Outdoors category: 5873 books
by R. F. Meysey-Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017
This vintage book contains a complete and beginner-friendly guide to hunting, with information on equipment, training hounds, riding, common pitfalls, etiquette, and much more. Intended for the use of beginners and based on the extensive experience of the author, this timeless guide is highly recommended...
by J. Nevill Fitt
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017
This vintage book, first published in 1879, contains a timeless guide to hunting. Based on the author's extensive experience hunting a variety of animals in many countries, this volume will be of considerable utility to modern hunting enthusiasts, and would make for a fantastic addition to collections...
Designed by Adventure: 30 Years of Outdoor Research
30 Years of Outdoor Research
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Thirty years ago a frustrated physicist from Seattle named Ron Gregg was retreating from an aborted attempt at a new alpine style route on Denali. His partner had been evacuated by helicopter, but Ron chose to ski back to the highway solo. In the process, Ron found a new direction in life. At that...
by John Long, Peter Croft
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
Traditional, or simply, trad climbing, is a do-it-yourself adventure requiring the climbing team to negotiate the climb and to carry, hand-place and remove most if not all components of the roped safety system. In The Trad Climber’s Bible, two of the most revered and respected trad climbers in the...
Sixty Years a Fisherman
The Autobiography of a Fishing Legend
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
Sixty Years A Fisherman is the long awaited and updated new edition of much-loved angler John Wilson's memoirs, an icon of the angling world! John reveals the real life story behind the camera lens of a man who was once a cruiseship hairstylist and who later became one of the most recognised TV personalities...
by Malcolm Law
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013
Malcolm Law is an ordinary man who took on an extraordinary goal. Many said it was impossible - even Mal himself doubted whether he would succeed. But he had a secret weapon: he carried a photo of his late brother, Alan. In November 2009, Mal set out to run New Zealand's seven mainland 'Great Walks'...
by John Perrier
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
Campervan Kama Sutra
Outback Australia, with a camper trailer, three kids and a dog.*
This true story tells of one family’s hilarious journey through Australia’s rugged outback countryside.
Our intrepid adventurers work their way through numerous mishaps, including, but not limited...
The Art of Stand Up Paddling
A Complete Guide to SUP on Lakes, Rivers, and Oceans
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
Stand up paddling (SUP) is experiencing fast growth in the United States and around the world. It can be enjoyed on inland lakes and rivers, as well as on the ocean and in the surf—but most important, it’s fun and a great way to stay fit.
The Art of Stand Up Paddling will include everything...
by Lisa Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
The Anderson's continue their adventures in Part 5: Off to the Land of Oz. They arrive unprepared in Perth, hire the biggest RV they could find, and drive off on the wrong side of the road in this humorous recount of how natural disasters can make even the best laid plans irrelevant. Sharks,...
by D.J. Smithers
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2015
There have been many authoritative books written on the Pennine Way but hardly any that put into detail the hardships and the humour endured along Britain's toughest long distance walk. This book hopes to redress this imbalance towards the plethora of guidebooks written by hardened fell walkers extolling...
Safari 101 Hunting Africa: The Ultimate Adventure: Getting There and Back
Getting There and Back
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Mbogo, the Black Death, which manifests itself in the African Cape buffalo, now stood less than 12 feet away from me. The cow and calf were too close for me to have time to be scared. I would only have time to react on instinct if they came closer. That is the type of excitement that every hunter...
Fatal Mountaineer
The High-Altitude Life and Death of Willi Unsoeld, American Himalayan Legend
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Willi Unsoeld became an international hero during the Kennedy years, when he emerged as probably the greatest American climber of the Himalayan golden age. Displaying the sort of vigor that President Kennedy so admired, Unsoeld became the most visible hero of an ascent of Everest's previously-unclimbed...
The Manaslu Adventure
Three hapless friends try to climb a big mountain
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
The mountain gods were protective of Manaslu, a two-pronged peak in the Nepal Himalaya, and one of the world’s fourteen 8,000m peaks.
Many years ago, a Japanese team tried to climb it, but the gods had sent an avalanche in their wake which destroyed a monastery and set the local people against...
A Bolt from the Blue
The Epic True Story of Danger, Daring, and Heroism at 13,000 Feet
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
FIVE INJURED CLIMBERS. TEN SEASONED RANGERS. ONE IMPOSSIBLE RESCUE.
On the afternoon of July 26, 2003, six vacationing mountain climbers ascended the peak of the Grand Teton in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Rain and colliding air currents blew in, and soon a massive electrical charge began to build....