Outdoors category: 5873 books
The Creaky Knees Guide Northern California
The 80 Best Easy Hikes
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
From hikes just outside of San Francisco to long strolls in the Sierra Nevada, this book covers 80 of the best easy-to-walk hikes throughout the region, providing elevation gains, detailed maps, and up-to-date driving directions. It also includes hike mileage and estimated hiking times, trail conditions,...
The Marksmanship Primer
The Experts' Guide to Shooting Handguns and Rifles
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
The Marksmanship Primer serves as a roadmap to greater shooting proficiency as well as greater enjoyment of the sport of shooting. Jim Casada, renowned outdoors author and editor, has brought together the best selections from America's great gun writers of yesterday and today. Marksmen of all levels...
How to Die Down East
50 Ways (From Silly to Serious) to Kick the Bucket in Maine
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Maine is certainly an exciting place, with a plethora of outdoor activities to pursue. It’s also generally a safe place and most of those activities can be done by those with little to no experience. Don’t let that lull you into a false sense of security however, there are numerous ways to perish...
Mountaineering Holiday
An Outstanding Alpine Climbing Season, 1939
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2014
There is no holiday like a mountaineering holiday. For eleven months the mountaineer has sighed for the mountain wind on his cheek, for the lilt of the mountain stream, for the feel of rock in his hand, for the crunch of frozen snow beneath his feet, for the smell of mist and the fragrance of alp...
Hiking Michigan's Upper Peninsula
A Guide to the Area's Greatest Hikes
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
Hiking Michigan’s Upper Peninsula features fifty of the best hikes in Michigan’s beautiful Upper Peninsula. Detailed maps and trail descriptions make navigating these wonderful trails easy, from family-friend strolls to popular vistas to hillier wooded pathways.
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The Climbing Chronicles
A young climber exploring the mountains of Wales, the Lake District and Scotland in the 1940s
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
The Climbing Chronicles record the 1940s climbing exploits of Harry Parker. Born in Blackburn on 29 February 1916, Harry started climbing before the war and continued to do so after its conclusion, exploring the Peak District, Wales, the Lake District and Scotland. Each night he noted down his adventures...
by Christian P. Potholm
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
As a Maine Guide for 20 years and a hunter and fisherman since childhood, Christian Potholm knows the woods and waters of Maine from the coast to the North Woods. He brings it all to life with these humorous tales, astonishing and intriguing characters, and real-life dialogue. These are authentic,...
The Fly Fisher and the River
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
On angling as a woman in the first half of the twentieth century.
Like fast moving currents, the fishing tales in The Fly Fisher and the River move us through a selection of Max Atherton’s experiences both within rivers’ waters as well as at their outer edges. They remind us that alongside...
Joy of Backpacking
Your complete guide to attaining pure happiness in the outdoors
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
A comprehensive guide covering every aspect of how to backpack--from planning a first trip to advanced wilderness travel. For those new to the activity, longtime backpacker and author Brian Beffort covers the fundamentals, with sections on trip planning, gear, backcountry nutrition and cooking, navigation,...
by Zane Grey
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2018
Initially penned by the avid outdoors-man and western writer Zane Grey on March 21, 1885 in Lackawaxen, Pennsylvania, this is a rare short story by the author, often mistaken by the similarly themed "My First Tarpon" and ""Incidents on the Panuco." The plot is set in Tampico,...
by David Wescott
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
Back before the days of RVs, nylon sleeping bags, and all the other modern camping conveniences, people still went camping. This updated and newly designed color edition of Camping in the Old Style explores the techniques and methods used during the golden age of camping, including woodcraft, how...
by Gifford Pinchot
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
The catching of fish, said the Sage of Chocoloskee, is but an incident in fishing. He told the frozen truth. To be out in the open where fish are; to watch them at their great business of living; to see them in the water or out of the water; to fish for them, and even to hook them and have them get...
Whitetail Savvy
New Research and Observations about America's Most Popular Big Game Animal
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
Wildlife author and photographer of more than thirty books (including The Encyclopedia of Deer, The Deer Hunter’s Illustrated Dictionary, and Whitetails), Leonard Lee Rue III provides the most comprehensive reference on whitetail deer ever published. This book will appeal to anyone remotely interested...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
"Besides being one of our greatest presidents, Roosevelt stands alone as a conservationist, a visionary when it came to the protection and preservation of America's natural resources, and an author."--Library Journal
There have been few hunters as daring, as powerful, and as articulate as our...