Outdoors category: 5873 books
by Zane Grey
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2015
Death Valley was one place that could never be popular with men. It had been set apart for the hardy diggers for earthen treasure, and for the wanderers of the wastelands—men who go forth to seek and to find and to face their souls. Perhaps most of them found death. But there was a death in life....
by Zane Grey
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Pearl Zane Grey was best known for his popular adventure novels and stories that were a basis for the Western genre in literature and the arts, but he also wrote two hunting books, six children’s books, three baseball books, and eight fishing books. It is estimated that he wrote over nine million...
Gorge
My Journey Up Kilimanjaro at 300 Pounds
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
The inspiring memoir of a plus-size woman who summited Kilimanjaro while overcoming fat prejudice and her own demons--"I was moved and inspired by every page of this beautiful book" (Cheryl Strayed)
Kara Richardson Whitely was determined to reach the summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro. But...
Look Big
And Other Tips for Surviving Animal Encounters of All Kinds
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
A humorous and helpful illustrated field guide to avoiding interactions--both dangerous and annoying--with 50 wild animals, including survival techniques, wildlife etiquette, and other essential advice.
As humans encroach on wild places, encounters with animals--from bears, bison, mountain...
by Art Scheck
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2003
On a good evening in June I can hear the frogs booming and croaking the instant I shut down the car in the parking lot a hundred yards from the pond in the middle of town. . . . By the time I've reached the end of the path, I've shut out the sounds of cars a hundred yards away on Main Street. For...
Wilderness Secrets Revealed
Adventures of a Survivor
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2013
"Fire! Wake up! The shelter is on fire!"
His students affectionately call him "Doc Survival." He's Quebec's Indiana Jones in a forest setting. Searching for the treasures of the wilderness has been his life-long quest; with passion as his only guide, he has dared to penetrate...
The Cabin
A Search for Personal Sanctuary
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2005
One hundred years ago, a young doctor from Cleveland by the name of Robert Newcomb, travelled north to a place called Temagami. It was as far north as one could travel by any modern means. Beautiful beyond any simple expletive, the Temagami wilderness was a land rich in timber, clear-water lakes,...
The Nature Books of Henry David Thoreau – 6 Titles in One Volume (Illustrated Edition)
Journeys, Adventures & Life in Harmony with Nature: Walden, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, The Maine Woods, Cape Cod, A Yankee in Canada & Canoeing in the Wilderness
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
"A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers" is a narrative of a 2 week boat trip from Concord, Massachusetts, down the Concord River to the Middlesex Canal, to the Merrimack River, up to Concord, New Hampshire, and back, taken by Thoreau and his brother John. It covers diverse topics such...
by Henry David Thoreau
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2016
I wish to speak a word for Nature, for absolute freedom and wildness, as contrasted with a freedom and culture merely civil—to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of Nature, rather than a member of society. I wish to make an extreme statement, if so I may make an emphatic one, for...
Astream
American Writers on Fly Fishing
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2012
This marvelous collection features stories from some of America’s finest and most respected writers about one of the world’s most solitary and satisfying sports: fly fishing. For the first time, the stories of thirty-one acclaimed writers including Kim Barnes, Walter Bennett, Russell Chatham,...
The Pacific Crest Trailside Reader, Oregon and Washington
Adventure, History, and Legend on the Long-Distance Trail
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2011
* Unique woodcut illustrations decorate both volumes * Trail map to follow story locations in each volume * For both hikers and armchair adventurers of the PCT Exploring the people, places, and history of the Pacific Crest Trail as it ranges 2,600 miles from Mexico to Canada, THE PACIFIC CREST TRAILSIDE...
Cowboy Trout
Western Fly Fishing As If It Matters
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
In Cowboy Trout, historian-angler Paul Schullery chronicles many great moments in western fly fishing, from pioneer anglers casting the first flies on wilderness streams to the unexpected modern emergence of fly fishing as a political, commercial, and even spiritual presence in the lives of many westerners....
by David Carpenter
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2010
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""The two greatest things about Carpenter's sterling hunting memoir is how well-informed and precise it is -- positively erudite; but never show-offish or exclusive. The second involves how much this knowing-ness is the natural tropism of the author’s great and generous heart,...
Field & Stream: The Best American Hunting Stories
Exciting true-life tales from America's leading outdoor writers
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
A collection of the best stories shared throughout the 114 years of Field & Stream magazine, about big game, loyal friends, and the respect that nature commands. From the absolute authorities on outdoor sports and adventure who have earned a reputation for quality writing, plus classic tales from literary...