Outdoor Skills category: 1281 books
Basic Rockhounding and Prospecting
A Beginner's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2019
A Beginner’s Guide to Rockhounding, Gem Collecting, Gold Prospecting, and Fossil Hunting
Basic Rockhounding and Prospecting is aimed at anyone who is interested in learning the basics of collecting rocks and minerals. It’s the perfect companion title to the more advanced Modern Rockhounding...
by Garret Romaine
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
This volume gives you the basic tools to transition from “pebble pup” to expert rockhound and explains everything from geology basics, identification tips, tools of the trade, how to record your findings, and how to set up a lab or gem shop. Before you know it, you’ll be driving the open roads...
Bungy Jumping
The Complete Guide To Bungi, Bungee Jumping Bridge, Bungy Jumper, Bungee Cords, Bungee Sling
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
With this top-rated guide learn about bungy jumping, bungi, bungee jumping bridge, bungy jumper, bungee cords, bungee sling.
Climbing
From Toproping to Sport
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
This handy, pocket-size manual provides easy-to-understand, step-by-step guidance to climbers transitioning from basic rock climbing to sport climbing, which involves scaling larger, more challenging rock walls that have fixed anchors.
Beyond Catch & Release
Exploring the Future of Fly Fishing
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2011
Will fly fishing survive the twenty-first century? Author and angler Paul Guernsey argues that angling and the natural resources it depends upon-clear rivers, unpolluted oceans, and much more-are threatened by a host of increasingly complex social and environmental factors. Tradition, conservation...
by Mike Dawes
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
Newcomers to the wonderful world of fly tying should look no further than The Fly Tier’s Manual for all their needs. Written by the incredibly talented Mike Dawes, who has been tying flies and fishing in Hampshire for decades and runs International Fly, largely considered one of the best manufacturers...
Knack First Aid
A Complete Illustrated Guide
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2010
Knack First Aid covers the most common injuries and illnesses, how to recognize them, how to manage them and, when appropriate, how to prevent them.
Best Climbs Phoenix, Arizona
The Best Sport and Trad Routes in the Area
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Best Climbs Phoenix Arizona is the next installment in the Best Climbs series from Falcon, appealing specifically to traveling climbers and local climbers who wanted to be directed toward the best local climbing. Although the Best Climbs guides feature routes of all grades, the emphasis is on moderate...
Lion Tales
Thirty Years Hunting the American Cougar
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2008
Jonathon Kibler, a cougar-hunting specialist, has been hunting American lions since his early teens. Hunting lions with hounds on dry ground in the Southwest is arguably the hardest method of hunting these large cats. Kibler has mastered this skill and his hunting adventures have elevated him with the...
Sporting Firearms of Today in Use
A Look Back at the Guns and Attitudes of the 1920s?and Why They Still Matter
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
The world of sporting firearms is a constantly changing one, but it’s always important to remember the past of the sport. Sporting Firearms of Today in Use is a vintage text written by the shooting editor of Field and Stream during that time. Full of incredible insights, Sporting Firearms of Today...
by W. W. Greener
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
First published in Great Britain in 1881 and subsequently revised nine times between then and 1910, The Gun and Its Development traces the fascinating history of weaponry: the obscure, ancient origins of the slingshot and the bow, the invention of the crossbow, possibly around 1000 AD; the introduction...
The Crack Shot
or Young Rifleman's Complete Guide: Being a Treatise on the Use of the Rifle
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
Hunting and sport shooting is steeped in tradition with the concept of passing it on being one of the most important things a rifleman can learn besides gun safety. Written with a grace that often characterized nineteenth century books, The Crack Shot is not only a quaint snapshot of another time,...
Automatic Arms
Their History, Development and Use
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
The evolution of automatic weapons is one of the most significant developments in weapons history. While this development has been filled with disagreements, controversy, and stray hurdles, out of all of this tumult, shouting, and shooting has come the progress in firearms from the days when it was...
by Dale P. Clemens
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
"Hand a person a custom made rod," says expert rod maker Dale P. Clemens, "and in almost every instance one of the first things he looks at is the decorative thread work," because a handsome rod is more desirable to own and fish. Clemens guides his readers through the organizational process of threading,...