Outdoor category: 2147 books
Lipsmackin' Vegetarian Backpackin'
Lightweight, Trail-Tested Vegetarian Recipes for Backcountry Trips
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Tired of power bars, half-cooked quick rice, and endless trail recipes featuring dehydrated chicken by-products? Try meat-free dishes like Flyin' Brian's Triple Crown Curry Couscous, Springer Mountain Pesto, and Time-Traveler's Tamales instead.
The sequel to the top-selling Lipsmackin' Backpackin',...
Black & Decker The Complete Guide to Contemporary Sheds
Complete plans for 12 Sheds, Including Garden Outbuilding, Storage Lean-to, Playhouse, Woodland Cott
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2008
A modern guide to classic outdoor structures.
Sheds and other landscape shelters have never been out of style, but they are now seeing a remarkable surge in popularity, and are being used in creative new ways. The common garden shed is now just as likely to serve as a workshop for an artist...
The Lost Art of Reading Nature's Signs
Use Outdoor Clues to Find Your Way, Predict the Weather, Locate Water, Track Animals—and Other Forgotten Skills
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2015
Turn Every Walk into a Game of Detection
When writer and navigator Tristan Gooley journeys outside, he sees a natural world filled with clues. The roots of a tree indicate the sun’s direction; the Big Dipper tells the time; a passing butterfly hints at the weather; a sand dune reveals prevailing...
by Jason Stevenson
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
A guide so thorough it will send you packing...
Backpacking remains one of the most popular, and inexpensive, outdoor activities in America. The Complete Idiot's Guide (r) to Backpacking and Hiking helps anyone prepare and plan for a rewarding adventure. Covers planning, training, shopping and packing...
Survive!
Essential Skills and Tactics to Get You Out of Anywhere - Alive
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
From the creator of the hit show Survivorman, the classic guide to surviving in the wild
From the sun-scorched sands of the Kalahari to the snake-infested jungles of the Amazon, Les Stroud has made a life of surviving in the harshest—and most remote—regions on Earth.
Now, the creator,...
Primitive Skills and Crafts
An Outdoorsman's Guide to Shelters, Tools, Weapons, Tracking, Survival, and More
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2007
Anyone eager to master survival skills for outdoor vacations, or simply to find a fun new family activity for a Saturday afternoon, will be educated and inspired by the practical advice presented here by archaeologists, anthropologists, primitive practitioners, craftsmen, and artisans. These experts...
How to Stay Alive
The Ultimate Survival Guide for Any Situation
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
The ultimate survival guide from Bear Brylls, former Special Forces soldier and #1 world-renowned "King of Survival" (Outside)
For more than a decade, Bear Grylls has introduced TV viewers to the most dramatic wilderness survival situations, through his hit shows such as Man Vs. Wild....
Wilderness Navigation
Finding Your Way Using Map, Compass, Altimeter & GPS, 3rd Edition
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
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• The official navigation textbook used in outdoor education courses by thousands of students
• Goodreads.com readers rated the previous edition 4 out of 5 stars (and now it’s even better!)
• Map and compass skills remain the foundation for traveling...
A Fly Fisher's Sixty Seasons
True Tales of Angling Adventures
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Witty and heartfelt, Sixty Seasons looks back over more than half a century of fly fishing and writing about fly fishing. Steve Raymond returns with an informative and delightful collection of memories, stretching over his sixty seasons spent fishing.
Raymond takes the opportunity to write passionately...
by Eric Chandler
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Outside Duluth will take you on an armchair tour of one of the best regions for outdoor fun in the US. Join Eric Chandler as he takes you cross country skiing, biking, paddling, and running with his family near the head of Lake Superior. Chandler's stories are part essay, part guidebook and all fun....
Look Big
And Other Tips for Surviving Animal Encounters of All Kinds
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
A humorous and helpful illustrated field guide to avoiding interactions--both dangerous and annoying--with 50 wild animals, including survival techniques, wildlife etiquette, and other essential advice.
As humans encroach on wild places, encounters with animals--from bears, bison, mountain...
The Cabin
A Search for Personal Sanctuary
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2005
One hundred years ago, a young doctor from Cleveland by the name of Robert Newcomb, travelled north to a place called Temagami. It was as far north as one could travel by any modern means. Beautiful beyond any simple expletive, the Temagami wilderness was a land rich in timber, clear-water lakes,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2010
Follow the trails of hunters—the original storytellers—as they interpret signs, examine tracks, and chase and catch their prey (or fail to). Readers can curl up with the best authentic hunting fiction and non-fiction, bringing the great Mount Kenya and the prairies of the American Bison into your...
The Hunting and Fishing Camp Builder's Guide
A Complete Guide to Building Your Own Outdoor Lodge
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
There cannot be a hunter and angler who has not, at some time or other, daydreamed about building his or her own camp. Hunting & Fishing Camp Builder’s Guide provides the concepts, plans, and know-how to turn a daydream into a reality. Monte Burch applies decades of how-to skills to describe the...