4th Edition — Mountaineers Books, 2013. — 352 p. More than 100,000 copies of Wilderness Basics have been sold over the years, and this new edition will continue as a training staple for those wanting to build their outdoor skills. It is the text used in the San Diego Sierra Club chapter’s signature Wilderness Basics Course (WBC) and is written by chapter members. Updates to...
Dover Publications, 2006. — 304 p. Known to millions of Boy Scouts as "Uncle Dan," Daniel Beard was also a Progressive-era reformer, a naturalist, illustrator, and author. Among his many "how-to" books is this entertaining collection of camp lore and practical notes on woodcrafting. In "Camp-Lore and Woodcraft", Beard, an avid outdoorsman, provides youngsters and campers of all...
Dover Publications Inc., 2006. — 179 p. — ISBN10: 0486447278, ISBN13: 978-0486447278 Known to millions of Boy Scouts as "Uncle Dan," Daniel Beard was also a Progressive-era reformer, a naturalist, illustrator, and author. Among his many "how-to" books is this entertaining collection of camp lore and practical notes on woodcrafting. In Camp-Lore and Woodcraft , Beard, an avid...
Channel 4 Books, 2010. — 256 p. The complete guide to living in the wild from the ultimate survival expert. In this essential guide to living wild, Bear Grylls reveals the secrets of his years of fieldcraft experience. This is the information you really need to know about living in the field from the man who has passed 21 SAS selection, climbed Everest and survived in some of...
Falcon Guides, 2012. — 211 p. This book could save you hundreds of dollars on outdoor gear! Don't retire a jacket just because it's torn or buy a new tent because the zipper broke. Learn how to fix these problems?and dozens more?and save your money for a dream trip by following the step-by-step gear maintenance and repair instructions in this large trim, color handbook.
Skyhorse Publishing, 2017. — 368 p. Originally published in 1906, Horace Kephart’s Camping and Woodcraft: A Handbook for Vacation Campers and Travelers in the Woods stands over a century later as a classic in outdoors writing. Praised by Field & Stream as “an encyclopedia of living in the open,” it provides expertly detailed answers to hundreds of practical problems that arise...
Karamat Wilderness Ways, 2015. — 464 p. Basic Safe Travel and Boreal Survival Handbook was compiled for outdoor educators and the Junior Forest Warden movement mostly from articles originally published in "Wilderness Arts and Recreation Magazine" that had become out of print but much sought after. Some of the articles were the basis for Kochanski's "Bushcraft". A small fraction...
Weldon Owen, 2013. — 320 p. — ISBN13: 978-1616286101. The Total Outdoorsman Manual is the ultimate guidebook for the outdoors enthusiast, packed with hundreds of practical tips and techniques from T. Edward Nickens and the experts at Field & Stream magazine, that is guaranteed to improve your hunting, fishing, camping and survival skills. This special edition, issued for the...
Weldon Owen, 2013. — 320 p. — ISBN13: 978-1616286101. The Total Outdoorsman Manual is the ultimate guidebook for the outdoors enthusiast, packed with hundreds of practical tips and techniques from T. Edward Nickens and the experts at Field & Stream magazine, that is guaranteed to improve your hunting, fishing, camping and survival skills. This special edition, issued for the...
Weldon Owen, 2014. — 256 p. — (Field & Stream). — ISBN: 978-1616288075. What makes someone a total outdoorsman? It’s a mix of know-how, enthusiasm, experience and having the right tools. In this follow-up to the top-selling Total Outdoorsman Manual author T. Edward Nickens returns with another 300+ hints on how to get the most from your hunting, fishing, and camping trips...and...
Birmingham: Menasha Ridge Press, 2005. — 160 p. To build a fire, feel heat, smell smoke, hear snaps and groans, watch flames dance, and gaze into glowing coals is the ultimate outdoor comfort. A campfire gives warmth, sheds light, dries clothes, calms fears, and draws a day in the outdoors to a pleasant close. But when a campfire becomes a matter of life or death, there is no...
3rd Edition — Ragged mountain press, 2004. — 449 p. — ISBN: 0071423206. The most comprehensive guide to equipment and technique available anywhere. A clear and comprehensive primer on backpacking gear. Belongs in every bookcase dealing with outdoor topics Chockablock full of useful, practical, commonsense info. This enormously practical guide includes everything from essential...
2nd ed. — Cicerone, 2007. — 144 p. — ISBN: 978-1852845612. "The Book of the Bivvy" is a half-and-half mix of how to do it and why to do it (or how not to do it, and why not to do it). It presents accounts of bivvybag nights and expeditions, both nice and nasty, alternate with practical chapters about the technicalities of the breathable membrane, how little kit you really can...
Tracks Publishing, 1999. — 144 p. Aimed specifically at the novice outdoor adventurer, this comprehensive guide explains the essential gear, preparations, precautions, and techniques required for day hiking and short backpacking trips. Through informative, entertaining, and encouraging personal anecdotes, the guide emphasizes the physical, aesthetic, and spiritual benefits of...
Tracks Publishing, 1999. — 144 p. Aimed specifically at the novice outdoor adventurer, this comprehensive guide explains the essential gear, preparations, precautions, and techniques required for day hiking and short backpacking trips. Through informative, entertaining, and encouraging personal anecdotes, the guide emphasizes the physical, aesthetic, and spiritual benefits of...
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