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Animal Tracking Basics
(more) »rank: 175350by: Jon Young, Tiffany Morgan
: :Tracking wildlife successfully requires more than just looking for trails and scat. It requires an awareness of how an animal behaves in its environment - how it finds food, travels, and rests. A tracker must know how to find and interpret behavioural clues animals leave behind. This how-to book teaches the basics of being a successful tracker - explaining what to look for to find or identify an animal and how to develop an essential environmental awareness. It also describes ageing tracks and sign, understanding ecology and mapping, keeping field notes, using track tools, and making casts.
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60 Hikes Within 60 Miles: Chicago: Including Aurora, Northwest Indiana, and Waukegan (60 Hikes within 60 Miles)
(more) »rank: 140760by: Ted Villaire
: :Focusing on the Chicago area’s urban and rural areas and everything in between, this book features classic hikes at such lovely spots as Starved Rock State Park, as well as gems like the LaSalle Fish and Wildlife Area in northwestern Indiana. Extensive key-at-a-glance information makes it a snap to choose a hike based on length, difficulty, and scenery. Helpful lists highlight the best hikes for children, for wildlife viewing, and other categories. This edition includes five new hikes.
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The Outdoor Survival Handbook: A Guide To The Resources & Material Available In The Wild & How To Use Them For Food, Shelter, Warmth, & Navigation
(more) »rank: 319049by: Raymond Mears
: :Whether you are a novice hiker or camper, or a more experienced outdoorsperson who spend weeks or months in the wilderness The Outdoor Survival Handbook will help you make the most of your adventures in the great outdoors. Suvival-skills expert Raymond Mears delivers dependable, thorough, and easy-to-understand advice on every aspet of outdoor survival, season by season. The essential everyday skills you'll learn include how to:construct a warm, waterproof shelter at any time of the yearbuild a good fire in all kinds of weathergather, prepare, and cook wild foods for tasty and nutritional mealsidentify medicinal herbscollect and purify watertrack and ...
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Walking and Eating in Tuscany and Umbria
(more) »rank: 2314096by: James Lasdun
: :Taking readers on a series of walks that not only go deep into the classic landscape of vineyards, olive groves, forests and mountains, but also through hill towns, villages and other cultural centers, this book offers 40 itineraries--from half-day to full-day walks to routes stretching over several days. Photos throughout. Review:Tuscany and Umbria are famous for both their glorious scenery and their superlative cuisines--could there be a more perfect vacation than walking through the countryside, stopping to dine along the way? In Walking and Eating in Tuscany and Umbria authors James Lasdun and Pia Davis offer readers 40 itineraries ...
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NOLS Cookery (National Outdoor Leadership School) (National Outdoor Leadership School)
(more) »rank: 157269from: Stackpole Books
: :Wilderness chefs looking to make their meals more nutritious and appealing need look no further than this newest edition of NOLS Cookery, the National Outdoor Leadership School's classic guide to backcountry cooking. From Cowboy Coffee to Darn Tootin' Black Beans to Scrambled Brownies, the book's recipes and culinary advice are guaranteed to please the palate and provide the energy needed for strenuous outdoor activity. Extensive revisions based on up-to-date research have been made to the nutrition section, and nutrient analyses are provided for all recipes. Additional sections cover fire preparation, cooking technique, and ration planning.
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The Sierra High Route: Traversing Timberline Country
(more) »rank: 149659by: Steve Roper
: :Wilderness chefs looking to make their meals more nutritious and appealing need look no further than this newest edition of NOLS Cookery, the National Outdoor Leadership School's classic guide to backcountry cooking. From Cowboy Coffee to Darn Tootin' Black Beans to Scrambled Brownies, the book's recipes and culinary advice are guaranteed to please the palate and provide the energy needed for strenuous outdoor activity. Extensive revisions based on up-to-date research have been made to the nutrition section, and nutrient analyses are provided for all recipes. Additional sections cover fire preparation, cooking technique, and ration planning.
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Best Hikes With Children In Colorado (Best Hikes With Children)
(more) »rank: 221549by: Maureen Keilty
: :Short hikes for short legs (and those still young at heart) in Colorado. *86 hikes chosen for kid appeal *Trails accessible from Denver, Boulder, Colorado Springs, Vail, Aspen, and Crested Butte *New 'Great Getaways' chart of Colorado's 18 best family fun destinations for hiking, camping, swimming, and more Lichen Loop, Piedra River Trail, Baby Bathtubs Trail: these are just a few of the new hikes families will enjoy together in the completely updated edition of this popular guide. Hikes range from 1 to 8 miles in length, with optional turn around points for tired feet. They feature 'environmental close-ups' to ...
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Knots (Pocket Guide Series)
(more) »rank: 316490by: Richard Hopkins
: :Knots are needed to tie up parcels and hitch a horse, and for camping, fishing, climbing, and sailing. Featuring easy-to-follow guides to over 100 knots, each illustrated with specially commissioned photographs, Knots teaches everything from the basics to more unfamiliar knots. Each section looks at specialty equipment and their related knots and gives a glossary of terms with pointers on how best to tie each one. Over 700 color illustrations are included.
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The Best Hikes of Pisgah National Forest
(more) »rank: 112965by: C. Franklin, III Goldsmith, Shannon E. G. Hamrick, H. James, Jr. Hamrick
: :Knots are needed to tie up parcels and hitch a horse, and for camping, fishing, climbing, and sailing. Featuring easy-to-follow guides to over 100 knots, each illustrated with specially commissioned photographs, Knots teaches everything from the basics to more unfamiliar knots. Each section looks at specialty equipment and their related knots and gives a glossary of terms with pointers on how best to tie each one. Over 700 color illustrations are included.
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Hiking Great Smoky Mountains National Park (Regional Hiking Series)
(more) »rank: 123728by: Kevin Adams
: :This guide features 82 hikes within Great Smoky Mountains National Park. With over 800 miles of maintained trails within the park, author Kevin Adams guides hikers through the rugged landscape and dense vegetation of the Great Smokies so they can have an intimate experience and see everything they would want to see, right from an official trail. Clear and concise trail descriptions and brilliant photography will make this guide a requirement when heading into the backcountry of America's most visited national park.
