outdoor life

Describes 408 skills essential to hunting, fishing, camping, and surviving in the outdoors, offering advice on such tasks as pitching camp, rainproofing tents, siponing gas, splitting logs, throwing a knife, fishing a bream bed, tying a rapala knot, trolling, paddling a canoe into a gale, facing a duck blind in the right direction, tanning a deer hide, tracking an elk, building a fire in the rain, making a blowgun, skinning and cooking a snake, and more.

With practical advice for survival situations from the relatively likely (such as needing to build a fire in the rain) to the extreme (skin and cook a snake) to the just plain awesome (make a blowgun), this book could save your life, as well as providing a fascinating armchair read. Geared to the hunter or fisherman, but with something for almost everyone who loves the great outdoors, this is the book you want to be sure you throw in your backpack before heading out into any potentially sketchy situation.

Presents over thirty true stories of outdoor adventure from the pages of "Outside" magazine, including selections by Jon Krakauer, Bill McKibben, Tim Cahill, Sara Corbett, and others.

Offers crackerbarrel wisdom and zany insights into the agonies and ecstasies of fishing, hunting, and camping.

Collection of stories and essays capturing the mood, seasons, and colorful characters of the North Country.

A collection of essays recalling the author's years of homesteading in the Alaskan wilderness.

A collection of articles about the outdoors by an American humorist.

Presents sixteen stories by such authors as H. G. Wells, Paul Bowles, and David B. Silva featuring ghosts and other scary creatures.

Presents cover reproductions, photographs, and illustrations from throughout one hundred years of "Outdoor Life" magazine, grouped by decade, beginning in 1898, each with an opening essay.