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Browse through our selection of the 50 best selling books about a wide range of outdoors sports topics. Click on any title for further information or to place an order.
| 1. | Mind
of the Raven : Investigations and Adventures With
Wolf-Birds by Bernd Heinrich | ||
| Usually ships in 24 hours Cliff Street Books Hardcover - 380 pages (April 1999) |
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| 2. | Pilgrim
at Tinker Creek (Perennial Classics) by Annie Dillard | ||
| Usually ships in 24 hours Harperperennial Library Paperback - 288 pages Reprint edition (November 1998) |
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| 3. | A
Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold, et al | ||
| Usually ships in 24 hours Ballantine Books (Mm) Mass Market Paperback - 295 pages Reissue edition (April 1991) |
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| Amazon.com Published in 1949, shortly after the author's death, A Sand County Almanac is a classic of nature writing, widely cited as one of the most influential nature books ever published. Writing from the vantage of his summer shack along the banks of the Wisconsin River, Leopold mixes essay, polemic, and... Read more | |||
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| 4. | Young
Men & Fire by Norman MacLean | ||
| Usually ships in 24 hours Univ of Chicago Pr (Trd) Paperback - 301 pages Reissue edition (October 1993) |
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| A work that consumed 14 years of Maclean's life, and earned a 1992 National Book Critics Circle Award, Young Men and Fire tells the story of a Rocky Mountain forest fire that that claimed the lives of 13 young smoke jumpers on August 5, 1949, at Mann Gulch, Montana. The firefighters perished in a... Read more | |||
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| 5. | Desert
Solitaire by Edward Abbey | ||
| Usually ships in 24 hours Ballantine Books (Mm) Mass Market Paperback - 337 pages Reissue edition (April 1991) |
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| Amazon.com With language as colorful as a Canyonlands sunset and a perspective as pointed as a prickly pear, Cactus Ed captures the heat, mystery, and surprising bounty of desert life. Desert Solitaire is a meditation on the stark landscapes of the red-rock West, a passionate vote for wilderness, and a howling... Read more | |||
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| 6. | A
Natural History of the Senses by Diane Ackerman | ||
| Usually ships in 24 hours Vintage Books Paperback - 331 pages Reprint edition (September 1991) |
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| Amazon.com "One of the real tests of writers," notes Ackerman in this liveliest of nature books, "is how well they write about smells. If they can't describe the scent of sanctity in a church, can you trust them to describe the suburbs of the heart?" Ackerman passes the test, writing with... Read more | |||
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| 7. | Throwim
Way Leg : Tree-Kangaroos, Possums, and Penis Gourds-On the Track of
Unknown Mammals in Wildest New Guinea by Tim F. Flannery | ||
| Usually ships in 24 hours Atlantic Monthly Pr Hardcover - 336 pages (December 1998) |
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| Amazon.com In Throwim Way Leg, Australia-based mammologist-raconteur Tim Flannery recalls scientific expeditions in the wilds of New Guinea that convey both the thrill of discovery and the negotiations necessary to bridge huge clashes of cultures. A world expert on New Guinea's fauna, Flannery has discovered... Read more | |||
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| 8. | The
Snow Leopard (Penguin Nature Classics) by Peter Matthiessen, Edward Hoagland (Editor) | ||
| Usually ships in 24 hours Penguin USA (paper) Paperback Reprint edition (June 1996) |
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| Amazon.com In the autumn of 1973, the writer Peter Matthiessen set out in the company of zoologist George Schaller on a hike that would take them 250 miles into the heart of the Himalayan region of Dolpo, "the last enclave of pure Tibetan culture on earth." Their voyage was in quest of one of the world's most... Read more | |||
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| 9. | Wild
Fruits : Thoreau's Rediscovered Last Manuscript by Henry David Thoreau, et al | ||
| Usually ships in 24 hours W W Norton & Co Hardcover - 409 pages (November 1999) |
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| Amazon.com Henry David Thoreau was 44 years old when he died of tuberculosis in the early spring of 1862. He had acquired a measure of notoriety in his lifetime largely for his fervent support of abolitionism and his refusal to pay taxes to support the American war of conquest against Mexico, the subject of... Read more | |||
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| 10. | Walden by Henry David Thoreau, et al | ||
| Usually ships in 24 hours Princeton Univ Pr Paperback Reprint edition (May 1989) |
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| From Horn
Book Excerpts from the author's work, illustrated by dark, handsome linoleum-cut prints, furnish a simple introduction to a seminal work. -- Copyright © 1991 The Horn Book, Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Read more | |||
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| 11. | The
Outermost House : A Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape
Cod by Henry Beston | ||
| Usually ships in 24 hours Henry Holt (Paper) Paperback - 218 pages Reprint edition (June 1992) |
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| Book Description
Nonfiction Large Print Edition Written with simplicity, sympathy, and beauty. New York Herald Tribune In what is considered to be a classic of American nature writing, The Outermost House chronicles a solitary year spent on a Cape Cod beach. Though Henry Beston had planned to spend only two weeks... Read more | |||
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| 12. | The
Spell of the Sensuous : Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human
World by David Abram | ||
| Usually ships in 24 hours Vintage Books Paperback - 326 pages (March 1997) |
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| Amazon.com David Abram's writing casts a spell of its own as he weaves the reader through a meticulously researched work that gently addresses such seemingly daunting topics as where the past and future exist, the relationship between space and time, and how the written word serves to sever humans from their... Read more | |||
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| 13. | Red-Tails
in Love : A Wildlife Drama in Central Park by Marie Winn | ||
| Usually ships in 24 hours Vintage Books Paperback - 317 pages (April 1999) |
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| Amazon.com Nature perseveres in the strangest places, even smack-dab in the middle of Manhattan. Marie Winn, a Wall Street Journal columnist, chronicles the inspiring tale of a pair of red-tailed hawks that take up residence in the posh Fifth-Avenue neighborhood bordering Central Park, home to such celebrities... Read more | |||
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| 14. | Never
Cry Wolf by Farley Mowat(Preface) | ||
| Usually ships in 24 hours Bantam Books Paperback - 164 pages Reissue edition (November 1, 1983) |
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| Synopsis A gripping narrative of a conservationist's life among the wolves in the middle of the artic prairie. Read more | |||
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| 15. | Coming
into the Country by John McPhee | ||
| Usually ships in 24 hours Noonday Pr Paperback Reissue edition (April 1991) |
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| Residents of the Lower 48 sometimes imagine Alaska as a snow-covered land of igloos, oil pipelines, and polar bears. But Alaska is far more complex geographically, culturally, ecologically, and politically than most Americans know, and few writers are as capable of capturing this complexity as John... Read more | |||
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| 16. | Refuge
: An Unnatural History of Family and Place by Terry Tempest Williams | ||
| Usually ships in 24 hours Vintage Books Paperback - 304 pages Reprint edition (September 1992) |
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| Amazon.com The only constants in nature are change and death. Terry Tempest Williams, a naturalist and writer from northern Utah, has seen her share of both. The pages of Refuge resound with the deaths of her mother and grandmother and other women from cancer, the result of the American government's ongoing... Read more | |||
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| 17. | Kinship
With All Life by J. Allen Boone | ||
| Usually ships in 24 hours Harper San Francisco Paperback - 160 pages (June 1976) |
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| Synopsis Is there a universal language of love, a "kinship with all life" that can open new horizons of experience? This intriguing book documents simple, real-life experiences that show how animals communicate with each other and with people. Read more | |||
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| 18. | The
Sense of Wonder by Rachel Carson, et al | ||
| Usually ships in 24 hours Harpercollins Hardcover - 96 pages Reprint edition (May 1998) |
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| Amazon.com Not long before she died in 1964, the noted environmental writer Rachel Carson wrote an essay for Woman's Home Companion magazine called "Helping Your Child to Wonder." In that essay--reprinted here, with photographs of natural subjects by Nick Kelsh--Carson urged parents to take their... Read more | |||
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| 19. | The
Complete Angler : A Connecticut Yankee Follows in the Footsteps of
Walton by James Prosek | ||
| Usually ships in 24 hours Harpercollins Hardcover - 336 pages 1 Ed edition (May 1999) |
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| Amazon.com Prosek has commandeered a unique branch for himself in the long stream of fishing literature. With Trout: An Illustrated History and Joe and Me, he's reeled in the reputation of a modern-day Audubon with a keen eye that translates experience into both words and watercolors. In The Complete Angler,... Read more | |||
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| 20. | Modoc
: The True Story of the Greatest Elephant That Ever
Lived by Ralph Helfer | ||
| Usually ships in 24 hours Harperperennial Library Paperback - 325 pages (October 1998) |
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| Amazon.com Modoc is the joint biography of a man and an elephant born in a small German circus town on the same day in 1896. Bram was the son of an elephant trainer, Modoc the daughter of his prize performer. The boy and animal grew up devoted to each other. When the Wunderzircus was sold to an American, with... Read more | |||
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| 21. | Waiting
for Aphrodite : Journeys into the Time Before
Bones by Sue Hubbell, Liddy Hubbell (Illustrator) | ||
| Usually ships in 24 hours Houghton Mifflin Co (Trd) Hardcover - 242 pages (April 1999) |
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| Amazon.com When Sue Hubbell moved from her longtime home on a farm in Missouri to a house perched on the rocky coast of Maine, the first thing she did was investigate the living things in her new environment to ease the loneliness of a new place. She peered under rocks, in dark crevices, and beneath mounds of... Read more | |||
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| 22. | The
Self-Made Tapestry : Pattern Formation in Nature by Philip Ball | ||
| Usually ships in 24 hours Oxford Univ Pr (Trade) Hardcover - 248 pages (December 1998) |
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| Amazon.com Seashells are often spirals, just like water going down the drain. There must be a connection, right? Our intuition scoffs at such a notion, but maybe they are related, writes Nature editor Philip Ball in The Self-Made Tapestry: Pattern Formation in Nature. This deep, beautiful exploration of the... Read more | |||
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| 23. | Teaching
a Stone to Talk : Expeditions and Encounters by Annie Dillard | ||
| Usually ships in 24 hours HarperCollins (paper) Paperback - 176 pages Revised edition (July 1999) |
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| -- Edward Abbey, Chicago
Sun-Times
"This little book is haloed and informed throughout by Dillard's distinctive passion and intensity, a sort of intellectual radiance that reminds me both Thoreau and Emily Dickinson." Read more | |||
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| 24. | Young
Men & Fire by Norman MacLean | ||
| Usually ships in 24 hours Univ of Chicago Pr (Trd) Hardcover - 301 pages (September 1992) |
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| Amazon.com On August 5, 1949, lightning came crashing down in the vast spruce forest above Seeley Lake, Montana, and touched off a roaring blaze. As every Westerner knows, lightning means fire, but the fire that raged through Mann Gulch that day was huge--the sort that occurs only every few decades. A battery... Read more | |||
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| 25. | Arctic
Dreams : Imagination and Desire in a Northern
Landscape by Barry Lopez | ||
| Usually ships in 24 hours Bantam Books Paperback Reprint edition (July 1996) |
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| Amazon.com Based on 15 extended trips to the Canadian far north over a five-year period, Arctic Dreams celebrates the mysteries of what documentarians fondly call "last frontiers." Such places are everywhere in danger of destruction in the interest of ever-elusive economic progress, but Lopez writes... Read more | |||
