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"From the award-winning author of National Parks of the USA, Kate Siber, this stunning book showcases an amazing adventure activity to try in every single state. 50 Adventures in the 50 States features gripping outdoors activities, vividly illustrated and described alongside fascinating facts about the nature and geography of each activity location - the very best the U.S.A. has to offer budding young adventurers!"--Provided by publisher.ho want to...
5) Before they're gone: a family's year-long quest to explore America's most endangered national parks
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"A longtime backpacker, climber, and skier, Michael Lanza knows our national parks like the back of his hand. As a father, he hopes to share these special places with his two young children. But he has seen firsthand the changes wrought by the warming climate and understands what lies ahead ... He takes his nine-year-old son, Nate, and seven-year-old daughter, Alex, on an ambitious journey to see as many climate-threatened wild places as he can fit...
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Just as Norman Maclean writes at the end of "A River Runs through It" that he is "haunted by waters," so have readers been haunted by his novella. A retired English professor who began writing fiction at the age of 70, Maclean produced what is now recognized as one of the classic American stories of the twentieth century. Originally published in 1976, A River Runs through It and Other Stories now celebrates its twenty-fifth anniversary, marked by...
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From trekking across the desert and bushwhacking through the jungle to conserving body heat in the Arctic and rappelling down a mountain cliff, The U.S. Army Survival Manual presents the field-tested techniques that have proven effective in times of imminent danger and extreme distress.
Perfect for Army grunts and weekend outdoorsmen alike, this book teaches the survival skills every camper, hiker and hunter should master before heading...
Perfect for Army grunts and weekend outdoorsmen alike, this book teaches the survival skills every camper, hiker and hunter should master before heading...
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Covering Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Southern Labrador and Cape Breton Island, this travel guide to the Atlantic Provinces is the most comprehensive on the market. It takes in everything, from the Fundy Coast and the Acadian Peninsula to the fjords of Gros Morne and Lord Baltimore's Lost Colony. Hiking, trout and salmon fishing, skiing, snowmobiling, cycling, kayaking, exploring, puffin spotting � discover
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Draws from the recollections of climbing guide Anatoli Boukreev and other survivors to tell the story of the worst disaster in the history of Mount Everest which occurred on May 10, 1996, when twenty-three climbers from two commercial expeditions were caught in a killing storm while attempting to reach their high-altitude base camp.
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