Outdoor category: 2147 books

This book will explain what items to carry in your Fishing and Trapping Survival Tin. It is so small and light weight, you should always have it with you.

Designed for both land and water use, this comprehensive guide helps unlock the complexity of map and chart reading as it relates to navigation. Beginning with detailed technical descriptions of the tools of navigation—a compass, an altimeter, a GPS system, and a sextant—this handbook shows how...

Wilderness medicine expert and Backpacker magazine columnist Buck Tilton covers every step needed for the best hiking and backpacking experience. From gear to gourmet trail food, from good hiking technique to dressing the part, from using map & compass to nibbling wild plants, this visually organized...

This is the second volume of "The 'Country Life' Library of Sport - Fishing", containing a wealth of timeless information for the modern angler. This Easy-to-digest and profusely-illustrated book contains chapters on everything from the classification of fish and equipment, to proper technique,...

No book has taught-or retaught-more serious fly tiers the basic skills of fly tying than Helen Shaw’s Fly-Tying. Shaw’s simple and logical prose throughout and more than 250 life-size tying sequences make the various processes easy to understand, follow, and apply. Readers of Fly-Tying...

Table of Contents Introduction Section - One Duck To hunt a duck you will need the following: Canada Goose Wild Rabbit Section - Two Understanding your Prey Fish Frogs Crayfish and Clams Section - Three Skinning and Dressing your Prey About the Author Bonus Content A Beginner’s Guide to Trapping Introduction Chapter...

The Orvis Guide to Beginning Wingshooting is required reading for anyone interested in picking up the sport or improving their shooting skills. Experienced shooter and teacher Tom Deck shares his tips, as well as insider tricks from the most successful wingshooters. The Orvis Company began...

Join award-winning author Bryce M. Towsley as he picks the brains of three of the most successful white-tailed deer hunters in America today-Larry, Lane, and Shane Benoit. In this comprehensive volume, Towsley hunts for the real reasons behind the Benoits’ unbelievable knack for taking trophy bucks. While...

The Gun Trader’s Guide is the standard reference for collectors, curators, dealers, shooters, and gun enthusiasts, and now is extending their influence to collectible knives. Focusing mainly on old and out of production knives, the Gun Trader’s Guide to Collectible Knives is the ideal gift for...

These small lobster-like crustaceans are found in fresh water and have been regarded as delicacies fit for only the royal palate since ages. Also known as crawfish and crawdads, crayfish are freshwater crustaceans which are close relatives of the larger, marine lobsters..... Scroll up... and click on "Buy Now" to deliver almost instantly to your Kobo or other reading device.

Written by an expert outfitter with boots in its waters, this piece includes a detailed map with access points along the river, information about gear, seasonal hatches, local lodges, fly shops, restaurants, watering holes, and closest medical care, along with the sort of intimate, insider information only someone working on the river can share. 

Nervous water has a meaning: while the fleeting crease or subtle wrinkle on the surface of a lake or stream could be nothing, wise anglers known that these small surface movements are nearly always signs of fish stirring below-as it is with the sport of fly fishing. With a reputation of tranquility...

"The Book of the Red Deer and Empire Big Game" contains a collection of articles written by various authors in the subject of deerstalking in England and Scotland. From detailed treatises on ancient stalking to contemporary speculation about its future, these fascinating vintage articles...

Expert instruction you need to take your skills from kook to boss Author John Robison uses hundreds of pictures-- comical, cartoon-like drawings--to clearly illustrate every aspect of surfing: wave dynamics, riding techniques, etiquette, logistics, and more. This entertaining, easy-to-understand...