Outdoors category: 5873 books
by Harvey Berman
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, a marksman is someone skilled at shooting at a mark or target. This is a book for hand-gunners who want to be marksmen.
Handgun Marksmanship is a learner’s guide to shooting straight and hitting what you aim at. Each chapter is a separate lesson...
by Robert B. Benson, Tammy L. Benson
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
You volunteered to coach the softball team, but are you ready? How will you teach the fundamental skills, run effective practices, and harness the energy of your young team? Fear not: Survival Guide for Coaching Youth Softball has the answers. Longtime coaches Robert and Tammy Benson share their experiences...
by Cody Lundin
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2003
"If you breathe and have a pulse, you NEED this book."
-Cody Lundin
Cody Lundin, director of the Aboriginal Living Skills School in Prescott, Arizona, shares his own brand of wilderness wisdom in this highly anticipated new book on commonsense, modern survival skills for the backcountry,...
Left for Dead
My Journey Home from Everest
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2000
With a new preface by the author • As featured in the upcoming motion picture Everest, starring Jason Clarke, Josh Brolin, John Hawkes, Robin Wright, Emily Watson, Keira Knightley, Sam Worthington, and Jake Gyllenhaal
“I can tell you that some force within me rejected death at the last...
Annapurna: The First Conquest of an 8,000-Meter Peak
The First Conquest of an 8,000-Meter Peak
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011
Mountaineer Maurice Herzog gives a gripping firsthand account of one of the most daring climbing expeditions in history
Annapurna I is the name given to the 8,100-meter mountain that ranks among the most forbidding in the Himalayan chain. Dangerous not just for its extreme height but for a...
Good Call
Reflections on Faith, Family, and Fowl
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
The straight-faced, funny man of Duck Dyanasty has a real story to tell. Not a repeat of the previous Duck Dynasty books, Jase opens up about his personal family life, his childhood days with a drunken father, and how he came to faith.
This open book from Jase may surprise some fans who love...
The Ledge
An Inspirational Story of Friendship and Survival
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The authors bring extreme climbing to life. . . . Perhaps no author can rationalize why some choose to risk their lives . . . for the thrill of conquering a mountain. The Ledge comes perilously close and tells a ripping true story at the same time.”—The Denver...
by Mors Kochanski
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2012
Top Seven Knots and the Use of the Windlass
1. Jam, 2. Constrictor, 3. Non-inverting Slippery Bowline, 4. Slippery Sheet Bend, 5. Slippery Figure of 8, 6. Prusik, 7. Reef. As knots are found in families, there are a few bonus knots included. Favour the ones you find most...
by Mors Kochanski
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2012
Tools of Survival and Survival Training
This is a training booklet that applies to all walks of life, including the sharpness of the knife one chooses to use in survival. The time taken to master knife sharpening is highly variable. Once you know what to do the fast learner...
Spy Secrets That Can Save Your Life
A Former CIA Officer Reveals Safety and Survival Techniques to Keep You and Your Family Protected
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
The New York Times bestseller that reveals the safety, security, and survival techniques that 99% of Americans don’t know—but should
When Jason Hanson joined the CIA in 2003, he never imagined that the same tactics he used as a CIA officer for counter intelligence, surveillance, and protecting...
by Mors Kochanski
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2012
Knife Sharpening
This is a training booklet that applies to all walks of life, including the sharpness of the knife one chooses to use in survival. The time taken to master knife sharpening is highly variable. Once you know what to do the fast learner takes about 4 accumulated...
by Zach Davis
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2012
Each year, it is estimated that more than 2,000 people set out to thru-hike the Appalachian Trail, yet seven in ten ultimately fall short of their goal. Given the countless number of how-to books and websites offering information about logistics, gear, and endurance training, one would think that...
Will to Live
Dispatches from the Edge of Survival
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
In a survival situation, a wrong decision could spell the difference between life and death.
No one knows this better than Les Stroud, who has survived everywhere from the sun-scorched sands of the Kalahari to the snake-infested jungles of the Amazon. In Will to Live, Les examines many incredible...
Death in the Long Grass
A Big Game Hunter's Adventures in the African Bush
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 1978
As thrilling as any novel, as taut and exciting as any adventure story, Peter Hathaway Capstick’s Death in the Long Grass takes us deep into the heart of darkness to view Africa through the eyes of one of the most renowned professional hunters.
Few men can say they have known Africa as Capstick...