Outdoors category: 5873 books
Above & Beyond
Around the world in twelve months, scaling ist highest peaks
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2011
Nanga Parbat Pilgrimage
The great mountaineering classic
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
In 1953 Hermann Buhl made the first ascent of Nanga Parbat - the ninth-highest mountain in the world, and the third 8,000-metre peak to be climbed, following Annapurna and Everest. It was one of the most incredible and committed climbs ever made. Continuing alone and without supplementary oxygen,...
Death Grip
A Climber's Escape from Benzo Madness
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Death Grip chronicles a top climber's near-fatal struggle with anxiety and depression, and his nightmarish journey through the dangerous world of prescription drugs. Matt Samet lived to climb, and craved the challenge, risk, and exhilaration of conquering sheer rock faces around the United States...
The Earth Is Enough
Growing Up in a World of Flyfishing, Trout & Old Men
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1996
In this touching memoir of his boyhood on a farm in the Ozark foothills, Harry Middleton joins the front rank of nature writers alongside Edward Hoagland and Annie Dillard. It is the year1965, a year rife with change in the world and in the life of a boy whose tragic loss of innocence leads him to...
Statement
The Ben Moon Story
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
On 14 June 1990, at Raven Tor in the Derbyshire Peak District, twenty-four-year-old Ben Moon squeezed his feet into a pair of rock shoes, tied in to his rope, chalked his fingers and pulled on to the wickedly overhanging, zebra-striped wall of limestone. Two minutes later he had made rock-climbing...
by Dibs Baer
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2019
**A rousing and empowering story of dedication and overcoming all odds, featuring the tough and unforgettable athletes of the champion Lady Tigers softball team. **
Violence was a way of life for the girls of Mott Middle School in the South Bronx. Some woke up to it at home, and others...
by Theodore Roosevelt, T. Maxwell Witham, Rowland Evans Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2014
This antique text contains a detailed account of various big game hunting expeditions around the United States. Written by Theodore Roosevelt, this fascinating text is both entertaining and informative, and is sure to appeal to anyone with an interest in hunting or in the life and work of one of the...
Sacred Summits
The Carstensz Pyramid, Kangchenjunga and Gauri Sankar
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Mountaintops have long been seen as sacred places, home to gods and dreams. In one climbing year Peter Boardman visited three very different sacred mountains. He began on the South Face of the Carstensz Pyramid in New Guinea. This is the highest point between the Andes and the Himalaya, and one of...
by Joe Simpson
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
When Simon Yates cut the rope and sent his friend plummeting to an ordeal few mountaineers can have contemplated, the outcome was totally unpredictable. That Joe Simpson survived is a revelation of the power of the human spirit to overcome fear, pain and deprivation of almost unimaginable intensity....
by John Harding
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
In Distant Snows, mountaineer John Harding recollects his worldwide adventures spanning sixty years across Europe, Iran, East Africa, Asia, Australia, New Zealand and the Arctic. He climbed many classic peaks including Mont Blanc, Mount Kenya, and Mount Cook, explored obscure ranges, and pioneered...
Born Under a Stump
The Life and Legend of Big Bill Hulet
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2003
Born Under a Stump is a biography of Bill Hulet, a legendary bear hunter. Working for various timber concerns, he thinned the black bear who ruined thousands of young trees on the Olympic Peninsula tree farms in Washington State. He quite possibly killed more bear than anyone who ever lived. His life also embraced the era of old growth logging.
The Next Horizon
From the Eiger to the south face of Annapurna
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
The Next Horizon, the second volume in Chris Bonington's autobiography after I Chose to Climb, picks up his story from 1962 and relates his subsequent adventures as a mountaineer, photographer, journalist and expedition leader alongside eminent climbers including Doug Scott and Don Whillans, throughout...
Body Language at Work
Learn the Secret Meaning Behind Every Move
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Raised eyebrows, rubbing one’s chin, angled shoulders - what’s it all mean? Master the art of nonverbal communication and you’ll unlock these secrets and more. Body Language at Work is your quick course in interpreting office place body language. Now you’ll know just what your bosses and coworkers are thinking - without them having to say a word.
by William Lowell Putnam, Andrew J. Kauffman
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
The story of the 1939 American K2 expedition is well known among mountaineers: world-class German-born climber Fritz Wiessner and Pasang Dawa Lama came within 800 feet of attaining the world's second-highest unclimbed summit before turning back for more supplies. Rejoining them on the descent was...