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  • Mountain Madness:

    Scott Fischer, Mount Everest, and a Life Lived on High

    by Robert Birkby ...
    “An extraordinary life.”—The New York Times Book Review“A fitting homage to one of the great outdoor extremists.”—Kirkus ReviewsLegendary climber Scott Fischer found in Mount Everest a perfect landscape for his fearless spirit. Scaling the world’s highest peak tested his skills, his courage, and his endurance. His legendary final expedition—and its tragic outcome—are portrayed in Everest, the 3-D ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Flakes, Jugs, and Splitters

    A Rock Climber's Guide to Geology

    by Sarah Garlick ...
    Series series How To Climb Series
    Rock climbers have an inherent interest in geology. For some, it's about knowing what gear to use or how to avoid rotten bands of rock. For others, it's about finding the next hot-spot boulder field, or understanding why their local crag exists. For most of them, curiosity about rocks comes as naturally as their desire to climb them. Geology is the fundamental control on the sport, and yet there ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Nature

    Nature, by Ralph Waldo Emerson is a fabulous philosophical interpretation of nature and how it influences man physically and spiritually. Emerson's writing is redolent with the wonder of the true romantic, but never sinks to the level of maudlin fluff. ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Jim Bridger "The Grand Old Man of the Rockies"

    Jim Bridger may be most famous for being, as a youth, one of the two mountain men who abandoned famed trapper Hugh Glass after he had been mauled by a grizzly bear. It was Hugh's thoughts of revenge for this abandonment that fueled his recovery and eventual tracking down of the young Bridger.James Bridger, known as Jim Bridger (1804 – 1881), was among the foremost mountain men, trappers, scouts ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • At the Mercy of the Mountains

    True Stories Of Survival And Tragedy In New York's Adirondacks

    by Peter Bronski ...
    In this compelling book, award-winning adventure writer and former Lower Adirondack Search and Rescue team member Peter Bronski chronicles true stories of survival and tragedy, from famous historical cases during the early 20th century, to modern tales of harrowing struggle in the mountains and wilderness. Extensively researched, these gripping tales pull together historical accounts, first-hand ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • On Mount Hood

    A Biography of Oregon's Perilous Peak

    by Jon Bell ...
    On Mount Hood is a contemporary, first-person narrative biography of Oregon's greatest mountain, featuring stories full of adventure and tragedy, history and geology, people and places, trivia and lore. The mountain itself helps create the notorious Oregon rains and deep alpine snows, and paved the way for snowboarding in the mid 1980s. Its forests provide some of the purest drinking water in the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • In the Shadow of the Carmens

    Afield with a Naturalist in the Northern Mexican Mountains

    Series series Grover E. Murray Studies in the American Southwest
    Just across the Rio Grande from West Texas in the state of Coahuila, México, the mountain ranges of the Maderas del Carmen rise majestically. Often called magical or mystical, they have stirred imagination for centuries. Stories of bandits, Indians, ghosts, incredible flora and fauna, cool forests, waterfalls, and vast woodlands filter across the Rio Grande.Many people have dreamed of exploring ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Alone at the Top

    Climbing Denali in the Dead of Winter

    What goes through your mind when you’re dropped alone in the middle of the Alaska Range, the cold and darkness surrounding you without another human being for miles? Arctic explorer Lonnie Dupre had made a career out of working in teams to survive in extreme conditions and places most humans wouldn't dare to tread. But shortly after Dupre found himself alone after a twenty-year marriage, he ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Natural History of a City Creek Canyon Year

    by Kurt Fisher ...
    A daily journal of natural observations for one year with essays about a canyon's history and recent scientific research about species and geology observed. City Creek Canyon is located in Salt Lake City, Utah.This book seeks to answer two questions: Can Henry David Thoreau's experience be replicated in modern urbanized America, and if so, how would that experience change one? Would it set you ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Patagonian Sublime

    The Green Economy and Post-Neoliberal Politics

    The Patagonian Sublime provides a vivid, accessible, and cutting-edge investigation of the green economy and New Left politics in Argentina. Based on extensive field research in Glaciers National Park and the mountain village of El Chaltén, Marcos Mendoza deftly examines the diverse social worlds of alpine mountaineers, adventure trekkers, tourism entrepreneurs, seasonal laborers, park rangers, ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • The Wolverine Way

    Glutton, demon of destruction, symbol of slaughter, mightiest of wilderness villains… The wolverine comes marked with a reputation based on myth and fancy. Yet this enigmatic animal is more complex than the legends that surround it. With a shrinking wilderness and global warming, the future of the wolverine is uncertain. The Wolverine Way reveals the natural history of this species and the forces ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Yosemite

    by John Muir ...
    In this classic text, the great American naturalist John Muir describes the Yosemite valley's geography and the myriad types of trees, flowers, birds, and other animals that can be found there. ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Killing of Wolf Number Ten

    The True Story

    A killer. A manhunt. The triumph of justice and of the wolf.The greatest event in Yellowstone history.Greater Yellowstone was the last great truly intact ecosystem in the temperate zones of the earth-until, in the 1920s, U.S. government agents exterminated its top predator, the gray wolf. With traps and rifles, even torching pups in their dens, the killing campaign was entirely successful. The ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Mountain House

    Studies in Elevated Design

    A photographic study of more than twenty houses and the mountain landscapes, from alpine forests to urban peaks, that embrace them.Spanning continents and climates, the twenty homes presented in interior designer Nina Freudenberger’s latest book challenge and expand the idea of what a mountain house might be. Artist retreats in Morocco’s High Atlas and the snowy folds of the Engadine Valley in ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Common Wild Flowers of Table Mountain & Silvermine

    by Hugh Clarke ...
    Common Wild Flowers of Table Mountain has proved to be a valuable guide for flower-lovers, hikers and mountain climbers who wish to know more about the flowers they encounter on their outings. Now expanded to take in the expansive Silvermine reserve, and generally updated for the entire area, this new edition will appeal to an even wider market. It offers • Flowers grouped according to colour to ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Wild Fell

    Fighting for nature on a Lake District hill farm

    by Lee Schofield ...
    'I found myself turning the pages with an inward leap of joy' - Isabella Tree*WINNER of the Richard Jefferies Award for Nature Writing**Shortlisted for the James Cropper Wainwright Prize for Conservation*'Exquisite' GUARDIANIt was a tragic day for the nation's wildlife when England's last and loneliest golden eagle died in an unmarked spot among the remote eastern fells of the Lake District. ... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • A Naturalist's Guide to the Southern Blue Ridge Front

    Linville Gorge, North Carolina, to Tallulah Gorge, Georgia

    by L. L. Gaddy ...
    A comprehensive handbook to top southeastern nature sitesFor hikers, climbers, naturalists, botanists, zoologists, wildflower enthusiasts, waterfall watchers, and all who enjoy exploring the outdoors, this field guide offers detailed descriptions of more than fifty natural areas in the "gorge" region of the Blue Ridge province. Veteran naturalist L. L. Gaddy, Jr., shares his extensive knowledge of ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Forest and Crag

    A History of Hiking, Trail Blazing, and Adventure in the Northeast Mountains, Thirtieth Anniversary Edition

    Series series Excelsior Editions
    Thirty years after its initial publication, this beloved classic is back in print. Superbly researched and written, Forest and Crag is the definitive history of our love affair with the mountains of the Northeastern United States, from the Catskills and the Adirondacks of New York to the Green Mountains of Vermont, the White Mountains of New Hampshire, and the mountains of Maine. It's all here in ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • The Quest of the Fish-Dog Skin (1913)ov

    J. W. Schultz (1859–1947) was an author, explorer, and historian known for his historical writings of the Blackfoot Indians in the late 1800s, when he lived among them as a fur trader. In 1907, Schultz published My Life as an Indian, the first of many future writings about the Blackfeet that he would produce over the next thirty years. Schultz lived in Browning, Montana.Originally published in ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Yosemite Books of John Muir

    by John Muir ...
    In 'The Yosemite Books of John Muir,' readers are given the profound opportunity to journey through Muir's enraptured perspective on the splendors of Yosemite National Park. With articulate expressions that border on the poetic, Muir guides us through the park's majestic valleys, over its towering mountains, and into the heart of its ancient forests. His literary style carries the reader with a ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • My First Summer In The Sierra

    by John Muir ...
    From the photographer who brought Thoreau's Walden and Cape Cod to life comes a new work combining classic literature with brand-new photography. This time, Scot Miller takes on the seminal work of John Muir, My First Summer in the Sierra. The book details Muir's first extended trip to the Sierra Nevada in what is now Yosemite National Park, a landscape that entranced him immediately and had a ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Touching the Wild

    Living with the Mule Deer of Deadman Gulch

    by Joe Hutto ...
    In Illumination in the Flatwoods, Joe Hutto unveiled the secret lives of wild turkeys to great critical acclaim, which resulted in the Emmy Awardwinning PSB documentary My Life as a Turkey. Now Hutto has done it again. Touching the Wild is the enchanting story about one man who has lived with a herd of mule deer in the Rockies for almost seven years.Due to the intense curiosity of one ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Winter Wise

    Travel and Survival in Ice and Snow

    by Monty Alford ...
    A man who has spent his professional life measuring the flow of northern rivers, climbed Alaska’s Mount McKinley, was a member of both Yale University and Maine University’s scientific expeditions to the Antarctic, guided a film crew documenting the late Robert Kennedy’s ascent of Mount Kennedy, and crossed the St. Elias mountain range is certainly no stranger to the cold! In Winter Wise, Monty ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Neverending Treasures of Yosemite (Illustrated Edition)

    by John Muir ...
    In 1903 Muir took one of the most significant camping trips with, then president, Theodore Roosevelt. This trip persuaded Roosevelt to return "Yosemite Valley and Mariposa Grove to federal protection as part of Yosemite National Park". Yosemite National Park is spanning across the eastern portions of Tuolumne, Mariposa and Madera and counties in the central eastern portion of the U.S. state of ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus