Outdoors category: 5873 books
by Robert Paine
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
Are You and Your Family Ready to Survive the Next Disaster?
Prepping 101: A Beginner’s Survival Guide will teach you the fundamental rules of basic survival for helping you and your family survive no matter the situation, all in simple terms that even the most novice of beginners can understand...
Tales of a Bear Hunter
Forty-One Years of Recollections from a Professional Bear Hunter
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
As a professional bear hunter for 41 years, Carr has written a real page-turner.
by Henry Pottinger
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
by Wayne J. Fears
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 1994
Scrape hunting, the process of searching out and reading the trails left by bucks scraping out dirt and marking the area of their territories, is one of the truly effective tools in locating whitetails. Fears combines his training as a wildlife biologist and as a master woodsman with his impressive writing credentials to bring us the definitive guide to scrapes.
Bird Dog Days, Wingshooting Ways
Archibald Rutledge's Tales of Upland Hunting
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Archibald Rutledge has long been recognized as one of the finest sporting scribes this country has ever produced. A prolific writer who specialized in stories on nature and hunting, over the course of a long and prolific career Rutledge produced more than fifty books of poetry and prose, held the...
Stalking Salmon & Wrestling Drunks
Confessions of a Charter Boat Skipper
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2016
Each fisherman steps onto the docks, sees Peter Gordon's boat the MV Kalua, glances at the other members of the charter and feels a rush of anticipation. The challenge is on to see who will catch the biggest fish.
Told with a skipper's authority, Stalking Salmon and Wrestling Drunks recounts...
by William Humphrey
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
**William Humphrey’s delightful chronicle of an angling holiday in Wales celebrates two equally astonishing creatures: the Atlantic salmon and the British fly fisherman **
In order to mate in the same freshwater stream where it was spawned, the salmon swims one thousand miles or more and...
Funny Shit in the Woods and Other Stories
The Best of Semi-Rad.com
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Brendan Leonard's Semi-Rad.com has become the funny, introspective voice of everyman and everywoman adventurers—from the pitfalls of introducing a new love interest to a dangerous sport, to the mishaps we have trying to use the bathroom in the wild. Since 2011, more than one million visitors have...
The Impossible Climb
Alex Honnold, El Capitan, and the Climbing Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
**INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER
NEW YORK TIMES MONTHLY BESTSELLER
One of the 10 Best Books of March, Paste Magazine
A deeply reported insider perspective of Alex Honnold’s historic achievement and the culture and history of climbing.
“One of the most compelling accounts of a climb...
The Tower
A Chronicle of Climbing and Controversy on Cerro Torre
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
Patagonia’s Cerro Torre, considered by many the most beautiful peak in the world, draws the finest and most devoted technical alpinists to its climbing challenges. But controversy has swirled around this ice-capped peak since Cesare Maestri claimed first ascent in 1959. Since then a debate has raged,...
No Place to Fall
Superalpinism in the High Himalaya
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
No Place to Fall is Victor Saunder's follow up to his Boardman Tasker Prize winning debut book Elusive Summits. Covering three expeditions to familiar and unfamiliar ranges in Nepal, the Karakoram and the Kumaon, each shares the exhilaration of attempting new alpine-style routes on terrifyingly committing...
Elusive Summits
Four expeditions in the Karakoram
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Elusive Summits is the award winning first book by British mountaineer Victor Saunders, winner of the 1990 Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature. Documenting climbs in the 1980s, at a time when the greatest mountains in the greatest ranges had been climbed by numerous routes, collected like...
The Chomolungma Diaries
Climbing Mount Everest with a commercial expedition
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2012
In April 2012 Mark Horrell travelled to Tibet hoping to become, if not the first person to climb Mount Everest, at least the first Karl Pilkington lookalike to do so.
He joined a mountaineering expedition which included an Australian sexagenarian, two Brits whose idea of hydration meant a box...
by Joe Tasker
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
I could never again maintain that I was caught up in this game unwillingly. I knew now what I wanted to do. Willingly would I accept the hardship and fear, the discipline and the sacrifices, if only I could be given back the chance to climb that mountain.' Joe Tasker lies, struck down by a tooth abscess,...