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Beyond Fair Chase

The Ethnic & Tradition of Hunting

by Jim Posewitz
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2002

Beyond Fair Chase is for anyone concerned about the future of hunting. In simple but powerful text, it describes the ethical way to hunt, from preparation to shooting to care after the shot. Never before have so many issues been linked together in an ethical context.
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Primitive Skills and Crafts

An Outdoorsman's Guide to Shelters, Tools, Weapons, Tracking, Survival, and More

by Linda Jamison, Richard Jamison
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2007

Anyone eager to master survival skills for outdoor vacations, or simply to find a fun new family activity for a Saturday afternoon, will be educated and inspired by the practical advice presented here by archaeologists, anthropologists, primitive practitioners, craftsmen, and artisans. These experts...
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Sands Of Silence

On Safari In Namibia

by Peter Hathaway Capstick
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 1991

From renowned hunting writer Peter Hathaway Capstick comes the most lavishly illustrated, historically important safari ever captured in print. Capstick journeyed on safari through Namibia in the African spring of 1989. This was a nation on the eve on independence, a land scorched by sun, by...
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The Last Flight

A Novel

by Greg Liefer
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016

Set against the harsh beauty of Alaska, a veteran helicopter pilot is torn between ending his own embattled life and rescuing survivors from a mountain plane crash. Last Flight is the heroic story of Gil Connor, a senior Army helicopter pilot and aging Vietnam vet, as he struggles with an impending...
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The Lost Explorer

Finding Mallory On Mount Everest

by Conrad Anker, David Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 1999

This is the adventure story of the year -- how Conrad Anker found the body of George Mallory on Mount Everest, casting an entirely new light on the mystery of the explorer who may have conquered Everest seventy-five years ago. On June 8, 1924, George Leigh Mallory and Andrew "Sandy" Irvine were last...
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by Cathy O'Dowd
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014

At 8am on 29 May, 1999, Cathy O’Dowd, a 30-year-old mountaineer from South Africa, stepped onto the summit of Everest and into history. She had become the first woman to climb the highest mountain in the world from both its south (Edmund Hillary) and north (George Mallory) sides. To achieve this,...
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Dog Training: Retrievers and Pointing Dogs

Retrievers and Pointing Dogs

by Jason Smith
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2007

There is nothing more pleasing to an avid bird hunter than to watch a well-trained sporting dog do what it was bred to do: hunt. Likewise, there is nothing more pleasing to a pet owner than to watch their well-trained family dog interact in a calm and controlled manner with family and friends.With...
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Denali's Howl

The Deadliest Climbing Disaster on America's Wildest Peak

by Andy Hall
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2014

In the summer of 1967, twelve young men ascended Alaska’s Mount McKinley—known to the locals as Denali. Engulfed by a once-in-alifetime blizzard, only five made it back down.   Andy Hall, a journalist and son of the park superintendent at the time, was living in the park when the tragedy...
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by John Gierach
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2008

Brilliant, witty, perceptive essays about fly-fishing, the natural world, and life in general by the acknowledged master of fishing writers. If John Gierach is living in a fool’s paradise, then it’s a paradise that his regular readers will recognize and new fans will delight in discovering....
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by Theodore Roosevelt
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2000

Written during his days as a ranchman in the Dakota Bad Lands, these two wilderness tales by Theodore Roosevelt endure today as part of the classic folklore of the West. The narratives provide vivid portraits of the land as well as the people and animals that inhabited it, ever underscoring the author's...
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by Miriam Peskowitz, Andrea J Buchanan
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2009

The eagerly anticipated follow-up to the bestselling phenomenon The Daring Book for Girls is an even more daring guide to everything from making a raft to learning how to play football to the art of the Japanese Tea ceremony. This second volume, with all new original material, promises to be even...
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Basic Safe Travel and Boreal Survival Handbook

Gems from Wilderness Arts and Recreation Magazine

by Mors Kochanski
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2013

Basic Safe Travel and Boreal Survival - Gems from Wilderness Arts and Recreation Magazine This manual covers the following - Clothing-Sleeping Bag-Axe-Saw-Knife-Fire-Shelter-Bush Bed-The Most Edible Boreal Plants and Mushrooms-Cooking-Signal Fires-Current Survival Knowledge-Survival Kits for...
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by Eric Burnley
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011

A revolutionary technique is taking hold on anglers everywhere: kayak fishing. Kayaks get fishermen virtually anywhere in a craft that's inexpensive, almost maintenance-free, completely mobile and fully rigged for fishing. Previously unreachable waters are now able to be fished--and the results are...
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Build Your Own AK (Vol. II)

Building the Parts Kit

by Guy Montag, Nicoroshi
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014

Got an AK Parts Kit? This ebook shows you how to build it right! The AK-47 and its variants are world-renowned for being simple, rugged and nearly indestructible. But if you wanted to build your own Kalashnikov rifle there was no good single source of construction information—until now. This...
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