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by John Gierach
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Brilliant, witty, perceptive essays about fly-fishing, the natural world, and life in general by the acknowledged master of fishing writers.
“Good fishing and good writing use the same skills,” writes John Gierach, “whether you’re after a trout or a story, you won’t get that far with...
by John Gierach
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
Brilliant, witty, perceptive essays about fly-fishing, the natural world, and life in general by the acknowledged master of fishing writers.
“In the world of fishing there are magic phrases that are guaranteed to summon the demon. Among them are: ‘remote trout lake,’ ‘fish up to 13...
by Gordon Groene, Janet Groene
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2001
Revised and updated for today’s younger, savvier RV owners, this new edition of Janet and Gordon Groene’s classic features a new section on home schooling, a more comprehensive resources section, and updated coverage on using the Internet to take care of such things as banking; staying in touch...
The Fisherman's Prayer
Stories, Poems, and Prayers<Br> from The<Br> Olympic Peninsula
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2007
Pat Neal has a problem. It's not gambling, drinking, or sex. His addiction comes in the form of the salmon and steelhead that swim in the rainforest rivers of the Olympic Peninsula. As a child, he was diagnosed with a severe case of fishing attention deficit disorder (FADD), a disease that plagues...
Body of Water
A Sage, a Seeker, and the World's Most Elusive Fish
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
Chris Dombrowski was playing a numbers game: two passions-poetry and fly-fishing; two children, one of them in utero; and an income hovering perilously close to zero. Enter, at this particularly challenging moment, a miraculous email: can’t go, it’s all paid for, just book a flight to Miami.Thus...
by Stephen Sautner
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
Fish On, Fish Off is the angling version of Bill Bryson’s A Walk in the Woods. Through a series of nearly 50 personal essays, the author explores what happens when the self-taught, DIY angler sets out to fish the world – and winds up stumbling into every possible pitfall and danger along the way....
by Christopher Nyerges
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
An array of abundant wild foods is available to hikers, campers, foragers, or anyone interested in living closer to the earth. Written by a leading expert on wild foods and a well-known teacher of survival skills, Guide to Wild Foods and Useful Plants is more than a listing of plant types—it teaches...
The Prepper's Guide to Foraging
How Wild Plants Can Supplement a Sustainable Lifestyle
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
The Prepper's Guide to Foraging is not a plant identification guide in the traditional sense. It is instead a guide to using plants to supplement other means of food production and subsistence living. Author David Nash believes that there is not enough land available for to support a large scale return...
by Robert Paine
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
Do you worry what would happen to your family in an emergency?
In a Survivalist or Doomsday scenario, you and your family still need to eat!
The Prepper’s Guide to Foraging is an excellent resource and foundational guide that covers many topics of foraging for food in a survival...
Together on Top of the World
The Remarkable Story of the First Couple to Climb the Fabled Seven Summits
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2007
On May 16, 2002, Phil and Susan Ershler reached the
top of Mt. Everest and became the first couple in history
to scale the fabled Seven Summits. What made
their achievement all the more remarkable was that Susan
was not a mountain climber, but a high-powered
Fortune ® 500 executive who had never...
by John Gierach
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
“After five decades, twenty books, and countless columns, [John Gierach] is still a master,” (Forbes) and his newest book only confirms this assessment, along with his recent induction into the Flyfishing Hall of Fame. In A Fly Rod of Your Own, Gierach brings his ever-sharp sense of humor and...
by Ballards
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2003
* Winner of the 2003 Barbara Savage Miles from Nowhere Award * A blend of romance, humor, and adventure on the Pacific Crest Trail* Written in "he said/she said" alternating chapters, this young couple each tell their own story
Lessons from Everest
Seven Powerful Steps to the Top of the World
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
After a devastating failed attempt to climb Mt. Everest in 2007 and a brief period of mourning, Dr. Tim Warren became focused on learning the lessons that had been revealed to him while hiking alone for three days down the Khumbu Valley of Nepal to heal his damaged lung tissue in the luxury of oxygen-rich...
Keep Climbing
How I Beat Cancer and Reached the Top of the World
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2007
The 29,035-foot giant known as Mount Everest tortures its challengers with life-threatening conditions such as 100 mph winds, the dramatic loss of oxygen, snowstorms, and deadly avalanches. Climbers of Everest are faced with incredible dangers, but for Sean Swarner the obstacles he overcame prior...