Outdoor category: 2147 books
by Tovah Martin, Kindra Clineff
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
“Reminds us that the best way to get to know a garden is through our senses.” —Gardenista
So much of gardening is focused on the long list of chores—the weeding, planting, and pruning. But what about the joy a garden can provide? In The Garden in Every Sense and Season, Tovah Martin...
Hypertufa Containers
Creating and Planting an Alpine Trough Garden
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
“A complete guide to designing, making and planting hypertufa troughs.”—North American Rock Garden Society
Hypertufa containers—also known as troughs—are rustic, striking, versatile, and perfect for small, Alpine plants. A mix of cement, perlite, peat, and water, they are simple and...
Burger Parties
Recipes from Sutter Home Winery's Build a Better Burger Contest: A Cookbook
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2012
Each year, thousands of cooks from coast to coast compete in Sutter Home Winery’s Build a Better Burger® Recipe Contest. Ten of these creative home chefs are flown to Napa Valley each September to participate in the BBB Cook-Off, frequently shown on Food Network Challenge. Burger Parties marks...
Wilderness Secrets Revealed
Adventures of a Survivor
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2013
"Fire! Wake up! The shelter is on fire!"
His students affectionately call him "Doc Survival." He's Quebec's Indiana Jones in a forest setting. Searching for the treasures of the wilderness has been his life-long quest; with passion as his only guide, he has dared to penetrate...
by Henry David Thoreau
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2016
I wish to speak a word for Nature, for absolute freedom and wildness, as contrasted with a freedom and culture merely civil—to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of Nature, rather than a member of society. I wish to make an extreme statement, if so I may make an emphatic one, for...
Astream
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,...
1001 Hunting Tips
The Ultimate Guide to Successfully Taking Deer, Big and Small Game, Upland Birds, and Waterfowl
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2010
No matter how skilled a hunter you are right now, novice or expert, 1001 Hunting Tips will make you better. Author and outdoorsman Lamar Underwood offers words of wisdom on this adrenaline-filled sport and has put together a timeless guide on how to improve your hunting techniques. Within these pages...
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'...