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In 1994, Bob Garner began doing short features about barbecue for UNC-TV’s statewide public-television magazine program, North Carolina Now. In 1996, he published North Carolina Barbecue: Flavored by Time, taking readers on a delectable journey across the state in search of the best examples of...

As a continuance from the previous others QWO VR.1 QWO VR.2. This one isn't any different just a more thorough rendering in the writer I myself perspective, or available rhyme's. This isn't the end of all anything I'll be doing writing, but a purpose for peoples misconceptions of the idea about a...

Bob Shepton is an ordained minister in the Church of England in his 70s, but spends most of his time sailing into the Arctic and making first ascents of inaccessible mountains. No tea parties for this vicar. Opening with the disastrous fire that destroyed his yacht whilst he was ice-bound in...

Each year, thousands of competitors pit themselves against the elements, extremes of geography and their own psyches to take part in the world's hardest physical challenges. From the cold of the highest peaks to the unforgiving heat of the desert, by sea, bike or foot seemingly ordinary people are...

What do fierljeppen, running 156 miles in the Sahara desert and coal-carrying all have in common? They’re just some of the wackiest, toughest and most extreme manpower races and challenges dreamt up by the human race. This fact-packed miscellany is bursting with all the details, statistics...

Want to give your children a lifetime experience that they will never forget? Send them to summer day camp! Yes, that's right! Summer day camp provides very good learning experiences for the children, shaping them up for the future. Skills involved are leadership, team building, decision making...

Charring, searing, smoking, burning . . . Techniques for achieving mouthwatering dishes with crispy textures and deep, robust flavors are no longer limited to the world of barbecue. Many in the culinary industry who’ve mastered the exciting art of food and fire refer to the savory result as the...

“The spirited account of how a Scottish newspaper sales executive built and lived in a log cabin in the middle of the Alaskan wilderness . . . Engaging” (Kirkus Reviews). A man, an axe, and a dog named Fuzzy . . . let the adventure begin! Trapped in a job he hated and up to his neck in...

During the summer of 1998, Peter Mortimer set off on the 500-mile journey from Plymouth to Edinburgh, accompanied only by his King Charles spaniel. He took no money and had no transport or pre-arranged accommodation. Bereft of the basics necessary for human existence, such as food and shelter, he was dependent for his survival on his own wits, the generosity of others and good fortune.

Brilliant, witty, perceptive essays about fly-fishing, the natural world, and life in general by the acknowledged master of fishing writers. Fly-fishing’s finest scribe, John Gierach, takes us from a nameless stream on a nameless ranch in Montana to a secret pool off a secret creek where...

A rich and revelatory memoir of a young woman reclaiming her courage in the stark landscapes of the north. By the time Blair Braverman was eighteen, she had left her home in California, moved to arctic Norway to learn to drive sled dogs, and found work as a tour guide on a glacier in Alaska....

We have all heard the sayings, a few sandwiches short of a picnic, or sharp as a marble. What we are really trying to say is that the person we are referencing is maybe a little out there, not normal or right in the mind.I prefer to think of myself as one button off. At first glance all appears right,...

While NASA was sending a man to the moon, this cowboy was still roping cows, branding calves, shoeing horses, packing mules, and fixing pickups in a snowbank alongside of the road. Collected here are a series of triumphs and tribulations from a life in the cow country of Montana. Filled with humor,...