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50 Hikes in Kentucky: From the Appalachian Mountains to the Land Between the Lakes

Explore Kentucky's extensive, diverse, and often overlooked network of trails.Hikers in Kentucky will find a stunning array of natural rock arches, rushing rivers, spring wildflowers, and even a recently reintroduced herd of elk. Within the 670,000-acre...

Hikernut's Canyon Lands Companion: A Guide to the Best Canyon Hikes in the American Southwest

To hike and explore the southwest canyon country is to experience a world unlike any other, and award-winning author Brian Lane places his nearly twenty years experience hiking throughout this area to good use in detailing day hikes and backpacking...

Explorer's Guide 50 Hikes in Utah

Lace up your boots, grab this guide, and explore the great outdoors!For first-time visitors and longtime residents alike, here is Utah's ultimate day-hike companion. Experience the fullness of Utah's magnificent outdoors, on hikes designed to be...

The Pacific Crest Trail: A Hiker's Companion

This book begins where basic trail guides and maps leave off. For each section of the trail, the authors describe the route in detail and recommend the best day hikes and short backpacks from each trailhead. They describe the plants and animals hikers...

Preserving Everything: Can, Culture, Pickle, Freeze, Ferment, Dehydrate, Salt, Smoke, and Store Fruits, Vegetables, Meat, Milk, and More

The ultimate guide to putting up food.How many ways can you preserve a strawberry? You can freeze it, dry it, pickle it, or can it. Milk gets cultured, or fermented, and is preserved as cheese or yogurt. Fish can be smoked, salted, dehydrated, and...

Jerky Everything: Foolproof and Flavorful Recipes for Beef, Pork, Poultry, Game, Fish, Fruit, and Even Vegetables

Try a variety of tasty jerky treats made with meat, veggies, tofu, and more!Jerky has been a vital source of sustenance for centuries. But what started out as an important food for travelers and a way to safely preserve meat in the days before...

Oregon Coast Memories

A beautiful photo essay of the majestic purples of the Oregon coast, the perfect memento for any visitor to this unforgettable place. . When your own photographs of the gorgeous places you visit can't quite match what you have seen-a breathtaking...

A Short Bright Flash: Augustina Fresnel and the Birth of the Modern Lighthouse

How a scientific outsider came up with a revolutionary theory of light and saved untold numbers of lives. . Augustin Fresnel (1788–1827) shocked the scientific elite with his view of the physics of light. The lens he invented was a feat of engineering...

Celestial Navigation

Devoted to the practical and presented so even the most non-mathematical navigator can develop skill and competence. Includes techniques for checking compass and sextants.

Manual of Sail Trim

Tells how to trim sails for all wind and sea conditions, whether beating, reaching or running. Tells how to trim sails for mark roundings, gybing, accelerating, slowing down. Required reading for all racers, with lessons for cruisers, too.

Kayaking the Maine Coast: A Paddler's Guide to Day Trips from Kittery to Cobscook, 2nd. Ed.

The most comprehensive resource for sea kayak trips along the entire Maine coast.Dorcas Miller explored every inch of Maine's rocky coast to produce what has become the indispensable resource for anyone who launches a kayak in Maine's coastal waters. In...

Six Frigates

The epic history if the founding of the American Navy and how a handful of bastards and outlaws fighting under a piece of striped bunting humbled the omnipotent Royal Navy. From the decision to build six heavy frigates through the war of 1812.