Andrea J Buchanan
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2009
The eagerly anticipated follow-up to the bestselling phenomenon The Daring Book for Girls is an even more daring guide to everything from making a raft to learning how to play football to the art of the Japanese Tea ceremony. This second volume, with all new original material, promises to be even...
Basic Safe Travel and Boreal Survival Handbook
Gems from Wilderness Arts and Recreation Magazine
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2013
Basic Safe Travel and Boreal Survival - Gems from Wilderness Arts and Recreation Magazine
This manual covers the following - Clothing-Sleeping Bag-Axe-Saw-Knife-Fire-Shelter-Bush Bed-The Most Edible Boreal Plants and Mushrooms-Cooking-Signal Fires-Current Survival Knowledge-Survival Kits for...
by The Blokehead
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
There are different motifs for studying and learning bushcraft. Some do it purely for the thrill of abandoning the security of civilization and venturing into an unknown area with a burgeoning vulnerability as his sole companion. Others do it for practicality’s sake – so they could be prepared...