outdoor life

An illustrated handbook for outdoor learning with children, providing instructions for useful and creative projects using materials collected in nature.

A collection of humorous anecdotes, most of which are true, about outdoor life, with an emphasis on fishing and hunting.

For a rugged outdoor man and his family, life in northern Minnesota is a wild experience involving wolves, deer, and the sled dogs that make their way of life possible. Includes an account of the author's first Iditarod, a dogsled race across Alaska.

Presents biographical and career sketches of ten successful professionals working in fields related to the outdoors; following each individual through a typical work day, providing advice on career planning, and including tips for landing a job.

Presents short stories in which adventurers find themselves on the brink of death from hypothermia, drowning, mountain sickness, avalanche, scurvy, heatstroke, falling, predators, the bends, cerebral malaria, and dehydration.

Discusses such animal- and nature-related careers as animal trainer, arborist, land surveyor, and zoologist, and discusses how to determine which career might be suitable and how to prepare for it.

This guide to the outdoors provides advice and instructions on camping, building shelters, finding water, and cooking outdoors. Some activities may require adult supervision.

Examines the lives of teens in rural North America, featuring descriptions of rodeos, horseback riding, hunting, and fishing, with stories of real-life teens who engage in these sports.

Forced to spend his summer vacation with relatives in Louisiana, twelve-year-old Mitch Valentine finds himself a candidate for the Cottonmouth Club when he and a group of local boys become involved in secretive outdoor activities.

The author recounts his seven months working for the Idaho Department of Fish and Game in an isolated location that changed him from a college kid to a man.