Outdoors category: 5873 books
Cold Wars
Climbing the fine line between risk and reality
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
I was aware that I was cold - beyond cold. I was a lump of meat left for too long in a freezer, a body trapped beneath the ice, sinking down into the dark. 'I was freezing to death.' In this brilliant sequel to his award-winning debut "Psychovertical", mountaineering stand-up Andy Kirkpatrick...
Thieves, Liars and Mountaineers
On the 8,000m peak circus in Pakistan
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2011
This is the tale of Mark Horrell’s not-so-nearly ascent of Gasherbrum in Pakistan, of how one man’s boredom and frustration was conquered by a gutsy combination of exhaustion, cowardice, and sheer mountaineering incompetence.
He made not one, not two, but three intrepid assaults, some of...
by Andy Kirkpatrick
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2012
CLICK HERE to download the first chapter from PsychoverticalPsychovertical is the story of what happens to a nice lower-class kid with dyslexia who gains control over his circumstances by clinging to giant stone faces, thousands of feet in the air, for days at a time. In this case, Kirkpatrick...
The Boys of Everest
Chris Bonington and the Tragedy of Climbing's Greatest Generation
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
•The exploits of mountaineering’s most colorful band of adventurers
The Boys of Everest by Clint Willis tells the gripping story of “Bonington’s Boys,” a band of climbers who reinvented mountaineering during the three decades after Everest’s first ascent. It is a story of tremendous...
by Raymond Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Originally published in 1924. A practical handbook by a veteran trapper with extensive experience in the wilds of Western Canad. Contents Include : The Conquest of the Wilds Outfitting the Wilderness Trapper Outfitting the Wilderness Trapper Continued Outfitting Continued Getting Ready for the Fur...
by William Wasserman
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015
William Wasserman, a retired Pennsylvania game warden who has trapped everything from weasels to black bears, writes about his favorite sets and methods in a series of twenty-five chapters encompassing a lifetime on the trapline. This is not your typical how-to-trap book; there are plenty of those...
by William Wasserman
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015
William Wasserman, a retired Pennsylvania game warden and a fur trapper for over fifty years, explains how to catch muskrats and mink using foothold traps, body-gripping traps, and cage traps. He also goes into detail about proper trap sizes, equipment needed, dying and waxing traps, how to use lures...
by Roger Ascham
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Toxophilus -The School Of Shooting (History of Archery Series) Roger Ascham This work comprises of two books combined together: The First Book of the School of Shooting and The Second Book of the School of Shooting. They are written in the form of a dialogue between Toxophilus 'A lover of the bow'...
The Wild Duck Chase
Inside the Strange and Wonderful World of the Federal Duck Stamp Contest
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
THE WILD DUCK CHASE is the basis for “The Million Dollar Duck,” a documentary feature film, directed by Brian Golden Davis and written by Martin J. Smith, premiering at The Slamdance Film Festival in January 2016. The book takes readers into the peculiar world of competitive duck painting as it...
What Trout Want
The Educated Trout and Other Myths
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
• Catching trout simplified
• A brilliantly written and well-crafted exposes fly fishing's greatest myths--selectivity, matching the hatch, pressured fish, fish feeling pain, precise imitations, drag-free drifts
• Recipes for the author's tried-and-true patterns
• Practical, down-to-earth suggestions for catching fish
Habit of Rivers
Reflections On Trout Streams And Fly Fishing
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2006
Originally published in 1994, this book was a fly-fishing phenomenon in the way Howell Raines's Fly Fishing Through the Mid-Life Crisis was. Taking his fishing hobby to near metaphysical levels, Ted Leeson tells about his passions: rivers, trout, and fly fishing. With wry humor and rare insight, he...
Pop Fleyes
Bob Popovics's Approach to Saltwater Fly Design
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2000
"The most innovative fly tier I have ever known." --Lefty Kreh on Bob Popovics
"Bob Popovics has brought more creative ideas to the table in the last two decades than any other tier out there." --Dan Blanton
This is the first and only book available on the tier whose techniques...
Fisherman's Bible
The World's Most Comprehensive Angling Reference
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
In the tradition of the bestselling Shooter’s Bible, Skyhorse Publishing presents the Fisherman’s Bible, the most complete reference guide for new fishing equipment and their specifications. Now, anglers will only need one book to discover all the new gear on the market as well as lookup specs...
Fifty Favorite Fly-Fishing Tales
Expert Fly Anglers Share Stories from the Sea and Stream
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2012
For fishermen, the only thing more fun than catching fish are the stories they tell about those fish . . . and the ones that got away. Nobody knows that better than Chris Santella, author of the best-selling Fifty Places to Fly Fish Before You Die. For his latest homage to anglers, Santella invited...