Outdoors category: 5873 books
Rock Climbing Technique
The Practical Guide to Movement Mastery
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
If you have ever wanted to move effortlessly and get the most from your hard-won climbing fitness, this is the guide you've been waiting for.
Getting better at rock climbing doesn’t have to be about strength, endurance, flexibility or hours spent on repetitive training. It doesn’t need...
Allen & Mike's Really Cool Backpackin' Book
Traveling & camping skills for a wilderness environment
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2001
The dynamic duo has done it again! Following up on the incredible success of their two previous bestsellers, Allen and Mike's Really Cool Backcountry Ski Book and Really Cool Telemark Tips, these two National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS) instructors and hardcore backcountry fanatics once again combine...
The Scavenger's Guide to Haute Cuisine
How I Spent a Year in the American Wild to Re-create a Feast from the Classic Recipes of French Master Chef Auguste Escoffier
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
When outdoorsman, avid hunter, and nature writer Steven Rinella stumbles upon Auguste Escoffier’s 1903 milestone Le Guide Culinaire, he’s inspired to assemble an unusual feast: a forty-five-course meal born entirely of Escoffier’s esoteric wild game recipes. Over the course of one unforgettable...
The Will to Climb
Obsession and Commitment and the Quest to Climb Annapurna--the World's Deadliest Peak
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
The bestselling author of The Mountain and No Shortcuts to the Top chronicles his three attempts to climb the world's tenth-highest and statistically deadliest peak while exploring the dramatic and tragic history of others who have made—or attempted—the ascent
As a high school student,...
by Peter Goodchild
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1999
This comprehensive review of Native American life skills covers collecting and preparing plant foods and medicines; hunting animals; creating and transporting fire; and crafting tools, shelter, clothing, utensils, and other devices. Step-by-step instructions and 145 detailed diagrams enable the reader...
Seaworthy
A Swordboat Captain Returns to the Sea
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
The bestselling author's sequel to The Hungry Ocean--a fast-paced account of her return to swordfishing
Linda Greenlaw hadn't been bluewater fishing for ten years- not since the events chronicled in the books The Perfect Storm and The Hungry Ocean-but when her lobster traps aren't paying off,...
by Diane Greer
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
Updated and Revised in 2019 - An opinionated guide to the best hikes in one of Colorado's best hiking areas, the Sawatch and Elk Mountains in central Colorado around the towns of Aspen, Buena Vista, Crested Butte, Marble and Leadville. The Sawatch and Elk Mountain ranges offer the quintessential Rocky...
by Glenn Shute
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
you flick out your favourite lure into the reeds and begin to slowly retrieve the line. a ripple appears, moving fast towards the lure and then suddenly the fish strikes and you are in for the fight of your life!bass fishing has now become a world wide past time enjoyed by millions of people...
To the Last Breath
A Memoir of Going to Extremes
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
A journey to the most extreme points on Earth and deep inside the human spirit
Before Georgetown physics professor Francis Slakey decided to climb the highest mountain on every continent and surf every ocean, he had shut himself off from other people. His lectures were mechanical; his relationships...
Hunting Booger Bottom
Life Lessons from the Field
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
“Michael [Waddell] is the real McCoy. Down to earth, clever, genuine, well-grounded, funny as all hell, kind, generous, decent, and surely one of the best natural hunters and woodsmen that I have ever grilled a sacred backstrap with.” —Ted Nugent
From hunting legend Michael Waddell, star...
by J. R. Whittaker
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2012
What do I need to survive? Do I stay or do I go?
This book will take you through what you need to know and consider in order to survive.
We will look at items you will need for going mobile and if you stay.
Broken up into priority levels starting with the bare essentials to rebuilding your life in a post disaster situation.
Contains an example list for going mobile.
Every Shot Counts
Using the Revolutionary Strokes Gained Approach to Improve Your Golf Performance and Strategy
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2014
Columbia Business School professor Mark Broadie’s paradigm-shifting approach that uses statistics and golf analytics to transform the game.
Mark Broadie is at the forefront of a revolutionary new approach to the game of golf. What does it take to drop ten strokes from your golf score? What...
by John Cramer
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2011
This is a book about the science of shooting guns but it also applies to archery. Beginning with the most basic science, that gravity means you can never shoot straight, it carefully and clearly explains the physical science behind all aspects of shooting. Projectile motion, the effects of air resistance...
Eiger Dreams
Ventures Among Men and Mountains
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2009
No one writes about mountaineering and its attendant hardships and victories more brilliantly than critically acclaimed author Jon Krakauer. In this collection of his finest work from such magazines as Outside and Smithsonian, he explores the subject from the unique and memorable perspective of one...